Description

Lecture - The Language of PaintingFabric as a Vehicle for Gesturew/Maggie SinerThursday, December 3, 20265:00 pm-7:30 pm


Maggie Siner, accomplished painter and inspiring teacher will lead you on a voyage into the inner world of the artist’s visual thinking focusing on drapery as an organizing structure and as a basis of gestural unity. Citing examples from great masterpieces, this slide lecture shows how paintings use drapery to create form, light, composition and gesture for expressive purposes. Siner’s ability to communicate about painting and her expertise provide a rare opportunity to look at great paintings from a creator's point of view. It is a fascinating analysis that will change the way you look at painting and open a deeper appreciation of art.

About the Instructor

Maggie Siner has over four decades of teaching experience in art schools, academies, universities and ateliers around the world. She exhibits her paintings, drawings and sculpture in Venice, Paris, London, New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Boston, etc., and her work is in hundreds of collections. She studied at Boston University (BFA 1973) and American University (MFA 1976) and spent much of her adult life living in France, Italy and China. Noted for an inspiring teaching style that is intelligent, structured, generous, stimulating and unique, she has taught at Xiamen University in China, Institute d'Universitès Americaines in France, the Washington Studio School, the Savannah College of Art and Design, American University, Lacoste School of the Arts in France, etc. See website: www.maggiesiner.com

This Lecture is also the introduction to the workshop.
*Lecture fee is included in Maggie's workshop fee. If you are signed up for her workshop, you are automatically enrolled in the lecture.

Instructor

Maggie Siner