Structure and Imagery

J effrey Morabito will be teaching a Still-Life Workshop: The Everyday Object Wednesday Aug 16, 2019  6:30 - 8:30 pm Cost: $85 per session Limited to six participants Simply Fine Workshop 526 West 26th Street Studio 710 New York, NY 10001 For more information and to sign up inquire at:  contact@simplyfineworkshop.com   to sign up. About the workshop : Paint a still-life with traditional techniques but through a contemporary lens. Pictorial structure, composition, and color will be focused upon while close-looking and improvising will be equally emphasized. Visual tools explored will be: Illusionism, Perspective, Horizon Line, Conceptual 3-D Space, Shape & Color Hierarchy, and Site-measuring. Students are encouraged to bring in their own “everyday object” or paint an object provided. Open to painters of all levels, and to acrylic/oil painters who want to broaden their skills and concepts. No experience necessary — Beginners welcome! ...

Fiona Halse, Afon, 2019, mixed media on canvas, 100x100 cm White on White: Anna Caione & Fiona Halse August 28 - September 1, 2019 West End Art Space 137 Adderley Street West Melbourne VIC 3003 Australia From the Press Release : The exhibition ‘White on White’ explores the philosophical, poetic associations of the colour white through the work of Melbourne artists Anna Caione and Fiona Halse. Caione and Halse express the synergies and divergences in their approach to abstraction through the process of surface manipulation and gestural expression. Their shared preference for the colour white amalgamates their works yet each artist loads the neutrality of the hue with a diversity of personal meaning that gives rise to a range of intriguing interpretative possibilities. White is considered by some to be a non-colour, yet its transformational qualities continue to fascinate contemporary artists. White can be purely suggestive or a dominant force informing the intrin...