Instructor: Lisa Pressman
This intermediate to advanced encaustic workshop expands on the use of painting with encaustic for participants. Pressman will guide students in advanced techniques to help them create works that are rich in layers and transparency. Color application, methods of fusing, mark making, pigment sticks, pastels, graphite, and collage will be covered. Experimentation is encouraged and will be combined with art fundamentals, including editing and content. The emphasis is on learning and developing a personal language and vision. Activities will include exercises, informal group discussion, working in a series and individual support. Some experience with encaustic medium is strongly suggested. Click here to download the class materials list.
This class meets every Thursday for four weeks, from October 8-29. The first three classes meet from 1-2:30 pm; the last class meets from 1-2 pm. Scroll down to register for the class.
Lisa Pressman’s career as an artist has been marked by exploration of the expressive potential of a variety of mediums, among them oil, encaustic, cold wax, and mixed-media collage. Her work is abstract, conceptually based, and process-driven, featuring marks, forms, colors and patterns that are evocative rather than descriptive.
A New Jersey native, Lisa developed rich visual imagination at an early age. Her father owned a lumberyard and her mother was an actress, artist, and antiques dealer. Lisa grew up surrounded by building materials and immersed in multiple forms of cultural expression that nurtured her curiosity and aesthetic sensibility. A trip to Israel when she was 12 revealed to her that the world is filled with a variety of visual images, textures and colors that contrasted sharply with her previous experiences. This recognition of her own visual acuity was the defining moment when she realized she was going to become an artist.
Lisa received her Bachelor of Arts degree in fine art from Douglass College at Rutgers University, with an emphasis in ceramics and sculpture, in 1979. As a graduate student she changed her emphasis to painting, and in 1981 was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Bard College. Since then she has exhibited regionally and nationally in solo and group exhibitions, and her work is held in numerous private and public collections. Her work is represented by Susan Eley Fine Arts in New York, Addington Gallery in Chicago, and The Gallery of Fine Arts in Telluride, Colorado. Most recently, Lisa has been awarded a solo exhibition at the Mulvane Art Museum in Topeka, Kansas.