Workshop | Portrait Painting in Chuck Close Method 2-Day

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In this two day workshop, you will learn how to format the portrait composition, mix colors, and create an abstracted portrait using the Chuck Close method! Chuck Close works with ideas of color, scale and form in his paintings that can create an abstract painting.

Attendees must attend both dates. Attendees must bring portrait image that they would like to paint.

• Friday, July18th, 10:30AM - 12:30PM
• Saturday, July 19th, 10:30AM - 12:30PM

Material: Acrylic paint on canvas

Instructor Biography

Ma Nong

As a Taiwanese born in Korea, I moved to South Florida in 2013. We encountered strangeness and difference at every turn, but the sunlight, sky, and green nature of the subtropical culture always gave me warm inspiration. I have lived in South Florida for a decade now compressing and symbolizing this into color-rich cubes representing home, the strangeness of being different from my native country, and the process of adapting. Gradually, I developed a series of portraits exploring the signifiers of human nature. Humanoid figures are portrayed as children’s dolls with exaggerated heads and smaller torsos and are centered and anchored as if trying to root themselves into the frame. They reflect child-like vulnerability where the feelings of dread, loneliness, and weakness to the familiar/unfamiliar world are present. Dimensional crystalline shapes simultaneously create and break the form; symbolizing complex units that both comprise and undermine identity. Color is bold and convincing, resembling that of nationality, yet it doesn’t reveal the true origin of the figure. In this process of seeing and feeling all my surrounding environments, large puzzles are put together one by one, and these experiences are fused and harmonized in one complete work.

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