VMA Lecture: “Painting, Power & Presence – A Look at the Painting Journey”
Painting, Power & Presence: A Look at the Painting Journey
JORDAN WOLFSON (Visiting Master Artist, Painting)
Wednesday, December 13
6:00-7:30 pm on ZOOM*
FREE Virtual Lecture
*Must register for the zoom meeting by clicking “Register For Event” button on the right hand side
What are the major stages of the Painting Journey, and a life lived in paint? What are the challenges of each stage? What are some of the confusions? Jordan Wolfson will talk through the stages, looking at works of great Modern and Contemporary painters, and their core concerns. Perhaps most importantly, we’ll talk about the essential experience of Presence in Painting; what is it, how does it arrive, and its urgent invitation for us today. In addition, within the context of the talk Jordan will provide a demo in abstract paint handling, in connection with his upcoming workshop, Abstraction: Landscape as Source.
Organizer
Jordan Wolfson was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated with an MFA from Yale School of Art in 1991. Exhibiting both nationally and internationally, Wolfson’s work is represented in permanent collections worldwide, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the James T. Dyke Collection, and the Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art in Ireland. Wolfson has received numerous awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, and a Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and the Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ireland.
In his recurring explorations of form, space, and light, Wolfson has been investigating the relationships between perception, mark, and Consciousness. This has led to his experience of painting as a life practice and a means for fundamental understanding.
Jordan Wolfson currently lives in Longmont, Colorado, co-parenting his two daughters, and maintains a studio in North Boulder.
