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Workshops
August 15-18 (4 days, Mon-Thurs)-Early bird Fee $500 ($550 after Feb. 28)
TIKO KERR ~ In Abstract Terms: Collage/Acrylic/Oil
About the workshop
Medium: Collage; includes all media
Levels: beginners to intermediate
My aim would be to explore the language of abstraction.
I’d like to challenge people who already have already developed their rendering skills so that they can experience more intuitive and improvisational methods of composition and offer direction to those who are at earlier stages of their development as well.
The format of the lessons would be roughly:
Monday AM: introduction and conversation
Monday PM: Paper collage (representational / figuration)
Tuesday AM: Paper collage (abstraction)
Tuesday PM: Translating collage into acrylic painting
Wednesday AM: Transitioning from acrylic to oil painting
Wednesday PM: Exploring canvas collage
Thursday AM: Painting
Thursday PM: Painting continued and critique.
I’d also like to offer to the students any media that they’d prefer to work in; this could also include drawing, pastels etc.
And yes since collage has become fundamental to my practice, it will be predominant in my work.
Supplies list
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About the artist
Tiko Kerr was born (1953) in Alberta where he received his BSc in Biology from the University of Calgary.
His background in science has had a profound influence on his understanding of the physical ramifications of his artistic practice.
From his early examination of the changing urban landscape and through his dramatic pivot into exploring abstract composition in paper collage and painting, Tiko Kerr’s three decade long practice is constantly in flux.
It has become a fundamentally reductive process, refining form to its most essential and considering how compositional affinities are created as a result of the interplay between intention and chance.
His work is about perception and the ways that the human visual system functions to interpret the world.
Materiality instigates new methods of working and most recently Kerr has embraced plexiglass as a significant medium, elevating the utilitarian material from a transparent protective barrier into a window into our extraordinary contemporary COVID moment.
Kerr presently lives and works in Vancouver.
His practice also has included theatre and ballet design, performance, art direction in documentary filmmaking, murals as well as teaching and community advocacy.
He is represented by Monica Reyes Gallery in Vancouver.
On the web
Visit the artist’s web site at: tikokerr.com
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Tiko Kerr ~ The Wrath of Zeus
Tiko Kerr ~ Before the Inferno I Had a Light Heart
Tiko Kerr ~ A Secret Garden
Tiko Kerr ~ Sea of Tranquility
Tiko Kerr ~ Untitled Face Collage
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