This drawing course replaces the pencil with the knife. On a theoretical level, it will examine the world of printed media in detail and then re-appropriate that media. While it starts with computer-based commercial imagery it returns the material to the hand and mind of the artist. We will begin with décollage technique, which is the removal of information from an existing source, and use it to create new collage works. Students will have very liberal guidelines as to what kind of images to make, only that they should compile as many images as possible. Class discussions focus on text and image, our mediated environment and hand skills. An exciting break for the working professional to return to art as an intellectually stimulating hand practice, it is also an entertaining exercise in artmaking for the part-time artist both in practice and as an introduction to higher level critical thought.
Note: Please bring an X-Acto knife, a ruler and a magazine (staple bound) to the first session.