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Instructor: David Holzman
Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Ages: 16+
Members: $54
Non-Members: $60
Description:
Learn how to design and carve a basswood sculpture by hand using relief carving techniques from David Holzman, an artist and educator who applies this approach to sculpture extensively in his own work. Open to all levels, this workshop focuses on the carving procedure and safe implementation of small chisels, gouges, and knives. Throughout this process, you will gain a deeper understanding of reductive artmaking, in which images appear to rise out of a flat surface by selectively removing material. With an open subject matter for sculpting, participants are encouraged to bring any ideas and sketches to use for this project.
Materials:
Provided by Instructor for a $5 materials fee (payable to the instructor):
Basswood (participants receive one piece measuring 12" x 12" x 1")
Set of carving tools (lent for use during the workshop)
Provided by participant:
Kevlar gloves (required for participation)
Amazon link to Kelvar Gloves $7.00 - $8.00
Reference images, sketches or designs (optional)
Instructor Bio:
David Holzman has recently retired from public school teaching after 34 years with the Simsbury Public Schools and Central Connecticut State University. Having studied at Hartford Art School and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Holzman developed a studio practice that integrates painting, printmaking, and sculpture in a converted garage near the banks of the Farmington River in Avon, CT, where he and his wife raised a family. His artistic practice began in New York as a teenager in love with the museums. His discovery of the work of Frans Masereel in the late seventies led to the woodcut novel tradition within he has worked ever since. Holzman has produced several books in the story-without-words format including “The Dolphin Boy,” “The Man with the Big Head,” “Daphne Returned,” “Torah for the Eyes,” and “On the Fence”. His work was published in Art Spiegelman's RAW comics anthology as well as Zero from Seattle and he was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. His work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dayton Art Institute, and the Racine Art Museum. In his current work of the last ten years known as The Book of Umm, Holzman seeks to revitalize the surrealist practice of automatic drawing as a wellspring of visual energy in a series of gouache paintings. Simultaneously, he has imagined a monumental approach to carved relief sculpture that deploys the automatic process to the spontaneous fabrication of imagery in architectural settings. At this writing, Holzman is involved in printing an edition of his latest book, “A Slice of Pizza in Kramatorsk,” available in Fall 2024.
Instructor website: https://davidholzmanart.com/home.html
* All workshops are held at the Five Points Art Center, 855 University Drive
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