4 session 2-hour workshop | $200 | @Lista Studios
“Paintbrush Possibilities with Catie Dillon”
Ages 12-18
What You Will Learn:
- Experimentation and Technique: Discover a variety of acrylic application techniques using unconventional materials (like bubble wrap, toothbrushes, sponges, and kitchen tools). You will create “keys” or reference sheets for future projects.
- Landscape Re-imagined: Use your new skills and unique tools to re-create a small landscape painting, challenging yourself to render elements like clouds and trees without a traditional brush.
- Artistic Inspiration: Study the work of prominent painters like Helen Frankenthaler, Gerhard Richter, Lucio Fontana, and Kazuo Shiraga to understand how they employ different tools and techniques in their art.
- Tool Creation: Get hands-on by making your own unique painting tools out of recycled and accessible materials.
- Final Abstract Project: Create a final abstract painting using your newly crafted handmade tools, exploring the possibilities of texture and application.
Below are suggested materials for this workshop. You do not need to purchase everything on this list as some will be available. To purchase materials directly through Lista, please contact mikayla@listastudios.com
- acrylic paint
- palettes (can be plastic plates, palette paper)
- cups for water
- a few paint brushes (for color mixing purposes)
- recycled materials and other cheap and accessible sculptural materials (cardboard boxes, bubble wrap, foam, plastic food containers, sponges, popsicle sticks, tooth pics, q-tips, tinfoil, plastic wrap, pingpong balls, string, yarn, wire, etc)
- scissors and/or box cutters
- glue (elmers glue and hot glue)
- mixed media paper or acrylic paper
- canvases
Catie Dillon is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She makes large-scale abstract paintings about movement, the body, and interconnectedness. Through a process of layering and scraping away paint, Dillon discovers and uncovers spiraling lines. These sweeping gestures, made with a brush and a squeegee, often reference forms and networks found within the natural world.
Dillon was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received her BFA from Penn State University, and her MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, Ohio and Woskob Family Gallery in State College, PA. Dillon has also been featured in recent group exhibitions at Zepster Gallery (NYC), GG and POP Institute (NYC), Thierry Goldberg Gallery (NYC), Deanna Evans Projects (NYC), ChaShaMa (NYC), Tanya Weddemire Gallery (NYC), Georgetown College (KY) and elsewhere. She has been an artist-in-residence at Open Wabi Residency in Fredericktown, Ohio, Fish Factory Residency in Stodvarfjordur, Iceland, PADA Studios in Barreiro, Portugal, Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York, ProjectArt Residency in Brooklyn, New York, and Art on the Block in New York, New York. Dillon has instructed art at The Center for Arts and Crafts in State College, Pennsylvania, The Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York.