Events | ArtTalk Series
ArtTalk Series
Second Thursdays, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Gage Academy, 1501 10th Ave. E, Seattle
Geo Studio, Room 304, Third Floor
Gage Artistic Director, Gary Faigin, facilitates a monthly group discussion about the work of contemporary figurative artists. He interviews artists about their intentions, process and methods. Come and explore your reactions to the work, and listen to the reactions of others. The public is invited to these FREE events.
Past guests have included Michael Brophy, Fay Jones, Ann Gale, Jeffrey Simmons, Dan Webb and Francesca Sundsten among many others.
(pictured at right: Casanova by Francesca Sundsten, 2008 guest lecturer)
Susan Bennerstrom
October 14, 2010
Bellingham artist Susan Bennerstrom is known for her dramatic, theatrically lit landscapes and interiors, subjects that she has explored for nearly three decades. We talk to her about her choices of subject matter and viewpoint, and how much she does or does not depart from the particularities of her motif. We also explore her reasons for her transition from chalk pastel to oil pastel, and her current preferred media — oil paint — and how it has affected the resulting images.
Conciergerie, by Susan Bennerstrom
Kurt Solmssen
November 11, 2010
Kurt Solmssen is one of the most accomplished landscape artists working in the Northwest. His bold, painterly descriptions of his rural surroundings and domestic life on a remote stretch of Puget Sound are notable for both their intense color and economy of means. We talk to Solmssen about his compositional ideas, use of paint and strategies of simplification, as well as his tactics for dealing with the many challenges of outdoor subject matter.
Yellow Boat Evening, by Kurt Solmssen
