Surface as Metaphor with Anne Flash

In this process-oriented drawing/mixed media workshop, we will explore various methods and meanings connected to SURFACE ---- both practically and conceptually. Nonlinear narratives will be developed through selective procedures such as marking, rubbing, layering, erasing, scratching, smudging, staining, blotting, etc. Chance operations and time-mapping will be used as ways to generate composition. All sorts of 2-D images, including photographic and photocopier images will be considered fair game. A scanner and printer will be provided during the workshop, as well as various other toys and tools. Each participant can expect to take away an exciting set of work that pushes beyond his/her own conventions into new creative territory.

Anne Flash received her MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City and her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She taught at Trinity College in Hartford for four years, before moving to Cape Cod. In the 1990's, she was granted two residencies at Yaddo and one at the Millay Colony for the Arts. Flash has been teaching drawing at Cape Cod Community College for the past six years, and was an artist -in-residence at the college in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, Connecticut, and Provincetown and is in private and corporate collections throughout New England. She believes, as an artist and as a teacher, that drawing exists at the core of all art, and is therefore an essential practice for artists