Janus Collaborative Open House
Come join us for our Open House on May 19th 2012. More information below:
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Student, instructor, and guest comments on current exhibitions, studying at JCSA, and contemporary art.
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Stephen Perkins Workshop- Day 2
Another great day jam packed with a ton of information. After going over Weight Distribution and how it affects Gesture in a figure, Stephen showed us how he approaches sculpting a Life size foot. He spoke about a sequence of hierarchy and urged us to work from simple to complex forms.
Stephen Perkins Workshop- Day 1
The studio was full of excitement as we started a new week with Stephen Perkins. Many of us are still absorbing all of the information that was given to us last time Stephen was here. All of the students arrived early and ready to pick up right where we left off.
Student Work – drawings
In addition to this blog, we now have student work up on our website. The page is still being updated slowly, so check back frequently as we post more work up over the next two weeks. Thanks for viewing. In the meantime, here are some drawings.
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- Standing Female, 18 x 24
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- Head Study 18 x 24
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- Seated Male, 18 x 24
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- Standing Male, 18 by 24
See you in the fall!
With an exciting summer project and all the exhibitions in and around the city, we may be taking a break from our regular studio schedule but the training and learning never stops.
We’d like to thank everyone who attended our end-of-year celebration last week, as well as those who came and joined us during our evening talks and lectures during the regular school year. We’ll be blogging about exhibits, workshops, and summer sketching until we resume in the fall.
For those interested, Dennis Cheaney’s class will continue running this the summer. However, Open Studio sessions will be on break until September. Stay tuned for more news regarding our lecture series during the 2010-2011 school year.
See you in September!
Join us for a Lecture: Finding the Horizon
Head over to Janus Collaborative for a lecture led by painter, Treacy Ziegler, on Thursday, May 20th from 6pm-8pm.
Finding the Horizon
A talk focusing upon elevating visual perception to a truth whereby damaged vision does not exist, the ontological aspect of space and how this understanding led the artist to exhibit her paintings within maximum security prisons.
Sky Through a Transom, 47x46, polytych, oil on panel
For directions, click here.
Bio:
Treacy Ziegler has a MSW from University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She is represented by Gallery 71 in NYC, Chase Gallery in Boston, Odon Wagner Gallery in Toronto, Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA, and FAN Gallery in Philadelphia. This past year, she has been exhibiting her work in maximum security prisons and in September 2010, she will have a show at the Chase Gallery in connection with one of these prisons. For further information, please see her Chase Gallery webpage entitled; “Memory of Space.”
Anatomy for artists
Here are some of the drawings from the anatomy/dissection lab through our exciting collaboration with the Drexel University School of Medicine in Philadelphia this past fall.
Anatomical Cadaver Drawings, Marshal Jones
Life drawing, overlays, anatomy drawings - Liz Adams-Jones
Life drawings, overlays, anatomical drawings - Christopher LoPresti, Jayme del Rosario
Anatomical cadaver drawings, arm studies - Gus Storms
Figure drawing, overlays, anatomical studies - Whittnie Daniels, Geraldine Gilligan
Anatomical chart drawing, skull and anatomical cadaver drawings, arm study - Anatomy Instructor, Michael Grimaldi
Figure drawing and studies - Michael Grimaldi
The studies above analyze and cover not only anatomy but structural, tonal/compositional, surface topography and morphology as well as perspectival analyses.
To complement the work in the anatomy lab, we started our ecorché class this year with Stephen Perkins.
Ecorché - Sculpture Instructor, Stephen Perkins
Can’t wait until this following fall to continue our collaboration with the wonderful folks at Drexel School of Medicine! We’ll post more work in the fall concurrently with the class.
Our collection grows…
Slowly but surely. And now we have a foot!
wall o' life casts
Soon we’ll have a Janus Collaborative figure with 17, instead of two, heads!
Janus Collaborative Blog
A public forum for JCSA students, instructors, and guests to post views and pose questions on approaches to art education/training and contemporary art; and to discuss applying the knowledge of the past as a means towards understanding and expressing life as an artist today.