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Speaker: Ellen Garvens and Jim Phalen (I Tatti)
This Thursday Seminar will feature two short presentations by I Tatti’s current Artists in Residence. Each artist will give a 20–25 minute presentation of their recent and ongoing work
Ellen Garvens – Holding Unsteady
Ellen Garven’s work pushes photography into the realms of drawing, sculpture, and disability studies. She creates installations that are then photographed. Using string, paper, cardboard, and other materials, these images refer to calligraphy, cross hatching, mark-making, and other drawing techniques, with the desire to liberate the lines from the confines of two-dimensional space. She is interested in creating visualizations of uncertainty and loss, highlighting the fleetingness of lived experience. In this seminar, Garvens will discuss her current project that explores the rural and urban environment around Florence. She will discuss her working process, including projects developed at I Tatti, new work in progress, and earlier series that have led to this body of work.
Jim Phalen – Painting: Process, Revision and Transparency
With the rigors of naturalistic portrait painting as his subject and the Rondanini Pieta as his polestar, Jim Phalen is more interested in revealing the process of painting than creating a so called ‘finished work’. His inspiration comes out of drawings and unfinished or inadvertently transparent paintings (as seen in many Velasquez works). This seminar will explore the role of change and revision in painting—from its perception as a necessary evil to its embrace as a central, visible process. Phalen will present examples from four decades of his work, concluding with a detailed look at the evolution of a single painting from start to near completion.
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