Painting Workshop with Vincent Pomilio
- When
- Wednesday, November 11, 20264:30 PM – 6:30 PM CSTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
- Where
- The Curb CenterOpen in Maps
- Hosted by
- Arts and Sciences: Beyond The Core
Reminders arrive as notifications from the NextToU iPhone app. Get the app
About
NOTE: This event is only open to students in the CORE class Being Human, Encountering Others. If you are not taking Being Human, please see an alternate date HERE.
Join us at the Curb Center for a hands-on painting workshop led by Vincent Pomilio, abstract landscape painter and featured artist in the Curb Center’s exhibition, Land Shapes. Pomilio will introduce participants to his signature technique using Venetian plaster and pigments on and pre-primed wood panels. Materials and lunch will be provided.
Vincent Pomilio’s Artist Statement:
I primarily work in all painting media, on canvas, paper, or wooden panel. For the past ten years my work has been largely abstract, always using the Natural World as my guide. The image evolves through a series of layers, each one rubbed, sanded, or burnished with tools. The image then reveals itself and I intuitively know when to bring it to completion. Some of my work has a strong landscape feeling as in “Between The River and The Sky.” I always encourage the viewer to find recognizable shapes and images in my work. “If you see it, it is there”. Most of these paintings have an all-over feeling as if these self-organizing systems continue off the picture plane. One shape flows from another, and then another, until there is a pulsating energy of interacting elements. Worlds of refined, chaotic movement are animated by color.
I usually start with an acrylic base and drawing tools, pencil, wax crayon, ink etc. I also use a Kolcaustico plaster with marble dust and pigments in layers. As it is drying I carve into it and paint into with pigment or water-based paint and start to build up the surface. I do as much carving as painting. Nothing is collaged onto the painting unless I specify collage as part of the material. A lot of the shapes are created with tape and the material is troweled onto the surface. After it is all said and done I rub a refined beeswax into it and burnish the surface to bring up all the detail and seal the surface. It acts as a glaze as well and makes it resistant to moisture. All materials are permanent.