Newark Art Council workshop: Workshop: SElf-portrait ABSTRACT drawing Visual Laboratory From automatic drawing and Conceptual Maps

NEWARK ART COUNCIL OPEN DOORS

Curated by Donna Rae Kessinger

Workshop: SElf-portrait ABSTRACT drawing

Visual Laboratory From automatic drawing and Conceptual Maps

teached by MA.Rodolfo Rojas-Rocha

Rodolfo Rojas-Rocha (1968) was raised in Costa Rica. He has a BFA in Advertising Design from Veritas University. Also, he has a BFA (1997) and License (1999) in Drawing and Painting from the University of Costa Rica and a MFA(2006) in Art Theory and Criticism from University of Costa Rica. Rojas-Rocha has worked as an painter and designer for fourteen years, and teach Drawing, Lettering, Presentation Techniques and History of Design at Veritas University, where he has worked for six years until now.

Rojas-Rocha has 18 solo shows an more than 80 national and international exhibitions (New York, Cartagena, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador among other countries),serves on the Ministry of Education as art education consultant. As Visual Studies researcher has given lectures at The Art Museum MARTE (El Salvador), ADAPES (El Salvador Fine Artists Association),Ganexa University, Panama and University of Panama. He is a member ofWardnasse Gallery, New York and Edu Art Gallery, Panama City, Gallery Aferro, Newark. He has won First Place in “University Environment Contest” UCR (1994), Mississippi University, Interuniversity Biennale Contest and others recognitions.

His fine art works consist of a wide variety of painting techniques, drawing, oil, acrylic and mixed media. His work is based on non-linear drawing pattern, microscopic a macroscopic world, and ideological aspects of the costarrican mythological and hybridized culture. It is an approach to the contemporary artistic image related with nature and rhizomatous links.

Introducction

Drawing is a personal practice used as a vehicle for developing visual awareness; a combination of seeing, thinking, and planning that is relevant to all art disciplines. This practice not only represents the visible, but also examines and realizes ideas and memories.

Drawing as a process and product has the ability to communicate a wide variety of observations via traces of mental processing. Drawn images, on their own or supported by verbal and visual research, have the capacity to present ideas in a way that allows for broader concepts to be read at a glance and/ or in depth. Through the development of a personal visual vocabulary form the general to the specific this workshop will encourage students to investigate and develop the visual formulation of ideas in a multitude of drawn forms. Development of Individual imagery from nature and family memories and concepts through experimentation with varying methods of making, materials, and modes of presentation (performance, and conceptual maps is essential.

This workshop emphasizes an exploration of automatic and surreal ideas, materials and processes. Materials will range from the familiar to the unexpected and you will be encouraged to fully explore specific properties in your own way. Drawings begin from the visual recording of designated objects but you may continue in any direction of interest. Work produced can be either figurative or abstract. As the workshop progresses, we will expand the options for surface, mark, and meaning until the question has to be asked "But Is It a self portrait Drawing?"

Objetives

• To draw a self-portrait drawing collective mural made from memory background and ideas of nature.
• To draw without conscious aesthetic or self-censorship.

• To belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations.

Methodology

This course is experimental and flexible in format; the shape depends in large part upon the wishes and needs of the students. Drawing as an artistic function will be expansively defined.

1. Brainstorming and conceptual maps.
2. Ideas selection.
3. Composition, drawing and mural drawing.
4. Technique and working progress drawing.
5. Bibliography

1. Edwards, B. (1994)Aprender a dibujar con el lado derecho del cerebro. Curso para aumentar la creatividad y la confianza artística. España: Urano..

2. Juan José Gómez Molina y otros autores(2001). El manual de dibujo. Estrategias de su enseñanza en el siglo XX. España: Cátedra.

3. Gómez, Molina Juan José. (1999)Las lecciones del dibujo. España: Cátedra.

4. Gómez, Molina Juan José. (1999)Estrategias del dibujo en el arte contemporáneo. (2002). España: Cátedra.

5. Hanks, Kurt, Bellinston, Larry. (1995).El dibujo. La imagen como medio de comunicación. México: Trillas.

6. Kaupelis, Robert. (1992) Experimental Drawing. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications.

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