Wednesday, February 5th
6 pm
$20

LECTURE  - Simplicity & Complexity: Finding Connections and Ordering Chaos

This 1.5 hour lecture provides an introduction to the workshop. Students in the workshop do not need to register! Students have reserved seats in the first 2 rows.

Maggie Siner, accomplished painter and inspiring teacher will lead you on a voyage into the inner world of the artist’s visual thinking.  With a slide presentation she explores how great paintings use form, space, light and color for expressive purposes, how they use rhythm and tension to organize a complex set-up, how they find drama in a simple object, and how they create a meaningful composition out of random objects. 

Her ability to communicate about painting and her expertise provide a rare opportunity to look at great paintings from a creators point of view.  It is a fascinating analysis that will change the way you look at painting and open a deeper appreciation of art.

About the Instructor

Maggie Siner has over three decades of teaching experience in art schools, academies, universities and ateliers around the world.   She exhibits her paintings, drawings and sculpture in Venice, Paris, London, New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Boston, etc., and her work is in hundreds of collections.  She studied at Boston University (BFA 1973) and American University (MFA 1976) and spent much of her adult life living in France, Italy and China.   Noted for a lively teaching style that is intelligent, structured, generous, stimulating and unique, she has taught at Xiamen University in China, Institute d'Universitès Americaines in France, the Washington Studio School, the Savannah College of Art and Design, American University, Lacoste School of the Arts in France, etc.  See website: www.maggiesiner.com