Image & Text workshop with artist Simon Glass
Would you like to learn more about using image and text in your art practice? This 2-day workshop, held over two Wednesdays in March offers advanced critical discussion and feedback facilitated by accomplished Toronto-based artist, Simon Glass.
In week one of this workshop, participants will discuss some of the issues related to representation in both language and photography. Through facilitated discussion of a short text by J.L. Borges, images and texts by photographers both contemporary and historical, and a creative writing exercise, participants will gain insight and inspiration for their own image and text art projects. In week two, participants will share their works and insights with each other. Please bring: 6-8 printed images + laptop, tablet, or notebook and pen.
Instructor:
Simon Glass is an artist and educator based in Toronto. In his artistic practice archival and original photographic imagery is combined with mystical, biblical and liturgical Hebrew. Recently, his work has gravitated toward installation and examines prophecy in the context of the possibilities and impossibilities of translation, the philosophy of language and the conflation of future and past.
Glass graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1983 where he trained as a photographer and visual artist. He completed an M.A. in Media and Communication at the European Graduate School in 2005.
Glass’ work has been exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout Canada and internationally. He is the recipient of numerous awards from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Glass is an Associate Professor at OCAD University, currently on administrative leave. He will return to teaching photography and cross disciplinary art in the fall of 2015. http://www.simonglass.ca/
Week 1: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 6 to 9 pm
Week 2: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 - 6 to 9 pm
$95 General Public / $85 G44 members
Location:
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, #120 - 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto, ON
Limited to 8 participants.
Sign up now:
416-979-3941 ext. 2
