Opening Cocktail Party with Lisa Pressman: July 30, 2025
When: July 31 - August 3, 2025
Where: UpMarket Gallery, 68 N. Market Street, Asheville, NC
Cost: $875
Opening Cocktail Party: Time coming soon | July 30, 2025
Class Dates: Times coming soon| Thursday, July 31 – Sunday, August 3, 2025
In-Person Classes at Upmarket Gallery (Refreshments and catered lunch included daily)
Cost: $875 – Open to 12 students
This four day workshop is based on prompts and exercises to get to the core of personal meaning. The focus is on exploration, intuition, and pushing out of your comfort zone. We will be experimenting with a variety of media. Directives include formal elements such as line, shape, space, color, and conceptual ideas with fast-paced timing based on discovery rather than finished products. The first four days will be focused on the making. The fifth day will involve the artists curating and installing their work in the studio. That is when the group gets to discover interests, patterns and ideas that have emerged in the process. During class time, participants will receive directions, demonstrations, and cues to populate many works and to let go of the “precious” mentality. The goal is for each participant to work on multiple pieces. refine and embellish their pieces. This workshop allows artists to immerse themselves in the process to experiment with different techniques like layering, excavating, collaging and more.
By the end of this workshop, participants will have deepened their understanding of their creative process and may have a clearer sense of what resonates with them artistically.
R&F Handmade Paints will sponsor the workshop with RF Pigment Sticks
Payments, cancellations, transfers, and refunds:
The class cost is $875. There are currently 12 out of 12 available spaces for this class.
How to Register? Pay securely online with your credit card here.
If YOU have to cancel: Refunds are not available unless we can rebook your place. Please note that the closer we get to the event, the less likely we will be able to find someone to replace you.
• If YOU cancel, but we can refill your spot: You will be refunded everything you have paid minus a $50 administrative fee.
• If WE have to cancel: We will refund everything you have paid.
If you have any questions regarding any workshop, call 828-998-4898 or contact us directly.
Lisa Pressman’s artistic career is marked by exploration: testing the boundaries of the expressive potential latent in a variety of mediums, among them oil, encaustic, cold wax, and mixed-media collage. Her work is abstract, conceptually based, and process-driven. Lisa’s artworks feature marks, forms, colors and patterns that are evocative rather than overt.
Lisa received her BA, Fine Art from Douglass College from Rutgers University, with an emphasis in ceramics and sculpture. As a graduate student she changed her emphasis from sculpture to painting, receiving her MFA in Painting from Bard College. Since then she has exhibited regionally and nationally in solo and group exhibitions at spaces such as the Cape Cod Museum of Art,(Dennis MA) The Holter Museum of Art (Helena, MT,) and Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ ) and her work is held in numerous private and public collections. Her work is represented by Susan Eley Fine Arts (New York, NY,) Addington Gallery (Chicago, IL) and Slate Gallery (Telluride, Colorado.) The artist recently had two solo exhibitions in New York City. One at Susan Eley Fine Art in NYC 2022 and the other at The Painting Center, NY, NY, 2023.
A highly respected arts educator, Lisa maintains a vigorous teaching program. She worked on the faculty of the former Art Institute of NY, and served as a visiting professor at Pratt Institute and other universities. She has taught workshops in France, Mexico, Italy and the US. Lisa is renowned for her knowledge of encaustic, cold wax processes, concept-based courses, and she presents annually at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA. She is a core instructor for R&F Handmade Paints. As a mentor, she facilitates each artist’s voice during individual sessions to grasp the source of what these artists are seeking to capture in their artistic vision.
