When: Sept 9-11, 2025, 9 AM - 5 PM
Where: UpMarket Gallery, 68 N. Market Street, Asheville, NC
Cost: $1100 | 11 out of 12 Spots Remaining
When: 9 – 5 PM | Sep 9-11, 2026
In-Person Classes at Upmarket Gallery
Cost: $1100 – Open to 12 students | 11 Spots Remaining
Expand your practice through the art of working in sequence. In this workshop, we use the Abstraction by Design (AbD) method to explore multiple series-based formats across connected panels. The first challenge is yours: choose your format. Will you create sets of diptychs or triptychs? Maybe a 4-panel series or commit to a full 8-panel linear installation? It’s your call, with the goal of creating cohesive series in tailored formats using the Abstraction by Design method of layering paint and collage, and rebuilding surfaces. You’ll push each format to its limits. Along the way, you’ll explore rhythm, balance, and color, discovering how panels speak to one another in sequence.
Abstraction by Design (AbD) is a mixed media method rooted in the layered interplay of paper and paint applied directly to panel surfaces. Through simultaneous application, artists create a foundation that explores sanding, scraping, saturating, peeling, collaging, and repainting, often in repeated cycles. This process encourages experimentation and embraces unpredictability. Wet and dry techniques are often used side-by-side, allowing for dynamic, textured surfaces to emerge organically.
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Payments, cancellations, transfers, and refunds:
The class cost is $1100.
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.
I am a mixed media abstract artist living and working in Northern California. Largely self-taught, I did not emerge on the art scene in a conventional fashion. My career has crisscrossed the world of applied arts and visual expression and my work has evolved over the last two decades, shaped directly by a close engagement with material and process, and a focus on abstraction and design.
My experience as a teaching artist over the last eight years have inspired and deepened my appreciation for creative community and collaboration. I am represented by several galleries in the US and Canada.
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
-Leonard Cohen
As a self-taught artist these words have provided me with both a launching pad and a landing site in pursuit of my work. Awareness of the light has assisted me in recognizing my aesthetic and teaching skills. Sensitivity to the light has guided me in choosing the paths presented before me.
