All Griffin Art Projects, in collaboration with Artists for Kids, is proud to host KNOWN TO US, a two-day exhibition featuring the oil painting portraits by 25 North Vancouver high school students made under the mentorship and guidance of contemporary painter Lacey Jane Wilburn. Lacey Jane was this year’s recipient of Griffin’s Emily Carr University Education & Outreach Fellowship-–an award reserved for ECUAD’s MFA recent graduates. Most notable for her cinematic renderings of domestic space that undulate between gesture and realism on canvas, Lacey Jane worked with students from Artists for Kids’ Studio Art Academy over the course of three sessions, facilitating artmaking workshops and a studio visit. While the students’ first instinct exploring portraiture during the workshop was to portray public figures, they were given the prompt to instead “paint a person in your life”. Reframing the gaze to see through a familial lens, students furthered their painting skills while deepening the spatial understanding of the relationships they hold with the subjects in their work. The portraits in the exhibition are of siblings, parents, dear friends, or self-portraits. This intimacy creates an increased necessity in crafting a representation of these individuals to convey the emotions and memories that […]
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