Somewhere I have Never Traveled Katelynn Mills + Child Workshop April 6th- May 18th Opening Reception: Saturday, April 6th 6-9pm Artist Talk and Art Workshop to be announced The Painter’s Room is proud to present “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled”, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Katelynn Mills + Child Workshop. Engaging with a highly generative mode of creating, Katelynn Mills has applied her systems theory, The Cybernetics of Painting, to her studio practice and approach to education. For this show, Somewhere I Have Never Traveled,” she takes images from the history of painting, and runs it through a system of organization in which the picture is divided into ~50 to 70 cells. That system is then run through a second ‘system’: children. Children contribute a strong element of indeterminacy and chance due to their wildly different interpretations of color and scale as they work on their respective cells. The final paintings, which take 1-3 months to complete by a workshop of 5-13 year-olds, are then assembled after many hours of mystery and happy confusion. Adding a sort of feedback loop to this exhibition, Mills will also be showing select closely observed drawings of her kindergartner’s paintings as well as other works made outside the workshop which have influenced, and been influenced, by the workshop pieces. Though the theory behind this project takes on a hard, critical edge, the viewer may not readily perceive it upon first viewing. It is through the poetic nature and “serious play” of the process of making these paintings that the ‘child-magic’ within each of us may be activated. Further, this project speaks to the significance of trusting in the unpredictability of the creative process. It requires an abundance of Good Faith for such young students to blindly follow the Teacher’s instruction: work very hard and accurately on a strange, abstract composition for months on end without any real perception of what all that focus will amount to. Similarly, it takes a great leap of faith for an instructor to lead a group of over 100 children in such a state of organized chaos. This project reveals the joy and beauty of traveling beyond the pre-determined. Santora Arts Building Basement 207 N Broadway Santa Ana CA 92701 The Painter's Room is run by IPA DTSA | IG: @thepaintersroom
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11/18/2019 02:08:17 am
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11/19/2019 03:13:22 am
This exhibition will surely show a magical world that no one has ever imagined. I have been into lots of exhibitions before and I have to say that the paintings displayed on those events never failed to amaze and make me fall in love with arts even deeper. I have actually dreamed of becoming good with arts specifically with painting because I am no good with words. I wanted to see what else I can do to be able to express my feelings since words seem to be not enough for me at all. It's a good thing that I was able to realize this passion that I want to pursure earlier than I expected because at least I can do something about it. I am still strugling though but I know that as long as I have the determination to achieve whatever I want, then nothing will surelly be impossible.
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4/27/2020 06:16:16 am
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