Painting the Industrial Landscape - Charlie Hunter

July 18-19, 2009
Tuition: $300
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Charlie Hunter loves to paint Rusting American Infrastructure. And there’s plenty of it in Bellows Falls, VT. Join him for a fun, energetic weekend of plein-aire painting of neglected boxcars, dilapidated power stations, disused supply sheds and seriously decrepit gas stations (he knows where all the best ones are). Hunter uses a limited palate of water-mixable oil paints in thin washes to create his distinctive monochromatic paintings. During this class, he’ll share his favorite tricks of the trade, though participants are welcome to cheerfully ignore them all.

“The deliberate thinness of the paint (in Hunter’s work) urges us to recognize the fragility of the images in our own imaginations... these are not casual glances, they are long hard stares, a visual wrestling match, pinning an image securely into archetypal resonance.” -Eric Aho

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Hunter is the recipient of the Canson-Talens Grand Prize for pastels, an Orton Foundation “Art of Action” grant and has work in the 2009 “Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered” touring exhibition. He shows in galleries and museums around the Northeast. Samples of Charlie Hunter’s work are visible at http://www.hunter-studio.com