Box as Portrait – Golnar Adili
August 12, 2019 - August 16, 2019
| $800
Box as Portrait – Golnar Adili
Dates: August 12-16, 2019
Studio: Bindery
Class limit: 4
Tuition: $750 members / $800 non-members
Lab fee: $75
In order to reserve your space in the class, we require a $300 deposit.
In this class, we will examine portraiture in the context of the box utilizing design, architectural thinking and book arts. We will cover different iterations of boxes depending on the content each participant is hoping to house and express. This could range from combinations such as an image of a face covering parts of a simple “shoe box” to more complex interpretations of portraiture such as embedding an object or a loved one’s piece of clothing in a clamshell or nesting boxes.
Initially we will use a simple solvent transfer technique to multiply the image in mind on various desirable papers to ultimately use to cover the box. In developing the appropriate home for our portrait we will use fundamental book arts elements such as hinges and the accordion, and some architecture concepts such as sheathing, scaffolding, and landscape. A mixed media approach is highly encouraged as we will experiment with encaustic, plaster rolls and collage.
Artist
Golnar Adili
Golnar Adili is an Iranian American artist, designer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Adili holds a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and has participated in residencies with the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts (Italy), Center for Book Arts (NYC), Smack Mellon (NY), Fine Arts Work Center (MA), MacDowell (NYC), Ucross Foundation for the Arts (Clearmont, WY), Lower East Side Printshop (NYC), Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace (NYC), among others. Her work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions organized by institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), The Cue Art Foundation (NYC), The Walters Art Museum (MD), and the Craft Contemporary (CA). She is the recipient of major grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NYFA, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2021, Adili was a finalist for the Jameel Prize, sponsored by the Victoria &Albert Museum and Art Jameel. Her artist books are in over 50 collections, including the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Walker Art Center, Yale University, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library.
