Untitled (Metaesquema), 1958
Hélio Oiticica. The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family.
Join us for a sketching program inspired by Contemporary Drawings from the Stenn Family Collection, an exhibition of works on paper by artists linked to Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, and Post-Minimalism.
Across these varied works, one theme recurs: an emphasis on shape. In pieces like Hélio Oiticica’s Untitled (Metaesquema) (1958) and Wayne Thiebaud’s Cake Slices (1963), flat, clearly defined shapes become the basic units of composition.
In this session of Weekday Studio, we’ll explore how these contemporary artists use shape to structure space before experimenting with similar strategies to make our own drawings.
about the teaching artist
Cameron Mankin makes drawings, prints, and artist’s books that investigate and retool found media. He breaks down security camera footage, cracked CDs, and old textbooks into their component parts and collages them together into exploded arrangements,cracking the surface of the increasingly streamlined media systems we interact with daily. Mankin teaches in the Media Arts and Design program at the University of Chicago.
