Explore the relationship between painting & movement as acts of creative expression utilizing the artist’s body in this 4-week class. Using acrylic paint, watercolor, canvas, & paper, participants will discover how to combine motion & painting into a single artwork. Connections will be made to performance documentation works & action paintings in the Denver Art Museum collection through gallery visits & digital images.

Each class will begin with a discussion of one action painting (Elaine de Kooning’s Bullfight) or one performance documentation work (Ana Teresa Fernández’s Erasure 4) that inspires full body gestures like jumping, spinning, & dancing. The chosen artwork will serve as the gateway into a demonstration of techniques & activities, including motion painting prompts, painting while moving, & group reflections on the traces of movement seen in paintings.