About the Workshop
Looking closely at the work of contemporary painters, we’ll explore the creation of pictures that utilize place, weather, pathways, relationships, and space as organizing principles for content and composition. The goal of this workshop is to explore one’s deep location (using landscape, interior, still life, portraiture, figurative work, or abstraction) and to create a small body of new artwork. The course is open to artists of all levels, working in any paint, collage or drawing medium. The approach to the workshop will be a balance of daily group discussions and individual meetings with the instructor. We will look at the work of contemporary artists together, make paintings during studio time, and talk about the work we’re making in a final review.
Refer to the Materials List for the materials students should bring to the workshop.
Workshop-Materials-List-Pete-Hocking.pdfAbout the Instructor
Pete Hocking is a visual artist, writer and teacher based on Cape Cod. In addition to being represented by AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet, he’s recently shown with BBLG Gallery on Long Island, the Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI, The Dorado Project in Jersey City, NJ, the Plough Gallery in Tifton, GA, and at VeeVee in Boston, MA. In May 2019 he was an artist-in-residence at the Hawthorne Barn with Twenty Summers. He taught at Rhode Island School of Design from 1997-2023. From 2003-2021 he was faculty in Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts. He’s a founding board member of the Provincetown Commons, a center for the arts and creative economy.
