Workshop To Explore The Experiential in Art – Saturday, September 13 At RiverBrink Art Museum

Queenston in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario – Director/Curator David Aurandt shares his artistic talents with participants in the upcoming workshop Exploring the Experiential in Art on Saturday, September 13.

RiverBrink director/curator David Aurandt

According to poet Wallace Stevens, “Realism is a corruption of reality.” Among other things, he means that we do not experience the world without the mediation of our senses and our imaginations. We “imitate” reality; reality is an illusion made by us. The world is obliquely, not directly, connected to us. Artists in different times and cultures have understood this well and its truth reverberates through artistic theory and practice. In this workshop we will confront “reality”, not as a philosophical question of meaning but as an artistic problem for expression. Another way of putting it is to say we will deal with the nature of experience as we represent our experience of nature.

In my own work I have explored the possibilities for expression by testing the limitations of knowledge and experience. It continues to be important for me to be reminded that we all make and remake the world, that the world is fascinating because its reality is not certain, except in so far as our experience embraces and expresses it.

To register please contact RiverBrink by phone 905-262-4510 or by email to manager@riverbrink.org

RiverBrink Art Museum is located at 116 Queenston Street, Queenston (Niagara-on-the-Lake) (on the Niagara Parkway halfway between Niagara Falls and “Old Town” Niagara-on-the-Lake). Free parking. Wheelchair accessible.

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