ONLINE COURSE
Adventures in Still Life
This class will help develop your still life practice into a body of work that’s cohesive and expressive — whether you’re creating a portfolio of abstracted botanical landscapes, working on the photos for your own cookbook, or even channeling the poetic vanitas of Dutch master paintings. We’ll study strategies and visual compositions used by contemporary artists in their still life practice as a means to further your own, as well as analyzing practical matters like lighting. Supported by in-class critique and brainstorming exercises, you’ll develop your still life ideas into a portfolio. Assignments are customized to each student individually, to help you develop your own voice in the still life genre. This class would be a good opportunity to work on a project or to simply experiment with different techniques each week. To allow time to work on your still lifes, the class session are spread out over 8 weeks.
Néstor Pérez-Molière was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and currently resides in the Bronx, New York. His art entails a process of self-discovery; a series of confessionals revealing private conflicts; hoping towards catharsis. Through this cathartic process he hopes to connect with the viewer’s struggles and depathologize negative feelings so that they can be seen as a source for political action rather than its antithesis. Néstor exposes mental health issues like depression, dysmorphia, food addictions, and loneliness: describing their mechanisms, scrutinizing their origins, and illuminating the impossibility of fixing them. His practice mainly takes place in the realm of photography but has also incorporated performance, drawing, video, installation, and intaglio techniques into his works.
He received an MFA from Hunter College and holds a BSc in Botany. He was part of EmergeNYC 2023, Artist in the Marketplace 2017, and Creative Capital’s Taller 2019 mentorship programs, and was included in The Bronx Museum of the Arts Fourth Biennial. He has exhibited at the Museo de las Américas, the Clemente Soto Vélez, Bronx Art Space, Longwood Gallery, and the Liga de Estudiantes de Artes de San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2023 he was a resident at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Governors Island Arts Center and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts residencies. Interested in becoming an educator, he teaches, and has taught, digital and darkroom photography, as well as media literacy at the International Center of Photography, Parsons School of Design, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Point CDC, and StrudelmediaLive.
Néstor teaches lighting for still life, Lightroom, and more for StrudelmediaLive.
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