Fox Friday: Generative AI Ornamental Tiles

Understanding the materials we work with is essential to experimentation. Learning to make paint demystifies the material, opens up possibilities to work with novel pigments, and allows for the material to be transformed to a far greater degree. We will discuss the ins and outs of pigments, binders, and how they interact with mediums. Most importantly, we will make paint! Students will leave having made at least one color of oil or acrylic.

Instructor: Andrew Catanese (b. 1993 Ann Arbor, MI) is a painter and sculptor from the American South. They earned a BFA in Studio Art at the Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA at Stanford University. Catanese has shown their work in galleries and museums throughout the United States, including Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA), Maune Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Macon Arts Alliance (Macon, GA), Banana Factory Arts Center (Bethlehem, PA), SOMArts (San Francisco, CA), and Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art (Augusta, GA). Artist residencies include The Creatives Project, Artist in Studio Residency in Atlanta, GA, Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, Virgina, among several public art projects for murals and public sculpture. In 2021, they were awarded the prestigious Cadogan Scholarship that supports master of fine arts students. Catanese currently lives and works in St. Louis, MO.