How to Look at Art with Artist Rhia Hurt
Taught by Rhia Hurt
Rhia Hurt is a fine artist currently based in New York City. She received her MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and has since shown her artwork in California, New York, Berlin, and Toronto. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States. In addition to her studio art practice, Hurt is also the founder and Executive Director of Trestle Gallery, an arts organization in Brooklyn, NY.
Do you like art, visiting museums and galleries and want to understand more? Curious to know what art lovers are thinking when they're staring at a famous painting or that questionable contemporary art installation? Or, perhaps you have a sense of what kind of art you like but aren’t sure how to talk about it?
If this sounds familiar, please join us and take a deeper look at art with a professional artist living and working in New York City! Brooklyn-based artist, Rhia Hurt, will lead an intimate and casual walkthrough of her New York City debut solo exhibition, “Seeing Through,” over coffee and pastries at Ground Floor Gallery. The artist will introduce you to the basic principles of painting, how they apply to her process, and her personal approach to observing artwork by her peers.