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Image Riff explores strategies for responding to photographs through painted gestures. Set amidst Philip Leonard Ocampo’s exhibition Animorphs* in the Vitrines, this workshop uses ubiquitous photographs and screenshots taken on smartphones or mobile devices as starting points for multidisciplinary image making. From adhering images to painted surfaces to developing graphic and visual strategies in relation to photographs, Ocampo situates these approaches within his own practice while guiding participants in their pursuit of the magic that lies beyond what the lens can capture.
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Surface Tensions: Gestures on the Photographic Image
This three-part workshop series introduces a unique method of working across mediums—from painting directly onto photographic prints, to drawing with light on light-sensitive materials, to using chemistry to paint on negatives. Engage with image-making as a layered, tactile process, expanding photography beyond the frame into the realm of physical intervention and encouraging experimentation and cross-disciplinary play.
Course fee: $340 (Members) / $400 (Non Members)
Individual Workshop fee: $120 (Members) / $140 (Non Members)
Philip Leonard Ocampo (b.1995) is an artist and arts facilitator based in Tkaronto, Canada. Ocampo’s multidisciplinary practice involves painting, sculpture, writing and curatorial projects. Exploring worldbuilding, radical hope and speculative futures, Ocampo’s work embodies a curious cross between magic wonder and the nostalgic imaginary. Following the tangents, histories and canons of popular culture, Ocampo is interested in how unearthing cultural touchstones of past / current times may therefore serve as catalysts for broader conversations about lived experiences; personal, collective, diasporic, etc.
He holds a BFA in Integrated Media (DPXA) from OCAD University (2018) and is currently a Programming Coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre and one of the four founding co-directors of Hearth, an artist-run collective based in the city.
