Consultations in Creativity
Consultations in Creativity
In-person workshop
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
August 4, 5, and 6
Time: 10am -5pm
Instructor: Abigail Tulis
Each consult is 50 minutes long. You can select more than one.
In Consultations in Creativity, each artist will meet privately with Abigail Tulis for personal critiques of 50 minute allotments. Tulis will review with them their work —ideas for a new image or project, a body of work in process, sketches, personal archive - what they are feeling creatively inspired by yet unsure of - in any medium or stage of development. Tulis will advise on how to decide what the next step is, acting as a mirror back to the artist for a fresh view of their work, helping them to channel their own unique voice and utilize the (maybe overlooked) tools at their disposal, through examining one’s personal archive of images and narratives, expanding creative thinking by journaling, and exploring new mediums to strengthen their creative cognitive skills.
With a practice rooted in drawing and an aesthetic informed by art history, literature, psychological and metaphysical research, each consult with Tulis provides the artist with a toolkit to better realize their own vision in their artwork, from conception to finalization. With this holistic approach gained from own ongoing explorations, Tulis meets each student where they are at to expand their creative horizons and make authentic work in dialogue with both contemporary and traditional art.
Blocks of time are sold in 50 minute allotments. There are discounts for taking more than one allotment.
The techniques artists will learn to create images:
finding expanders - visual research using the web and ones personal/generational archive
conceiving of and tracking concepts with thumbnail sketches
collecting your source material
Staging and making photos using your iPhone,
making drawings from online historical archives
methods of gathering visual information in your daily life through slowing down and attention
assembling and synthesizing material
photoshop as an image manipulator
Establishing color harmonies to set mood
Experimenting and planning what technique and materials to use at different stages of the process
switching between analogue and digital
About the Instructor
Abigail Tulis is a sculptor, designer and painter making work inspired by renaissance and medieval forms. She presently resides in Brussels. Her sculptures and drawings are in numerous private collections and she has executed sculptural commissions for architects and interior designers. She studied traditional figure drawing and painting at the Grand Central Academy and classical architectural design at the Beaux-Art Atelier, in New York City.
Abigail has also worked as creative visual director for Kitten the Band and Ava Della Pietra, while also contributing media to numerous musical projects and creating look-books with producers developing Netflix shows. In these creative realm she uses photography, film, collage, and digital manipulation to create fantastical realities for her clients. Her media work has been mentioned by Paper Magizine, MTV, i-D Vice, and Steriogum.
Her sculptural work has been featured in Vanity Fair Magazine, Architectural Digest, been exhibited at Booth Gallery and GCA’s 11th St. Art Gallery, and won the Stanford White Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art for a sculptural design for a house in Millbrook, Ct.
She recently curated “You Muse, You Lose” at Paul Calendrillo Gallery in NYC and “All the Ages You Were Before” At Project Space in Oyster Bay.
Dividing her time between NYC and Europe, Tulis has also been a part of the Hudson River Fellowship, the Metropolitan Copyist program, and held a residency by Werk aan Het Spoel in the Netherlands.
Click on the images to see more of Tulis’ work.
