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Meeting LIVE Online for 7 sessions, every other Tuesday.

January 14, 28, February 11, 25, March 11, April 8, and 22.

Over the course of the next few months we will be gathering online, every other week, to continue and deepen the conversation.

The selection of readings we will be covering this winter and spring will support our larger inquiry into the deeper nature of painting. 

• • January 14  Linda Nochlin, “Mary Cassatt’s Modernity”

• • January 28  Sylvie Patry, Berthe Morisot: “Stimulating Ambiguities”

• • February 11  John Elderfield, from the catalog essay on Matisse, for the MOMA retrospective 1992

• • February 25   Henri Matisse, “Notes of a Painter”

• • March 11  John Berger, “Bonnard”, from The Sense of Sight

• • April 8   Andrew Forge, selections from an essay on Soutine

• • April 22  David Sylvester, “De Kooning I”

“I first started teaching and facilitating The Reading Group back in the nineties. I was working with a group of younger painters who were developing their hands-on skills and were quite talented. I knew from my own experience that my engagement as a painter hugely benefited from reading stuff about painting that felt real, relevant, and stimulating – and I wanted to bring that sort of addition to the younger painters.”

Jordan will be facilitating the discussion in a supportive and friendly atmosphere.  All these books are great and worth purchasing, but PDFs will be supplied for all of the essays and selections.

Wine and nibbles recommended, although not essential.  Open to painters and non-painters, of all persuasions, world-wide.

All sessions will be streamed in HIGH DEFINITION, providing greatly increased visual acuity of the painted surface and demonstrations.

All sessions will be recorded, archived and available for repeated viewing.

A Webinar Link will be sent out upon registration.

To register simply click on the “+” sign below.