Beyer Artist-in-Residence Workshop: Exploring Meaning: Image, Text, Sound, and Object in Context with Uri Aran

Friday, January 3, 2025, 10:00AM
Monday, January 6, 2025, 10:00AM
Friday, January 10, 2025, 10:00AM
Monday, January 13, 2025, 10:00AM
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 10:00AM

BEYER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Uri Aran
Generously supported by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Beyer

** This class is for all experience levels **

$395 for workshop series

Come and experiment in these hands-on workshops in drawing, sculpture, and sound assemblage. We will explore how art generates knowledge. This knowledge is not just found in singular objects or artworks, but also in how their relationships can produce discursive, emotional, and social dynamics that enable subjective responses.

Uri Aran’s practice – spanning painting, drawing, video, sculpture, performance, and installation – is unbound to any medium or hierarchy among materials. Frequently implementing familiar ideas decontextualized from their ascribed roles and settings, he forges intimate worlds where connection and disconnection fundamentally coexist. A storyteller, Aran mines narratives of memory, nostalgia, and human emotions. As these themes collide and diverge, he unveils the embedded poetry within them. Aran received an MFA from Columbia University, New York in 2007, and additionally studied at Cooper Union, New York and completed a Bachelor of Design at Bezalel Academy Jerusalem in 2004. He participated in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2024) and the Madre Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, IT (2025).