Image: Ulrike Veith, Wasp Nest, constructed image.
The Constructed Image: Workshop w/ Ulrike Veith
Take a look inside Ulrike Veith’s archive as she demonstrates how she creates her constructed images. Bring your own sentimental objects to create a constructed image inspired by Veith’s process!
This workshop will give an introduction to some of the techniques used historically to construct narrative photographic images. Veith will talk about her approach to constructing images and the technical tools she utilizes.
She will discuss questions such as: how does a surrealistic approach ask viewers to suspend their disbelief, freeing the artist from the intention of creating dissonance/“Verfremdungseffekt” (Berthold Brecht)? What role is played by colour the effect of Chromophobia in Western culture? How does lighting and mood influence how an image is read? What are culturally negotiated symbolic meanings of objects? What is the role of experimenting and randomness in the process of juxtaposing objects? How does Photoshop increase the artist’s range in aesthetic choices, tools, etc.? How can you use scanning or a light table while composing an image? How do you play between co-incidence and control while communicating a clear topic in your work?
Using her archive, Veith will demonstrate her process using photos, scans, and editing techniques in photoshop. She will also discuss how she plans, creates, and refines her final constructed images.
Please bring
a shoe box
10-20 personal objects/copies of photos
your cell phone
This workshop is FREE for PAVED Arts members and $20 for non-members.
Please fill out this form to register for this workshop.
Artist Bio
Ulrike Veith was born in Germany and lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Veith has a Masters in Educational Communication from the University of Saskatchewan and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Kassel in Germany.
During her career she has worked as a curator, educator, programmer, administrator and writer. She has received grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, SkArts and the Canada Council. Her work is in the collection of SkArts.
In the 1980s, Veith worked in analog photography, both black & white and Cibachrome. Recently, she made the switch to digital image creation and has been studying digital photography as part of a post baccalaureate certificate program at the University of Regina.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Neutral Ground, Regina, Kunst im Weg, Germany, Mann Art Gallery, Prince Albert, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon. Her billboard Post Human was featured at PAVED Arts as well as her project, Conversations with My Old Self, was included in a group exhibition at PAVED Arts.
She was the co-curator of Search, Image and Identity: Voicing Our West, shown at The Photographers Gallery and toured to 7 venues nationally and to the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki She has published articles in Blackflash magazine, was a panelist on the 25th anniversary panel, The Photographers Gallery, and gave a lecture on contemporary Canadian photography at the Art Department of Helsinki University.
