Hope Grayson

Hope Grayson is a painter who focuses on body language and patterns from the historic and applied arts. Described as a figurative expressionist, she works on canvas, paper, metal, and wood. Her paintings are in collections across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. She is represented by Sandra Neustadter in New York and Delray Beach, Florida.

Inspired by the artwork, Synecdoche, by Byron Kim, the session entitled “Skin Deep” engages the students in mixing paint to match their own skin shade and then paint it on 2 paper squares, aided by guest artist Hope Grayson. On one of the squares the students overpaint common dermatological lesions on the paper they prepared.  At the end of the class, the leaders collect and arrange the other squares made by the students into a Class Self Portrait.