Open Door Gallery at WAM: Dominic Quagliozzi Artist Workshop

Join us for a FREE artist workshop led by ODG at WAM exhibiting artist, Dominic Quagliozzi!

Art Cleanser: Experimental Drawings with BetaDine
In this workshop, participants will make experimental drawings using povidone-iodine, more popularly known by the brand name BetaDine. Povidone Iodine is used on the skin to decrease risk of infection. This medicine is also used as a surgical hand scrub and to wash the skin and surface of the eye before surgery to help prevent infections.

This material is a fascinating medium for drawing because it applies similarly to ink or watercolor on paper, but that’s where the fun starts. Mixed with water its color changes from brown to violet, and mixed with vitamin C it can turn clear. While working with the Betadine you will be seeing purples and browns, but over the days after it dries it will continue to transition into something unexpected!

We will be playing with basic drawing and watercolor techniques to see what and how we can give some direction to a very unpredictable and organic process.

Workshop space is limited to 20 participants

Time:
The workshop will take place from 5:30 - 6:30 pm, following an opening reception and brief artist talk starting at 4:30 pm.

Getting to the Space:
The Open Door Gallery @ WAM is located in the Higgins Education Wing of the Worcester Art Museum, at 55 Salisbury Street Worcester, MA 01609. The gallery can be accessed through the Lancaster Street entrance of WAM as is located at the end of the first floor of the Higgins Education Wing, next to the Library.

Access:
We are committed to creating an inclusive exhibition environment. In this exhibition there are image descriptions of all the artworks, tactile representations of the art that can be experienced through touch, and all videos have open captions.

For further access requests or feedback, or to request ASL interpreters for the May 2 workshop please email [email protected] . Please request ASL by April 18.

About Home Body:
In this exhibition, I trace the lineage of my art practice back to this space, the places around Worcester where I was supported, cared for and challenged. Places such as the Worcester Art Museum and UMass hospital, and other institutions created familiar spaces for me to find comfort and community, as well as an opportunity to grow as an artist. While growing up with a chronic illness, Cystic Fibrosis, making art was one of the few constants in my life available to me during times of health and decline; creating in itself a comfort measure as important as complying with treatments and taking medications.

My current artistic practice deconstructs my lived experience with chronic illness and disability to explore personal histories and the domestication of illness. Using medicalized materials such as hospital gowns and clinic table tissue paper, I reference my de- and re-constructed body, often present through its absence. My work aims to highlight the interdependence needed for healing and notions of longevity within personal and shared experience.

Informed by narrative medicine, I paired each work with the narrative that reflects upon the circumstances influencing its creation. Together these works and narratives thread together my body’s role in developing my notions of wayfinding and home.

Learn more here: https://opendoorartsma.org/gallery/odgworcester/
Learn more about Dominic on his website: https://www.artistdominic.com/

Image: An example of a Betadine patining. It has broad brushstrokes making a painting of flowers in a vase. The brushmarks are brown with purple edges.

Host or Publisher Open Door Arts