Saturday June 28, 2025 | 12:00 – 2:00pm
Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map)
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Free Workshop
Limited space available, RSVP required
For this workshop, 2025 RU alum Dana Nechmad will expand upon the collective artist book project “Bodies in Transit” that she created earlier this year. Aligned with the Surrealist Exquisite Corpse’s methodology where players contribute a piece without seeing each other’s work, Dana invited fellow artists at RU to contribute their own interpretations to a notebook divided into three main parts -head, body, and feet- allowing them to connect and respond to one another visually.
In this workshop, Dana invites participants to create their own versions of Exquisite Corpse while interacting and collaborating on a drawing together. The starting point for this experimental artistic game will be the body as a constantly changing force. Each participant will create their own unique “body”—a visual composition featuring surprising and fantastical features—using collaborative drawing, collage, and text. The process will emphasize personal expression and humor while fostering a sense of shared transformation.Throughout the session, we will consider the broader context of change—both physically and mentally—reflecting on the ongoing global flux we all experience. We will also revisit examples from art history of artists that have used this method to expand their creativity and imagination.
This community-building workshop is open to creators of all ages, and you will team up to create surprising and bizarre visual compositions that will delight and inspire. A PDF version of the final result will be made available to all participants.
About
Dana Nechmad is an interdisciplinary artist working with painting, drawing, embroidery and video. She aims to decipher the physical, psychological and philosophical construct which is the human body. At the core of her practice is the tenuous relationship between interiority and exteriority as she seeks ways to penetrate one to glimpse at the other.
Nechmad earned a BFA from the Libera Academia di belle Arti, Florence, Italy, alongside a certificate from Angel Academy in Florence. She completed an MA in Philosophy from the Tel Aviv University, and later obtained an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Nechmad has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions in various international settings, including: ‘Ripped’ at Mandy Zhang Art Gallery, London (2025) ‘In Tension’ at The Bee in the Lion Gallery, NYC (2019), ‘Mother and Child’ at Almacen gallery in Jaffa (2022) and ‘Stepping Stones’ at Loushy Art Project space in Tel Aviv (2022), ‘Ripped’ at Mandy Zhang Gallery in London (2025). Her work can be found in the Dubi Shiff Art collection, LunArt Collection, Joan Flaschartist book Collection, Rappaport Family collection and more. She is the recipient of the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship (2016-18), New American Painting #131 (2017), and the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration grant (2018).
RU is grateful for the partnership with Governors Island Arts.
