Alfredo Gisholt

Critic
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MFA, Boston University

Alfredo Gisholt was born in Mexico City. He attended the Academia de San Carlos and has a BFA from Florida International University and an MFA from Boston University. Gisholt has had solo exhibitions at CUE Foundation, NYC; Forma110 Gallery and Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston; University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor; and Recinto Project Room, Mexico City. He has been featured in Beer with a Painter in Hyperallergic, Painter’s Table and The Brooklyn Rail. He has exhibited in group shows at Park Place Gallery, NYC; Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City; and Rose Art Museum, Waltham among others. Gisholt teaches at Brandeis University and RISD and has been a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center, University of Houston, Fashion Institute of Technology and Boston University. He lives and works in Boston.

Courses

Fall 2023 Courses

FOUND 1001-24 - STUDIO:DRAWING
Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

FOUND 1001-24

STUDIO:DRAWING

Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 1:40 PM - 6:00 PM; T | 8:00 AM - 11:10 AM Instructor(s): Alfredo Gisholt Location(s): Auditorium, Room 510 Enrolled / Capacity: 20 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.

Enrollment is limited to first-year Undergraduate Students.

Major Requirement | BFA

DRAW 1114-01 - INDEPENDENT DRAWING PROJECT
Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Drawing
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

DRAW 1114-01

INDEPENDENT DRAWING PROJECT

Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Drawing
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Alfredo Gisholt, James Lambert Location(s): College Building, Room 612 Enrolled / Capacity: 12 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

The goal of Independent Drawing Projects is for students to develop a distinct, carefully conceived, and self-directed body of works through a process of investigation, critical assessment and production. Through a rigorous studio practice, students are expected to identify and develop their own conceptual interests and material approaches. Individual and group critiques support, facilitate, and intensify this process. While drawing concentrators will be given priority, interested students outside of the concentration and beyond the sophomore level may take this course. For the drawing concentrator, the work created for the Independent Drawing Project serves as the culmination of the Drawing Concentration program. Critiques will run from 6:00 - 9:00PM, followed by independent studio work.

Open to Sophomore, Junior and Senior Undergraduate Students.

Elective

DRAW 1106-01 - DRAWING AND COLLAGE
Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Drawing
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

DRAW 1106-01

DRAWING AND COLLAGE

Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Drawing
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: F | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Instructor(s): Alfredo Gisholt Location(s): College Building, Room 612 Enrolled / Capacity: 16 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This course will explore drawing and collage using various methods, materials and subjects. Students will use a variety of media, including their own drawings, found objects and photographic images. Students will be encouraged to instigate intuitive and open responses to perceptual and conceptual sources. The form of collage will give students the opportunity to build, develop and reprocess their drawings. Scale, subject, abstraction and materiality are some of the visual elements addressed in the course.

Estimated Cost of Materials $50.00

Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Students.

Elective

Spring 2024 Courses

FOUND 1002-09 - STUDIO:DRAWING
Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

FOUND 1002-09

STUDIO:DRAWING

Level Undergraduate
Unit Experimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: F | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; F | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Instructor(s): Alfredo Gisholt Location(s): Waterman Building, Room 31 Enrolled / Capacity: 20 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.

Enrollment is limited to first-year undergraduate students.

Major Requirement | BFA

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MFA, Boston University