This hands-on studio course will explore the ways in which artists have taken painting into the realm of 3D. Each class will have lessons about using different kinds of paint additives, tools like trowels and spatulas, and surface materials like wood, fabric, and rope. We will also consider the ways that artists have sculpted images throughout history, looking first at ancient bas reliefs and working our way towards the Gutai group in Japan, the hanging canvases of Sam Gilliam, and the fiber infused works of Rachel Eulena Williams. The class will include essays on Tishan Hsu, Lee Bontecou, and the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea, as well as excerpts from William C. Seitz’s The Art of Assemblage, among others. This class is open to undergraduate and graduate students from all departments, and students will be encouraged to incorporate ideas and techniques from their own practices.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $200.00

Elective

This is the second part of a two-class sequence, with Introductory Prehistory of Contemporary Art as a prerequisite. This class, required for painting majors in spring semester of their junior year, is devoted to the development of postmodern and contemporary art and culture from roughly 1989 to the present, introducing, contextualizing, and assessing how artists have addressed the discourses around medium, technology, globalization, colonialism, social justice, the environment in that time, how their work has been shaped by other spheres of cultural production, and how critics have responded to and theorized the art of the recent past and the present day. There will be a field-trip to Dia Beacon during the semester.

Enrollment is limited to Junior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting