Angela Dufresne

Professor
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BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
MFA, Tyler School Of Art

Angela Dufresne is a painter and video artist originally from Connecticut. She was raised in Olathe, Kansas, the town Dick and Perry stopped in before they killed the Clutters (In Cold Blood). She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and sometimes can be found in the Catskills. She received the first college degree in her family lineage. Her work articulates non-paranoid, porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear, power and possession. Through painting, drawing and performative works, she wields heterotopic narratives that are non-hierarchical, joyous and polymorphous. She has exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, NY; the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, ME; the RISD Museum in Providence, RI; The National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York; The Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York; the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, MO; Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NY; The Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, OH; The Aldridge Museum in Ridgefield, CT; Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, NY; the Rose Museum in Waltham, MA; Mills College in Oakland, CA; and Minneapolis School of Art and Design among others.

Dufresne received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and won a Purchase Award at The National Academy of Arts and Letters in 2011 and a Jerome Foundation Fellowship in 1992. She won residencies at Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Yaddo, the Siena Art Institute and The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown and the Headlands Center for the Arts. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City (fall 2018), and she recently had a two-person show with Louis Fratino at Monya Rowe Gallery in NY (summer 2018) and a group show at A.P.T. Gallery in London (summer 2018). She will be included in a traveling exhibition curated by the Avett Brothers and Erik Fischl titled Piece by Piece spanning 2019–20. Her work is in the collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; and Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.

Courses

Fall 2023 Courses

PAINT 4501-02 - PAINTING I
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4501-02

PAINTING I

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM; T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Angela Dufresne Location(s): Memorial Hall, Room 210 Enrolled / Capacity: 13 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

Spring 2024 Courses

PAINT 4490-01 - FROM PAINTING TO CINEMA AND BACK AGAIN
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4490-01

FROM PAINTING TO CINEMA AND BACK AGAIN

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: MT | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Instructor(s): Angela Dufresne Location(s): College Building, Room 510 Enrolled / Capacity: 15 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

The work intensive studio course will involved students in an intense visual, aesthetic and theoretical discussion around the historical relationship of Cinema to Painting and Arts Culture in general and move on to the analyze the current embodiment of Cinema's more conflated and confounded, co-dependant relationship to the Art's of today, tapping into the cross-pollination resulting of imagery, politics and theory's as they apply. Each class meeting will involve studio work and discussion and culminate with a film screening. The film screenings will move forward from Cinema's very beginnings to a few of today's best Indie films. The concentration of the course will be assigned painting projects that will be direct responses to the films being screened and related critiques of these projects as they pertain to the films and the applicable supplemental literature, allowing the discussion around Cinema, cinematic and art critical theory and the Art culture to be transferred to the students individual works thus allowing for the work to be seen in a larger context.

Elective

PAINT 4598-01 - PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4598-01

PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Angela Dufresne, Dennis Congdon Location(s): College Building, Room 610 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This is a comprehensive course designed to test the student's ability to create, complete, and document a Degree Project of his or her choosing. The Degree Project should be a distinct, carefully conceived, exhibition-ready body of work which reflects the issues and objectives of your art. The Senior Degree Project is distinct from your Woods-Gerry Gallery exhibition, although its work can overlap with that exhibition.

Open to Senior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4598-02 - PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4598-02

PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: T | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Instructor(s): Angela Dufresne, Meena Hasan Location(s): College Building, Room 610 Enrolled / Capacity: 9 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This is a comprehensive course designed to test the student's ability to create, complete, and document a Degree Project of his or her choosing. The Degree Project should be a distinct, carefully conceived, exhibition-ready body of work which reflects the issues and objectives of your art. The Senior Degree Project is distinct from your Woods-Gerry Gallery exhibition, although its work can overlap with that exhibition.

Open to Senior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4598-03 - PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4598-03

PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Angela Dufresne, Siobhan Liddell Location(s): College Building, Room 610 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This is a comprehensive course designed to test the student's ability to create, complete, and document a Degree Project of his or her choosing. The Degree Project should be a distinct, carefully conceived, exhibition-ready body of work which reflects the issues and objectives of your art. The Senior Degree Project is distinct from your Woods-Gerry Gallery exhibition, although its work can overlap with that exhibition.

Open to Senior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4598-04 - PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4598-04

PAINTING DEGREE PROJECT

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Ala Dehghan, Angela Dufresne Location(s): College Building, Room 612 Enrolled / Capacity: 9 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This is a comprehensive course designed to test the student's ability to create, complete, and document a Degree Project of his or her choosing. The Degree Project should be a distinct, carefully conceived, exhibition-ready body of work which reflects the issues and objectives of your art. The Senior Degree Project is distinct from your Woods-Gerry Gallery exhibition, although its work can overlap with that exhibition.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

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BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
MFA, Tyler School Of Art