Dennis Congdon

Professor
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RISD faculty member Dennis Congdon
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
MFA, Yale University

Dennis Congdon holds a BFA in painting from RISD and an MFA from Yale. He is a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He taught painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Tyler School of Art and has been on the full-time faculty in the RISD Painting department since 1984 and a full professor since 1998. In 2003 he received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and in 2010 RISD’s John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was a visiting artist and scholar at the American Academy in Rome through June and July of 2009. Since 2014 he has facilitated the Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar Visiting Scholar in Painting, made possible by the generous Kirloskar Endowment established in 2013. Each year, an advisory group invites and hosts a visiting artist(s) from India and South Asia for lectures, workshops, critiques and dialogues with Painting graduate students.

Congdon’s work is exhibited widely. Recent shows have included a solo exhibition at New York’s CUE Gallery, Ignis Fatuus at Smith College, The Machine in the Garden and Mediated Nature at Oberlin College, Sign Language at the RISD Museum and Is, was, will be at the Mona Bismark Foundation in Paris.

Courses

Fall 2023 Courses

PAINT 4501-01 - PAINTING I
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4501-01

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): Dennis Congdon Location(s): Memorial Hall, Room 307 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 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

PAINT 452G-01 - GRADUATE DRAWING
Level Graduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 452G-01

GRADUATE DRAWING

Level Graduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: TH | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Instructor(s): Dennis Congdon Location(s): Fletcher Building, Room 203 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This course presents the graduate student with a series of problems intended to develop drawing as a tool for inquiry into a terrain outside the well-known beaten paths of his/her past studio practice. Expanding the role for drawing in studio experimentation is a goal. Work will be done outside class. There are critiques each week.

Open to Graduate Painting Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Painting

Spring 2024 Courses

PAINT 4502-01 - PAINTING II
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4502-01

PAINTING II

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: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM Instructor(s): Dennis Congdon Location(s): Memorial Hall, Room 307 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

The purpose of this course is to continue development based on Painting I. Individual expression will be encouraged through a series of larger works which require greater time and organizational skill. Experimentation in different painting media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media will be encouraged. Group and individual critiques are required. Outside work will be assigned.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4529-01 - DRAWING II
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4529-01

DRAWING II

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: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Dennis Congdon Location(s): Memorial Hall, Room 307 Enrolled / Capacity: 12 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

A continued examination and development of drawing skills. This course is coordinated with Painting II.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

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

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RISD faculty member Dennis Congdon
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design
MFA, Yale University