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Video Trash and Treasures: Camp, B and Cult Movies and Television

Course Details
  • Course Number VCD-2359-CE
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:10PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

Low-budget films have been part of the cinematic landscape since the early decades of the film industry, initially serving as opening acts for theatrical features, and eventually developing their own identity. Though often disregarded by mainstream audiences, many B Westerns, horror movies and sci-fi thrillers have come to be appreciated for their campy melodramatic qualities, and have inspired filmmakers to take a cue from their ingeniously off-beat, low-budget tactics. This course will examine the appeal of lowbudget, camp and cult films and discuss their value as cultural artifacts worthy of our respect and admiration. We will also consider the meaning and implication of low-budget productions in our current cultural climate, with the affordability of digital video and the proliferation of modern trash including reality TV. In addition to composing responses to screened films and discussion topics such as authenticity, exploitation, irony and novelty, we will also purposefully concoct B material through group and individual assignments. Screenings will include works by Russ Meyer, Roger Corman, John Waters, George Kuchar and Troma.

Instructor

Erica Magrey

Visual artist, performer

Education:

BFA, summa cum laude, University of Hartford; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Performances, Screenings and exhibitions include:

The Kitchen; Spectacle Theater; Freight + Volume; Socrates Sculpture Park; Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland; Horton Gallery; Dixon Place; E.S.P. TV; STADIUM; Field Projects; Starlight Cinema, Madison; Magic Pictures, Philadelphia; Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami

Publications include:

Kunst Bulletin, The New York Times, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The Art of Making Dances, Beautiful/Decay

Awards and honors include:

New York Foundation for the Arts. Artist residency: International Exchange and Studio Program, Basel

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Making as Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number VSD-2126-A
  • Day(s) T,TH
  • Dates May 07 - Jun 25
  • Hours 03:00PM - 05:50PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description


This practical art-making course is a continuation of the insights presented by Philip Armstrong, Laura Lisbon and Stephen Melville in their 2001 exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, "As Painting: Division and Displacement." Students will explore nontraditional materials and techniques to make works that question the boundaries of painting and attempt to re-imagine its possibilities. As well as discussions of each student's paintings, this course will include reading and discussion of pertinent texts and exhibitions in town. The primary goal is to produce a body of paintings in response to class activities and personal studio practice.

Instructor

James Hyde

Fine artist

One-person exhibitions include:

Schau Ort, Zurich; The Boiler; Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris; Maison de la Culture de Bourges, France; Southfirst; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; San Diego Museum of Art; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

Group exhibitions include:

Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona, Italy; Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Visual Arts Gallery; Christopher Henry Gallery; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston; Mount Tremper Arts, NY; The Apartment, Athens; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery, Zurich; David Krut Projects; Hal Bromm Gallery; David Risley Gallery, London

Collections include:

Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Denver Art Museum, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, San Jose Museum of Art

Publications include:

Brooklyn Rail, The Photography Post, New York Sun, Time Out New York, ARTnews, The Village Voice, Zing, Art in America, James Hyde (monograph), San Diego Union-Tribune, New Art Examiner

Awards and honors include:

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Joan Mitchell Foundation; Falk Visiting Artist, Weatherspoon Art Museum

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Contemporary Painting Lab: Artists and Techniques of the 21st Century

Course Details
  • Course Number VSD-2237-CE
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:10PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

How does Ed Ruscha achieve his trademark sunset-like fade? Or Gerhard Richter his dreamy, cinematic blur? What might a painter like Dana Schutz do to make an irresistibly juicy brushstroke.or Alex Katz an unfussy line? How do hard edges, transparency, luminosity and distinctive mark-making affect the tone of a painting, and how are these effects best achieved? In this course, we will look to contemporary painters as guides for answering questions about how to create striking compositions by the most relevant methods possible. From taping and scraping to glazing, layering and trompe l'oeil tricks, we'll pinpoint technical solutions that align with each student's conceptual goals. Open to both experienced painters and those relatively new to the medium, thematic projects will be assigned each session. Included will be presentations on contemporary artists to foster a dialogue about possibilities for painting.

Instructor

Emily Weiner

Visual artist; art writer

Education:

BA, cum laude, Barnard College; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Professional experience includes:

Staff writer, Time Out New York; culture page reporter, Santiago Times

Group exhibitions include:

Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia; The Banff Centre, Canada; Camac Centre d'Art, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; Visual Arts Gallery; Louise McCagg Gallery, Barnard College; Concrete Utopia; X Initiative; Emerald Green Library; Artists Space; The Phatory LLC;  Clifton's Brookdale, Los Angeles; Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia; Nancy Margolis Gallery

Publications include:

Artforum, Domus, RES Art World/World Art, Artslant, ducts.org, ARTnews, Visual Arts Journal, Museo

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What the @#*% is Painting?

Course Details
  • Course Number VSD-2324-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates May 08 - Jun 26
  • Hours 09:00AM - 02:50PM
  • Credits 3.00
  • Cost 2400.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

Why do we continue to paint in the 21st century? This course will look at why painting continues to be relevant even after its critics have declared its death many times over. Through a series of projects designed to help students gain a better understanding how their painting (and painting in general) is a vital medium and is still alive and well and living in New York.
NOTE: this course is open to all students.

Instructor

Steve DeFrank

Sculptor

Education:

BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art; BFA, Washington University; MFA, School of Visual Arts

One-person exhibitions include:

Penine Hart Gallery; Clementine Gallery; Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston; Margaret Thatcher Projects

Group exhibitions include:

The Drawing Center; Islip Museum of Art, NY; Sonnabend Gallery; White Columns; Sculpture Center; New Museum of Contemporary Art; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

Publications include:

The New York Times, New York Native, Outweek, The Village Voice, Artforum, ARTnews, New York magazine

Awards include:

American Academy of Arts and Letters

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