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Mindy Rose Schwartz

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Instructor, Sculpture (2003). Education: BFA 1985, University of Illinois at Urbana; MFA, 1996, University of Illinois at Chicago; Teaching Certification, SAIC 1992.

Exhibitions: Interstate Projects, NY; Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium; awhrhwar LA; Room E-10 27 at Center, Berlin; Belice Hertling, Paris; Eric Hussenot, Paris; Saint Cirq la Popie Bienniel, Saint-Cirq Lapopie, FR; Arcadia Missa, London; Carlos Ishikawa Gallery, London; QT Gallery, NY; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Et al. Gallery SF, CA; Cooper Cole, Toronto; Alter Space, LA; Los Angeles Contemporary; Prairie Gallery, Chicago; Slow Gallery, Chicago; Terrain Gallery, Chicago; Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Spertus Museum Chicago; and Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA. Bibliography: Art in America, Art News, Art Forum, Art Space, Art Viewer, Contemporary Art Daily, Dream the End, New City, The Seen, AJS Perspectives, New American Painters, Frieze, New Art Examiner, Dialogue, Chicago Reader, WBEZ, Bad at Sports, Whitewalls, Beautiful Decay. Publications: Trigg, Sarah, Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process, Princeton Architectural Press 12/17/13, Harvard Design Magazine No. 45, Ed. Sigler, Jennifer, Into the Woods, p. 150, 2018 Awards: Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Foundation for the Arts, 3Arts Residence Fellowship, Frankel Foundation Residency Fellowship; Visiting Artist, Illinois State University; CAAP grant.

Mindy Rose Schwartz is an artist living in Chicago. She uses a wide range of materials and processes with specific cultural references, and often undervalued cultural status, to frame them in a different light. Her sculptures demonstrate the ways in which the intended significance or function of mass-produced objects can oscillate in our perception, being sites of fear or control, as well as sentiment, longing and pleasure.

 

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Description

This course is an introduction to the materials, methods, and concepts of sculpture. We will investigate making in relation to material, time and space. We will consider aspects of sculpture such as meaning, scale, process, social engagement, ephemera and site; and explore the formal properties and expressive potential of materials including mold making and casting, wood, metal and experimental media. We will combine the use of materials and methods with ideas that reflect the history of contemporary sculpture. Demonstrations and authorizations will provide students with experience and technical proficiency in sculptural production while readings and slide lectures venture into the critical discourses of sculpture.

Class Number

1382

Credits

3

Description

Now, more than ever, sculpture is the most inclusive category of artmaking. Yet even at the height of this expanded field, a residual hierarchy remains when it comes to means associated with craft. In this course students examine traditional sculpture and craft processes in relation to notions of taste, class, gender, age. Students consider skill or craftsmanship; utility and decoration; commercial pressures vs. aesthetics standards and are encouraged to examine their own relationship to specific materials, processes, and techniques as a source of meaning and foundation for sculptural practice.

Class Number

2000

Credits

3