A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.

Alexis de Chaunac

Lecturer

Bio

Lecturer, Painting and Drawing, (2022). Education: BA, 2014, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville; MFA, 2022, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Exhibitions: University Club of Chicago, Chicago; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Sargent’s Daughters, New York; Silas von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn; Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Xalapa. Bibliography: Whitewall Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, Artsy Editorial. Collections: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; François Pinault Foundation, Paris. Awards: Dedalus Foundation Fellowship, New York; Fundación Jumex de Arte Contemporáneo Grant Recipient, Mexico.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

Painting Practice is an introductory painting course offering. The curriculum addresses basic skills as related to a painting studio practice. Topics and curricular goals include material, facility and technique, space and color, as well as concept. This course is a prerequisite for all Multi-level Painting, Figure Painting and Advanced Painting Studio classes.

Class Number

1687

Credits

3

Description

This fall section of Sophomore Seminar is for second-semester Sophomores. Students must have 39 credits or more to enroll in this course.

What are the concerns that drive one¿s creative practice? How does one set the terms for its future development? Sophomore Seminar offers strategies for students to explore, reflect upon, and connect common themes and interests in the development of an emerging creative practice that will serve as the basis of their ongoing studies at SAIC and beyond. Students will examine historical and contemporary influences and contextualize their work in relation to the diverse art-worlds of the 21st Century.

Readings, screenings, and field trips will vary each semester. Presentations by visiting artists and guest speakers will provide the opportunity for students to hear unique perspectives on sustaining a creative practice.

One-on-one meetings with faculty will provide students with individualized mentorship throughout the semester. During interdisciplinary critiques, students will explore a variety of formats and tools to analyze work and provide peer feedback. The class mid-term project asks students to imagine a plan for their creative life and devise a self-directed course of study for their time at school. The course concludes with an assignment asking students to develop and document a project or body of work demonstrating how the interplay of ideas, technical skills, and formal concerns evolve through iteration, experimentation and revision.

Class Number

1777

Credits

3