Gaylen Gerber

This critique-based class addresses a wide range of issues as they arise through the direct experience of the students? work. Emphasis is given to the correlation between the declared artistic intent of each student and the reception of those intentions as they are embodied in the artwork. Special attention is paid to clarifying how students? work may be described, contextualized, and documented with the goal of developing a shared critical framework for evaluating a range of different disciplines and approaches that gives students a solid basis to proceed from effectively after graduation.

This critique-based class addresses a wide range of issues as they arise through the direct experience of the students' work. Emphasis is given to the correlation between the declared artistic intent of each student and the reception of those intentions as they are embodied in the artwork. Special attention is paid to clarifying how students' work may be described, contextualized, and documented with the goal of developing a shared critical framework for evaluating a range of different disciplines and approaches that gives students a solid basis to proceed from effectively. The class places an emphasis on extensive experimentation related to studio problems and directions through individual idioms. This course approaches art with a focus on concept, idea, and language rather than percept and expressive intuition. Special reference to contemporary theory including art's use and function is foregrounded.

Junior and Senior-level undergraduate students are welcome to enroll in this course, and should email the instructor to seek authorization to register.

This critique-based class addresses a wide range of issues as they arise through the direct experience of the students' work. Emphasis is given to the correlation between the declared artistic intent of each student and the reception of those intentions as they are embodied in the artwork. Special attention is paid to clarifying how students' work may be described, contextualized, and documented with the goal of developing a shared critical framework for evaluating a range of different disciplines and approaches that gives students a solid basis to proceed from effectively. The class places an emphasis on extensive experimentation related to studio problems and directions through individual idioms. This course approaches art with a focus on concept, idea, and language rather than percept and expressive intuition. Special reference to contemporary theory including art's use and function is foregrounded.

Junior and Senior-level undergraduate students are welcome to enroll in this course, and should email the instructor to seek authorization to register.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.