Jasper Goodrich

This course offers students the opportunity to explore printmedia as a viable contemporary practice. Students will examine the formal qualities of the printed mark as well as issues of multiplicity, replication, and dissemination inherent to the medium. To aid student understanding, this course will balance discussions of relevant artists and thinkers with a range of technical and conceptual approaches. Students will engage in two processes which may include screenprinting, plate lithography, relief printmaking, intaglio, and book arts depending on the faculty. Students will learn additional print techniques like stencils, monoprints, and participate in a Risography print exchange, in conjunction with concepts germane to this diverse and historically significant area of creative production. Guided by assigned readings, presentations, assignments and group critiques students will develop a body of work in dialogue with contemporary printmedia.

This course offers students the opportunity to explore printmedia as a viable contemporary practice. Students will examine the formal qualities of the printed mark as well as issues of multiplicity, replication, and dissemination inherent to the medium. To aid student understanding, this course will balance discussions of relevant artists and thinkers with a range of technical and conceptual approaches. Students will engage in two processes which may include screenprinting, plate lithography, relief printmaking, intaglio, and book arts depending on the faculty. Students will learn additional print techniques like stencils, monoprints, and participate in a Risography print exchange, in conjunction with concepts germane to this diverse and historically significant area of creative production. Guided by assigned readings, presentations, assignments and group critiques students will develop a body of work in dialogue with contemporary printmedia.

Students learn traditional and experimental approaches to relief printmaking. Techniques covered are woodcut, linocut, wood engraving, relief etching, monoprints, and other press and hand-printing relief processes.

Instead of art making that leads to one image or object, often contemporary artists arrange groups of images to create large scale installations. The viewer¿s body must navigate through the installation of images to experience the work. In this class, students will investigate the use of printed multiples and repetition, serial and iterative methods, a variety of layering techniques, collaboration, and print¿s social potential through image dissemination and public display. Students will learn how to think and make in groups of images, with a focus on both exhibition based and site-specific print installations.

Students will be exposed to a wide variety of multi-disciplinary artists working within print installation or influenced by printmaking structures including Hanne Darboven, Jennifer Bartlett, Geta Br¿tescu, William Pope.L, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jenny Holzer, Wade Guyton, Charline von Heyl, Fischli and Weiss, Dieter Roth, Es Devlin, Kara Walker, Ed Ruscha, Allen Ruppersberg, Sarah Charlesworth, Jitish Kallat, Vija Celmins, Raymond Pettibon, James Turrell, Martin Puryear, Daniel Garcia Andujar, and Felix Gonzales Torres. Additionally, because time becomes a major factor when viewing print installations in space, this class will also explore temporal disciplines including video art, fashion, dance, and music.

Students will learn printmaking processes including relief printing, monotypes, digital process, and transfer techniques. The class will culminate in a final project where each student will make a personal print installation using the multiples they created. Elements of this installation will be completed in real space, in addition to a mock print installation displayed through architectural drawings and prints, 3D modeling computer programs (using the Adobe Suite and Google Sketch Up), and scaled sculptural models.

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.

Prerequisite: Must be a sophomore to enroll.

Many printmakers make sculptures. Many sculptors make prints. This course focuses on the connections between relief printmaking and welded metal sculpture. When an artist is interpreting the same idea between two and three dimensions, the forms take on new lives and previously unseen relationships are formed. This class will meet in the Printmedia shop with metal fabrication instruction and assignments occurring in the metal shop.

Students will learn metal fabrication and welding processes including oxy/acetylene welding, MIG welding, and shaping sheet metal using a torch. In the print shop, students will learn a variety of relief printing processes with a focus on layering. Students will utilize hand carving, CNC routed matrixes, and painterly marks. By zooming in and out on small formal moments, ideas will be translated and remixed across dimensions. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of artists working between sculpture and printmaking/drawing including Martin Puryear, Kiki Smith, Richard Hunt, Judy Pfaff, Willard Boepple, Richard Rezac, Ruth Asawa, Leonardo Drew, Alyson Shotz, Fred Wilson, Joan Jonas, David Nash, Wangechi Mutu, Jannis Kounellis, Frank Stella, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Jenny Holzer, Huma Bhabha, Ann Hamilton, Rachel Whiteread, Do Ho Suh, Christopher Wool, and Ursula Von Rydingsvard.

Students will complete a series of small to midsize sculptures in tandem with a series of relief prints. The class will culminate in a mock exhibition where student¿s sculptures and prints will interact as the viewer¿s body moves through the space.