A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
Judith Geichman, an adult person with a fair skintone, medium length gray hair and glasses standing in a gallery space.

Judith Geichman

Professor, Adjunct

Bio

BS, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Awards

Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grants to Artists award, Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, 1983,89, Margaret Klimek Phillips Fellowship, The American Academy in Rome, Artists Residency, The Dora Maar Maison Artist Residency, Menerbres, France, AIR Residency, Krems, Austria, Edward Ryerson Traveling Fellowship, SAIC, Marion Krycka Excellence in Teaching Award, The School of the Art Institute, The Visual Arts Fellowship Grant, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Margaret Klimek Phillips Fellowship Award, Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, American Academy in Rome, Artist Residency, Gilfelag Artists Residency, Akureyri, Iceland.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions: Regard's Chicago, The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI, The University Club of Chicago, Spertus Museum, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL, Julius Caesar Gallery, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The University Club of Chicago, Booth School of Economics, University of Chicago Collections: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Rockford Art Museum.

Publications

Gareth Kaye, Chicago Spleen, Artist's Lecture Series, Vienna, Austria, Keepers of the Faith, Peter Plagens, Newsweek, Forms of Contemporary Illinois, James Yood, Link, by Dana DeGuiio and Molly Zuckerman Hartung, Chicago Cultural Center, Michael Bulka. Bibliography: Fabrik Magazine, LTD Magazine, Chicago Magazine, Newsweek, NewCity, PaintersTable.com, New American Painting.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

Manipulate Space, Deconstruct Form, Re-Invent Your Visual World.


This course will explore different form and space making systems as they relate to abstraction. Slide presentations throughout the semester will focus on abstraction and different artist, art movements, elements of visual language, and concepts past and present, all to engage and open students visual ideas and art making practice. Students will be encouraged to pursue their own ideas and imagery as they work with the course material. Painterly drawing will be explored, as well as drawing from a live model. Field trips are scheduled in the curriculum.

Class Number

1787

Credits

3

Description

This course investigates painting materials, application, color, form, and ideas through contemporary and traditional methodologies. Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through a skill-based curriculum as well as individual projects. This course serves as a requirement and preparation for topic-based Painting Studio Multi-Level B classes.

Class Number

1801

Credits

3

Description

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.

Class Number

2158

Credits

3 - 6