A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
A headshot of SAIC faculty member Rebecca Walz.

Rebecca Walz

Lecturer

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Bio

Education: MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Exhibitions: The Carnegie Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; LAXART; Breese Little; Abbaye Saint–Magloire Galerie; Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore; International Museum of Surgical Science; The Suburban; Western Exhibitions; Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL; Joan Flasch Artist’s Books Collection; The Art Collection of Hobart and William Smith Colleges; The Kinsey Institute of Sex, Gender, and Reproduction Special Collections; Microsoft Collection. Bibliography: Fulgar Press; Journal of Extreme Anthropologie; The New York Times; Artforum; Newcity; Cephalophore Publications; and the Religious Studies Review Journal. Residencies & Awards: Yaddo; The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Program; The International Museum of Surgical Science; Vermont Studio Center; Ragdale Foundation; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center for the Arts; Oxbow School of Art.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This course investigates the relationship between eroticism, excess, artistic practice, and modes of representation. Taking an interdisciplinary and transgeneric approach (with readings in theory, history, philosophy, psychology, and literature), the course will treat a variety of mediums, with special emphasis on painting, drawing, and adjacent practices. Instructors frame the concept of ?erotics? as a mode of practice that investigates and integrates sex, gender, and a variety of ambivalent movements, for example, the play of form and formlessness, figuration and monstrosity, taboo and transgression, attraction and repulsion, incorporation and excretion, abjection and sublimity. Key ideas discussed in class include sex/uality, gender, difference, bodies, ritual, violence, representation, desire, ?perversion.? Students will read texts from art theory and history, psychoanalysis, literature, and psychology. Throughout the class, they will be asked to synthesize course readings and discussions with their own artistic practice.

Class Number

2290

Credits

3

Description

This course investigates the relationship between eroticism, excess, artistic practice, and modes of representation. Taking an interdisciplinary and transgeneric approach (with readings in theory, history, philosophy, psychology, and literature), the course will treat a variety of mediums, with special emphasis on painting, drawing, and adjacent practices. Instructors frame the concept of ?erotics? as a mode of practice that investigates and integrates sex, gender, and a variety of ambivalent movements, for example, the play of form and formlessness, figuration and monstrosity, taboo and transgression, attraction and repulsion, incorporation and excretion, abjection and sublimity. Key ideas discussed in class include sex/uality, gender, difference, bodies, ritual, violence, representation, desire, ?perversion.? Students will read texts from art theory and history, psychoanalysis, literature, and psychology. Throughout the class, they will be asked to synthesize course readings and discussions with their own artistic practice.

Class Number

2291

Credits

3