Richard Hull

An advanced investigation of drawing as an organizing tool for thought and personal image exploration. Students work with both assigned and independently conceived problems. Topic: Form Invention - The exploration of representation strategies beyond direct perception and conventional visual modes. Procedures will include exaggeration and omission, stylization and abstraction, composite and hybrid forms, secondary and double images, visual puns and rhymes, and multi-perspectival representation. Examples will be drawn from the span of art history, East and West and from contemporary practice and visual culture. There will be studio problems and exercises, sketchbook assignments, individual projects, slide presentations, and museum visits.

This studio class will be an exploration of the premise that all paintings are abstract. Whether an image is found and formed from observation or imagination, that image is ultimately an abstraction of its source. We will address issues of Abstraction, Representation, and Conceptualism. Shape, color, composition and intent--no matter what the image--will be the class's focus.

This is a studio class. There will be no readings. Examples of other artist work will be given in response to the individual student's work.

Every assignment is based on the students own work. All the assignments are surprises. The students will work a lot, some make more work than others.

The aim of this course is to combine the tactile object-making of visual art with a stripped-down, short-hand approach to video production. Students would be challenged to complete their own original video work using decidedly low-tech tools, dividing their semester into conceptualizing, prop/costume/set-making, shooting and editing. Frequent screenings, readings and discussions would center around the rich history of visual artists experimenting with time-based media, touching on the silent film era, avant-garde cinema, early video art and the redefinition of ' TV ' currently unfolding on the internet. Artists discussed would include Georges Melies, Jacques Tati, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, Tony Oursler , Miranda July, Sadie Benning, John Waters, Ryan Trecartin.

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.