Scott Reeder

Using an irreverent love of painting and an absurdly oedipal desire to destroy it, this class looks at ways to create fantastical, hybridized, bastardized offspring ?paintings? in the expanded field. We will connect painterly gestures with non-traditional surfaces such as modular, flat-pack, and portable sculptural form, found objects, architectural space, virtual space, video projection, performative action, and the body. Color workshops, woodshop authorizations, material sourcing field trips, video projection/performance workshops, and site-specific installations will be components of this class. A willingness to experiment, invent, imagine, and fail is required.

Artists shown will range from historical figures such as Robert Rauschenberg, Sam Gilliam, Elizabeth Murray, Lynda Benglis, and Eva Hesse, to contemporary practitioners such as Jessica Stockholder, Katharina Grosse, Tomashi Jackson, Anna Betbeze, Liu Bolin, Abigail DeVille, Yvette Mayorga, Alexis Teplin, Brian Bress, Donna Huanca, Rachel Rose, Takeshi Murata, Ben Jones, and Lee Wen. Readings will vary but typically include Thomas McEvilley's 'Thirteen Ways of Addressing a Blackbird', 'Mapping: The Intelligence of Artistic Work' by Anne West, and ?Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age? edited by Ammer, Hochdorfer, and Joselit.

The semester will consist of three ambitious projects and critiques: 1. Draped Skins; 2. Goopy Objects; 3. Body Actions. Slide presentations and required readings will be assigned.

This studio explores specific problems in each student's area of concentration and interest. Students are expected to command familiarity with problems of color, composition, and basic materials.

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.