Scott Reeder

This drawing studio serves as a broad introduction to historical and contemporary drawing practices. This course presents drawing as an organizer of thought, experience, and image.

Students will investigate a full range of drawing materials and supports. Lectures and exercises introduce various concepts of drawing, possibly including illusionistic form and space, gesture and expressive mark-making, or collage and found imagery, depending on the instructor?s emphasis.

Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through technical drawing exercises, material explorations, and individual projects. Structured classroom critiques will bring drawing concepts into personal student work.

In this Study Trip Intensive, students will learn about the dynamic art histories of Mexican American/Chicanx, Black American and other contemporary artists living and working in Los Angeles. Students will visit museums, galleries, and community centers dedicated to nurturing, showcasing, and archiving the art of people of color, including Black- and Latinx-founded art institutions. Students will meet curators, artists and other art professionals, be given private tours to view historical sites and modern and contemporary art, including MOCA, the Brick, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture; LACMA, The Hammer Museum. The Watts Towers, Human Resources and the Performance Art Museum. The class will participate in at least one artist-led art-making workshop and visit the studios of a wide range of Los Angeles based artists including Rafa Esparza, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Charles Gaines, Patty Chang, Laura Owens, Nakita Gale, Rebecca Morris, Mark Bradford, Cauleen Smith, Anna Sew Hoy, Anna Betbeze, Brooklin A. Soumahoro, and Carolyn Castaño.

This course will explore the many varied possibilities of humor and painting. Through studio work, readings, presentations, and in class critique students will investigate both funny Ha Ha and funny Peculiar; drawing inspiration from alternative figures in art history as well as alternative approaches to making. Special emphasis will be placed on artists who employ an interdisciplinary studio practice.
Some examples of artists to be discussed; Martin Kippenberger, Dieter Roth, David Shrigley, Paul McCarthy, Brenna Murphy, The Hairy Who, The Gutai Movement, Erwin Wurm, Rachel Harrison, Maurizio Cattelan, Arte Povera, Tom Friedman, Jessica Stockholder, Sigmar Polke, Francis Picabia.

This course will explore the many varied possibilities of humor and painting. Through studio work, readings, presentations, and in class critique students will investigate both funny Ha Ha and funny Peculiar; drawing inspiration from alternative figures in art history as well as alternative approaches to making. Special emphasis will be placed on artists who employ an interdisciplinary studio practice.
Some examples of artists to be discussed; Martin Kippenberger, Dieter Roth, David Shrigley, Paul McCarthy, Brenna Murphy, The Hairy Who, The Gutai Movement, Erwin Wurm, Rachel Harrison, Maurizio Cattelan, Arte Povera, Tom Friedman, Jessica Stockholder, Sigmar Polke, Francis Picabia.

In this Study Trip Intensive, students will learn about the dynamic art histories of Mexican American/Chicanx, Black American and other contemporary artists living and working in Los Angeles. Students will visit museums, galleries, and community centers dedicated to nurturing, showcasing, and archiving the art of people of color, including Black- and Latinx-founded art institutions. Students will meet curators, artists and other art professionals, be given private tours to view historical sites and modern and contemporary art, including MOCA, the Brick, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture; LACMA, The Hammer Museum. The Watts Towers, Human Resources and the Performance Art Museum. The class will participate in at least one artist-led art-making workshop and visit the studios of a wide range of Los Angeles based artists including Rafa Esparza, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Charles Gaines, Patty Chang, Laura Owens, Nakita Gale, Rebecca Morris, Mark Bradford, Cauleen Smith, Anna Sew Hoy, Anna Betbeze, Brooklin A. Soumahoro, and Carolyn Castaño.

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.

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.