Tag Archives: Drawing & Collage
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Well Beyond Everyday
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Well Beyond Everyday
If you are interested in how everyday materials can become bizarre and (sometimes) brilliant sculpture, there are three shows ready and waiting for you in Chelsea: Nayland Blake’s What Wont Wrong at Matthew Marks; B. Wurtz’s Recent Works at Metro Pictures; and Mark Dion’s two-floor delight titled Drawings, Prints, Multiples and Sculptures at Tanya Bonakdar.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Messing with the Stuff
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Messing with the Stuff
In order for students to feel comfortable expressing themselves with a particular medium, they often have to spend plenty of time messing with the stuff they are interested in shaping- be it car parts, plastics, plaster or paint- before they may be ready to create high quality works. A few artists I find myself recommending to students when it comes to specifically “messing” with paint and thinking like an abstract painter include Hans Hoffman, Helen Frankenthaler, Howard Hodgkin and Jessica Stockholder.
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Columnist Amelia Ishmael speaks with Antwerp-based visual artist, graphic designer, and musician Niels Geybels, whose various practices often overlap.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Before we continue talking about last week’s “Speak About What’s Unspeakable,” I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a constructive note by looking back at some of the most teachable moments- events, exhibits, chance happenings and other opportunities – that made for uncanny entry points in the classroom…
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Combining (Complicating?) Ideas
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Combining (Complicating?) Ideas
Years ago I had a professor who was a bit cruel when it came to giving feedback. But one piece of feedback he gave me has influenced my teaching, especially in units like this one. He once said, exasperated over my inability to get to the next step on a piece, “Joe, you call these ideas?? Put them together and make one good one!”
In the spirit of this advice which has resonated with me for years I have asked my own students to begin combining ideas in order to more fully explore and depict the theme and subject they have chosen.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
In my previous post two weeks ago I said that I was interested in encouraging students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects what we see. Can works of art “speak” to the viewer or have “conversations” with other works? If so, how? Today was the day, after a long Thanksgiving weekend, for the group to share works in progress and get some feedback from one another.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | The Past Lives of Books
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | The Past Lives of Books
Caroline Picard on the many forms that textual marginalia may take.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
If you haven’t visited already, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a wonderful oasis to add to the list of places you can see exciting work in Long Island City. This week, I am taking one of my classes to visit the current show, Visual Conversations. Through the visit I am interested in encouraging my students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects how we perceive what we see.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Now See This: Teaching with Hans-Peter Feldmann and John Baldessari
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Now See This: Teaching with Hans-Peter Feldmann and John Baldessari
I have always been interested in the way certain artists, more so than others, have the ability to take us by the hand (or the eye) and walk us through works of art very deliberately. Because the “subject” is often about the whole work and not a single focal point, these artists persuade us to compare and contrast, and see the small differences as well as the commonalities.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Uncovering Works of Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Uncovering Works of Art
Monday evening I had the pleasure of participating in a dynamite online conversation with our current group of Art21 Educators. We decided, based on some requests we received recently, to spend a little time actually looking at art together.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
TASK Unplugged
Teaching with Contemporary Art
TASK Unplugged
This year, to begin the fourth annual Art21 Educators Institute, we will start our nine days with Oliver Herring and TASK at Luhring Augustine Gallery in Brooklyn. In a year that has in some ways been about “restraints” inspired by Matthew Barney, we will be running TASK with three materials: pencil, paper and string.
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim
Ali Fitzgerald reviews Roman Ondák’s exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, which features an artwork incorporating the severed wing of an airplane.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 2
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 2
The second of a two-part conversation between Marissa Perel and Whitney Biennial artist Dawn Kasper.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art Turns Four
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art Turns Four
No sooner are we celebrating our upcoming fourth year with Art21 Educators as I am reminded that the Teaching with Contemporary Art column also turns four this week. Looks like I’ll be playing the fourth horse in the fourth race this weekend. Last year I celebrated by looking back over the first three years but today I’d like to just look back over the past twelve months because it’s been quite a ride. Here are some highlights since last spring.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Lily Simonson confronts mortality and the expansive scale of the universe on viewing Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Sky Ladder” at MOCA Los Angeles.
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout
Jacolby Satterwhite’s multi-media project “Country Ball” merges the practices of “insider” and “outsider” artists: he incorporates drawings made by his mentally ill mother, Patricia.
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