this blog serves as an online resource for the students currently in drawing v, at the art academy of cincinnati, as well as for any other wandering creative-type searching for fresh ideas in contemporary art.
drawing v at the academy involves a process of encouraging more freedom, responsibility & personal decision-making in each student; it introduces students to concepts, roles, processes & practices that characterize contemporary drawing. the goal is to support each student in working toward both a personal & general definition of contemporary drawing, as well as to put contemporary drawing in context with their own work as well as with contemporary art in general.
for the next several weeks, we will be seeing five presentations on contemporary drawing topics, viewing artists who are associated with each, and discussing their concepts, techniques, and processes, as well as why they are important to contemporary drawing. students will choose 5 issues to focus on throughout the course, presenting work that reflects each of the five, one per critique period.
PRESENTATION Topics
1. Representation: Karen Kilimnik, Dave Muller, James Valerio, Adam Helmes, Robert Longo, Kara Walker, Elizabeth peyton, Ben peterson, Taylor Baldwin, Eric Fischl
2. Abstraction: Valerie Jaudon, Frank Auerbach, Aaron Morse, Chloe Pienne, Cy Twombly, Jonathan Meese, Julie Mehretu, Carroll Dunham, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Caro Liddell, Anne Lindberg, Michaela Fruhwirth, Mike Glier, Eva Hesse, Emma Kunz
3. Narrative/Text: Trenton Doyle Hancock, Banks Violette, Paul Noble, Andrew Schoultz, Violet Hopkins, Raymond Pettibon, Matthew Ritchie, Alexa Horochowski, Sue Williams, Yoshitomo Nara, Lawrence Weiner, On Kawara, Marcel Dzama, Glenn Ligon, Gary Panter
4. Media/Materials: Wangechi Mutu, Rita Ackermann, Vic Muniz, William Kentridge, Nedko Solakov, Robin Rhode, Joseph Grigley, Anna Barribal, Jonathan Borofsky, Anna Sigmond Gudmundsdottir, Johannes Vanderbeek, Meredyth Sparks, Tony Berlant, Wolfgang Laib, Christine Hiebert
5. Conceptual Drawing: Tom Marioni, Richard Long, Sol LeWitt, Mel Chin, Walter De Maria, Mark Lombardi, Jeff Davis, Cai Guo-Qiang, Dominic McGill, Dan Perjovschi, David Shrigley, Ed Ruscha, Sophie Calle
Issues
(many of these can & will relate to multiple Topics listed above)
-Figuration -Texture/Surface -Landscape/Objective Description
-Collage/Mixed Media -Process -Digital Manipulation
-Geometry/Pattern -Minimalism -Scale/Space/Venue
-Geometry/Pattern -Minimalism -Scale/Space/Venue
-performance -Animation/Sequence -Text/Language
