Intro Painting: Process as Evidence

3 units

Focusing on process-oriented methods to building an image, this studio course intends to foster an inventive and expansive relationship to paint and mixed media, shying away from the resolved or static image in favor of systematic and poetic strategies that emerge from studio activity along the way. Collage and assemblage, documenting and recording experience, operations of chance and failure, and time-based approaches are all possible avenues of investigation. Students will develop a portfolio of work informed by assigned projects, readings, and group discussions that engage with historical precedents and contemporary examples of process-informed methods in painting. This introductory course can serve as a prerequisite to upper level classes in Painting. This class has no prerequisite courses and are open to students with sophomore standing and above.