Crash Course on Contemporary Art: Painting’s Environments
Sat, May 19, 2018
2–4 pm
Erin Jane Nelson, Touch.tank.1, 2016. Archival inkjet on organza and cotton with Spanish moss, eryngium, cellophane, bay leaves, juniper berries, gypsophila, pearls, embroidered patch, and aluminum. Courtesy the artist
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Third Floor Seminar Room
This series of intensive, single-session courses, led by noted art historians and educators, offers participants an overview of current ideas and practices in contemporary American art. Each session focuses on a particular artistic medium through the lens of a timely theme that animates the work of emerging and established living artists.
Participants are welcome to register for individual sessions or for the entire series.
Crash Course on Contemporary Art: Painting’s Environments
This session considers an environmental impulse in artistic practices. We will look at the relationship between artworks and their surroundings, how artists are creating new kinds of spaces, and art’s interactions with the ecological systems that we inhabit.
Instructor: Suzanne Hudson is Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Her previous books include Robert Ryman: Used Paint and Contemporary Art: 1989–Present, and she is a regular contributor to Artforum.
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Saturday, May 12
Crash Course on Contemporary Art: The Moving Image, Between Documentation and the Imaginary
Saturday, May 19
Crash Course on Contemporary Art: Painting’s Environments
Series: $300 non-members; $250 members.
Individual session: $120 non-members; $90 members.