2D Studies: Shape Shifters, analog and digital collages, 2023
This project considers the translation of three-dimensional objects to a two-dimensional plane using paper collage, Photoshop, and inkjet printing. Students develop an understanding of the camera and flatbed scanner as tools for composition and documentation.
2D Studies: handmade artist books, 2023
Students explore the book form as landscape and research tool. Each book is inspired by the life of a contemporary artist, including Hilma af Klint, Kiki Smith, David Hockney and Trenton Doyle Hancock.
2D Studies: Thought-Forms, gouache on laser-cut plywood, 2023
An homage to Annie Besant's Thought-Forms publication of 1905, which centers spirituality and theosophy. Students intervene and develop their own Thought-Form. They employ Illustrator, laser cutter, and painting to visualize a state of being, cyclical emotion, or sensation. This serves as a diaristic framework for shape, color scheme, mark-making, and a short piece of writing that elaborates on their Thought-Form's name.
2D-Studies: Line Play, tape & yarn, 2022
Students collaborate with site-responsive installations to explore line and space.
Beginning Drawing: Domestic Rubbings, charcoal and India ink, 2022
Students explore mark-making, texture, and drawing materials with repetitive rubbings and observational studies of their everyday objects.
Beginning Drawing: Contemporary Artist Homage, pastel and soft sculpture, 2022
First conducting research at the Fine Arts Library, students respond to the life and work of a contemporary artist with an experimental drawing. Above is a response to Christina Ramberg.
Intro to Relief & Intaglio: Word Play, linocut on BFK Rives, 2023
Students explore a homophone, homonym, or homograph to hone a relationship between image and language. They carve two blocks and print a more formal edition of diptychs before experimenting with color, layering, composition, and abstraction via the printing process. Two foundational carvings transform and yield a wide range of imagery.
Intro to Relief & Intaglio: 3-stage copper etching, printed on BFK Rives, 2023
Students are introduced to line etch, stage-bite aquatint, and scraping and burnishing with their first intaglio project. The malleability of copper is emphasized and constant renegotiation is encouraged. Louise Bourgeois' collection of drypoint prints are offered as an inspiration. She re-worked her plates upwards of 25 times.
Intro to Relief & Intaglio: Botanicals, copper etching on BFK Rives & Thai Kozo, 2023
This research assignment prompts students to combine their own observational drawing of a plant, herb, or fungi with an appropriated Botanical Illustration from a historical online archive. Students explore a variety of aquatint methods including soap ground, creeping water bite, coffee lift, and spit bite. Color intervention is introduced with À la poupée and Chine-collé to produce a variable edition.
Intro to Relief & Intaglio: Reduction, 4-layer woodcut on Thai Kozo, 2023
Inspired by the process of reductive woodblock printing, students visualize a habit or concept they seek to reduce within their own lives.