TUESDAY - Group Critique: Materiality + Experimentation in Painting - Loren Erdrich
TUESDAY - Group Critique: Materiality + Experimentation in Painting - Loren Erdrich
ONLINE - 8 weeks
Payment Plans + Financial Aid
Day of the week: Tuesday
Class Dates: September 26, October 3, October 10, October 17, October 24, November 7, November 14, November 21 — [ No class on October 31 ]
Time: 7:00-9:00pm (EST) / 4:00-6:00pm (PST) / 7:00-9:00am (Hong Kong)
Length: 2 hrs.
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Group Critique: Materiality + Experimentation in Painting
Online course via Zoom
Faculty: Loren Erdrich
About the course:
Artists in the Group Critique course will meet via Zoom and will present their work to the group and faculty member, Loren Erdrich. The intimate class offers each artist the opportunity to present artworks twice to the group and will focus on exploration and discussion of new methods of making paintings and material application. The first crit is an initial brief presentation to the group about your work and goals for this course. The second crit is a longer-form critique at 30 minutes, which will provide each artist feedback, context and research based prompts by faculty and peers. Each class will be recorded for artists to review artist talks and presentations; in addition the chat will always be saved for those wanting to review notes from their critique.
The dialogue around the critiques is research driven and peer driven. All artists in the group play a valuable role in giving feedback and suggestions that will respectively help each artist presenting. Artists are expected to come prepared for their critique / presentation with essential questions about their work and thinking to help frame the dialogue for them. Artists are welcome to show works in progress, finished work, painting, drawing, video stills, textiles, mixed media, small sculpture and video.
Artists in this course:
Will participate in a class size of 10 artists max
Receive 2 opportunities for critiques & feedback: one introduction to the class and one 30+ minutes critique / presentation to the class
Receive written feedback from peers and faculty every presentation via Zoom chats
Artist Talk & Q&A by Guest Speaker: Katarina Janeckova Walshe
Get weekly prompts + challenges to reinvigorate each artist’s approach and artistic practice
Engage in conversation about painting materials + alternative methods
Learn about new artists, suggested films, readings and exhibitions to see
Testimonial:
“Really learned so much in this class, it pushed me to want to make more truthful work and to look at my own art critically.”
- Emily Gorum (participated in Loren Erdrich’s Summer 2023, in-person Group Critique: Materiality + Experimentation Course)
Guest Speaker:
Katarina Janeckova Walshe, born 1988 in Slovakia, currently lives and works in Corpus Christi, Texas, works across media, employing paper, canvas, bedsheets and a wide array of markmaking tools to skewer received notions of authentic culture, gender norms, sexual expression, national pride, social progress, and age-appropriate behaviors. Her process is free-ranging, improvisational and fearless, and she uses her own sexuality, motherhood, and identity as a painter as characters in the scenes she envisions. Her critical attention and transgressive methodologies have most recently been trained on the fallacies of contemporary American life, a happy outgrowth of time spent in Texas, even as her relentless commitment to social justice and the transformative and cathartic potential for figurative painting remains free of geographical site or national character. Most recently, her pictures have been populated by women whose gendered, bountiful “mothering” has been pushed to absurd ends, whose bodies have become amalgamations of hypersexualized “cut-outs,” and whose foils are most frequently an army of randy, proud, endearing and occasionally foolhardy cowboys.
Faculty Bio:
Loren Erdrich (b. 1978) lives and works in New York City where she is currently represented by SHRINE. Her undergraduate degrees include a BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA in 2000, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL in 2005. In 2007 she received her MFA from the Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Erdrich has participated in many exhibitions including Harper’s (East Hampton, NY); Spring Break Art Show (New York, NY); Nicodim Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Superzoom (Miami, FL); Guts Gallery (London, UK) and Herrero Tejada (Madrid, SP). In 2023 Erdrich presented a solo exhibition at SHRINE (New York, NY) following a two-person presentation with the gallery at The Armory Show in 2022. Erdrich has also been awarded residencies at Yaddo; Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency; Jentel Foundation; Santa Fe Art Institute; Sculpture Space; Vermont Studio Center; and Art Farm Nebraska. Her work has been written about in publications such as Cultured; FAD; ArtMaze; Maake; the Chicago Tribune and Il Giornale Dell’Arte. She frequently collaborates with the poet Sierra Nelson, coauthoring the award winning I Take Back the Sponge Cake (published by Rose Metal Press, 2012) and Isolation (limited edition artist book, 2020), and in 2021 she collaborated with the fashion designer Marc Jacobs to incorporate her paintings into their Resort line.
Financial Aid is available. NYC Crit Club provides payment plans, BIPOC scholarships and additional aid based on extenuating circumstances. Please click here to learn more before enrolling.
