Sarah Faux - Course Interest List

Enroll in a Spring 2024 Course and receive a $20 discount on a
2024 Membership for the Artist Lecture Series Club.

About This Course

This 8 week Advanced Interdisciplinary Critique course led by painter and professor Sarah Faux will meet at our Chelsea, NY studio on Tuesdays from 6:30-9:00 pm. In this course, artists will present their work twice to the class, receiving two 30 - 35 minute critiques. After the first round of critiques, Sarah will create a custom assignment for each artist to focus on for their second critique. This individualized assignment will push each artist towards their own intended goals, while offering helpful structure. 

Mid-semester, students will visit Sarah’s painting studio to see an artistic practice in action. This field trip will also give the class an opportunity to visit two other artists in the wild: Sergio Miguel & Dana Robinson. These studio visits will allow students to talk shop with multiple working artists.

In this course, Sarah will also allot time to look at and discuss various artists and artistic approaches through slides and screenings. Central to this course are ideas of curiosity & intention. Through the 8 weeks, artists will hone in on their own desires and themes, asking: what questions are central to your art practice?

Artists working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media are encouraged to apply for this intimate class led by Sarah Faux.

This course will culminate in a pop-up Group Show at the NYC Crit Club / Canopy Program studio in Chelsea (NYC).

Guest Artists

Artists in this course will:

• Will participate in an intimate class size of 10 artists max

• Receive 2 30-35 critique opportunities for feedback from Sarah and peers

• Receive written feedback from peers and faculty every presentation

• Visit the studios of Sarah Faux, Dana Robinson and Sergio Miguel

• Receive a custom assignment from Sarah Faux after your first critique

• Engage in conversation about methods + materials

• Learn about new artists, suggested films, readings and exhibitions to see

• This course will culminate in a pop-up Group Show at the NYC Crit Club / Canopy Program studio in Chelsea (NYC)!

Faculty Bio

Sarah Faux (b. 1986, Boston, MA, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes paintings that embrace unabashed sensuality and pleasure. Faux's compositions teeter on the edge of reality, revealing how much of our sensory lives take place beneath the surface. Faux has held solo exhibitions at Hales New York (2023), M+B, Los Angeles (2021, 2019), Capsule Shanghai, China (2020, 2018) and Stems Gallery, Brussels (2016), among others. She has been included in many group shows, including Sim Smith, London (2023), Lyles & King, New York (2022) and Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2020). Faux has received numerous residencies and awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2023), a fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop, New York City (2018-19) and artist residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2017, 2012). Faux's paintings have been written about in Cultured Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Modern Painters, i-D Vice and Artsy, among others. Faux holds an MFA from Yale University.