Alternative Beings with Amir Fallah
Alternative Beings with Amir Fallah
$1,450.00
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| Mentor: | Amir H. Fallah |
| Cohort Type: | 💻 Virtual |
| Meeting Day: | 📅 Wednesday |
| Meeting Time: | 🕛 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST) |
| 8 Weeks: | Mar 5 - May 14 |
| Course Dates: |
March 5, 12, 26 April 9, 16, 30 May 7, 14 + Individual office hours on March 19 + April 2, 23 |
| Cohort Size: | 10 Artists |
| Cost per Credit Hour: | $60 per credit hour |
| Total Cost: |
$1450 Tuition & Financial Aid |
About This Course
Alternative Beings is an 8-week course inspired by Professor Amir H. Fallah’s focus on nontraditional approaches to identity, the body, and figuration in art. Rather than following conventional techniques in figurative painting and drawing, this course invites artists to explore portraiture by moving beyond direct physical representation. Students will engage with the human figure through symbols, archetypes, and surrogates, challenging traditional ideas of biographical work. This approach encourages a broader understanding of representation, urging artists to create work that pushes the boundaries of figurative art.
Artists Will:
- Participate in a class size of 10 artists max
- Present work twice during the course. The first presentation introduces your practice, while the second reflects progress based on critique and class feedback.
- Receive individualized prompts from Amir following the first critique.
- Attend two virtual artist talks and Q&A sessions, offering opportunities to interact with established artists.
- Redefine portraiture and figuration by exploring historical contemporary perspectives.
- Investigate experimental forms of representation, including sound, video, abstraction, and installation.
- Develop a cohesive body of work that builds on feedback and evolves throughout the course.
- Participate in group critiques and respond to prompts that question traditional ideas about the body, identity, biography, and portraiture.
- Expand their understanding of portraiture and figurative art by engaging with nontraditional materials and perspectives.
- Build a body of work that stretches their approach to representation.
- Gain insights from professional artists and fellow students, enriching their practice with diverse perspectives and strategies.
Guests
Mentor Bio
Amir H. Fallah received his BFA in Fine Art & Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in painting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include The Fowler Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings SD; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR; San Diego ICA; and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland KS. In 2009, the artist was chosen to participate in the 9th Sharjah Biennial. In 2015, Fallah received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, Fallah’s painting Calling On The Past received the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago. In 2020, Fallah was awarded the COLA Individual Artist Fellowship and the Artadia grant. In addition, the artist had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, accompanied by a catalogue, and a year-long installation at the ICA San Jose. The artist has works in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo; Deste Foundation For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Xiao Museum Of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China; McEvoy Foundation For The Arts, San Francisco; Nerman Museum, Kansas City; SMART Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Davis Museum, Massachusetts; The Microsoft Collection, Washington; Plattsburg State Art Museum, NY; Cerritos College Public Art Collection, CA; Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, CA; and Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE.
