Color as Code w/ Sangram Majumdar [MONDAY] -- APPS CLOSED

CLOSED

Color as Code w/ Sangram Majumdar [MONDAY] -- APPS CLOSED

$1,450.00

APPS CLOSED

ONLINE Course - via Zoom

Free to Apply!
Apply by Sunday, May 19, 11:59pm (EST)

Day of the week: Monday

Time: 12:00-3:00 pm (EST) / 9:00am - 12:00 pm (PST)

Length: 3 hrs

8 Weeks of Classes: June 17, June 24, July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, July 29, August 5

About This Course

Color as Code is an 8 week virtual course which meets weekly on Mondays via Zoom. This course is open to artists working in any media.

Often overlooked, color is a powerful tool, creating perceptual, emotional, and physiological responses. It also contains signifiers and meanings that may not be obvious at first glance. We will explore these implicit and explicit possibilities as it relates to personal, political, cultural, and historical paradigms. This will in turn strengthen and particularize students' understanding and use of color in their own artwork. All content will be self-generated with guided prompts. Research examples accompanied by visiting artist lectures by Clintel Steed and Chie Fueki will help artists see various ways to digest and apply formal strategies to improve their own studio work. Demonstrations about application, color relationships, light and mood will help broaden our discussions on the critiques and questions of how each artist can better understand ‘color as code’.

Artists will have two opportunities to present their work for formal and conceptual advice by the Faculty and the class. The first critique will afford every artist a personalized prompt and assignment to consider for their second critique - with the space of several weeks in between to react to the discussion.

Please Note: This is an application-based course. Applications will be juried after the application deadline of May 19th. Artists will be notified of the application decision the week of May 20-24. Artists accepted to the course will receive a payment link for the course cost and a Financial Aid breakdown if needed.

Artists in this course will:

Will participate in a class size of 10 - 12 artists max
Dialogue about research, painting and color
Demonstrations by Sangram on how color operates in the natural world as well as within the studio.
Receive opportunities for critiques & feedback from Faculty + peers twice throughout the 8 week course.
Each artist will get a color specific assignment from Sangram about their work after critique #1 to follow up with on their second critique.
Virtual visits and Artist Talks + Q&A’s by Clintel Steed and Chie Fueki
Share and gain new perspectives to reinvigorate each other’s approach and artistic practice
Learn about new artists, suggested films, readings and exhibitions to see
Open forum to discuss all painting related + art world questions - a focus on transparency for artists who have finished school and want

Visiting Artists

Clintel Steed

Clintel Steed (b. 1977, Salt Lake City, UT) lives and works in Peekskill, New York, and holds a BFA in studio art from the Art Institute of Chicago as well as an MFA from Indiana University. He completed Advanced Studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Chie Fueki

Chie Fueki lives and works in Beacon, NY. Fueki was born in Yokohama, Japan, and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. She earned her MFA at Yale University and her BFA at The Ringling College of Art and Design. She is a recipient of the Pocantico Prize, Rockefeller Brother’s Fund (2024), UMOCA's Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting (2023), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2021-2025), American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Purchase Prize (2021, 2004) and Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2004). She is a future resident artist at the KinoSaito Residency Program, and has a forthcoming solo exhibition, Chie Fueki: Petal Storm Memory, curated by David Ross, at KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY (2024).

Faculty Bio

Sangram Majumdar (b. 1976) lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Born in Kolkata, India, Majumdar has an MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibition venues include Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke, Mumbai; Geary Contemporary, NY, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY, and Asia Society Texas Center. Selected group exhibition venues include Nathalie Karg Gallery, NY, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA, The Landing Gallery, LA and James Cohan Gallery, NY. Selected awards include a Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, Mellon Faculty Fellow in Arts, NYFA Grant in Painting, Purchase Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, a MacDowell Fellowship, a residency at Yaddo, the 2009-10 Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Grant, and a MICA Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2019 he was inducted into the National Academy of Design. His work has been reviewed and written about in Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, among others. He has also lectured on his work at numerous institutions including Columbia University, RISD, CCA, Cranbrook School of Art, Princeton University, and the New York Studio School. He is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at University of Washington.