ART 210 RELATIVITY OF COLOR
To prepare for the Fall 2021 semester, in addition to teaching Painting, Advanced Painting, and Advising BFA Thesis students, I will teach a new-for-me color theory course. So I spent much of the spring researching texts, and much of the summer writing the "Relativity of Color" course syllabus, schedule, and the first assignments and lectures. I just launched it this past week...due to pandemic and CUNY campuses all moving to online, it is being offered via BlackBoard.
After scanning dozens of texts, purchasing and looking more closely at about thirty, and narrowing my options for the required student text to three, I finally landed on Steven Bleicher's Contemporary Color: Theory & Use. It's an inclusive examination of the topic, and ultimately inspired me to write a dozen, what I think are exciting-and-relevant-to-the-21st-Century Color Theory Assignments.
Since the course will be delivered online asynchronously, I've spent a good deal of time building the Bb course site, and am still in the process of adding later-in-the-semester slide lectures.
(I've been simultaneously preparing to teach an Introduction to Painting course, as well as four BFA Thesis students. During the past days, I've met all 40 of my Fall 2021 students, and as the coming few weeks unfold, we will establish our rhythms...)
And soon I will shift my focus to reading for my own Thesis work. "The Affect Theory Reader" edited by Melissa Gregg and Gregory J. Seigworth, and "The Real Desire" by Robyn Ferrell sit beside me. Ferrell will be one of my 2-3 PhD Committee Advisors, so I especially look forward to this read.
Meanwhile, last weekend I participated in New York's "Upstate Art Weekend" at the Poetry Barn with six of my Pink Drishti paintings. See them in the context of this website’s Pink Paintings portfolio. Earlier this summer I had eight new Pandemic Paintings at Firebox Art Studios Renewal exhibition. I look forward to a beginning a new body of color-based work.
Note: My Spring 2021 color course prep is what inspired me to write my PhD project and application...hence this early PhD Blog post.
