Excellent/good/satisfying/enough/weak
(evaluation of the course/professor at Duke University's Department of Art
and Art History; this evaluation is made by the students, is anonymous and
handed at the registry at the end of the course)
course (content, structure, approach, educative value)
professor (presentation, organization, amount of knowledge, accessibility,
interactivity, involvement)
intellectual stimulation (in quantity and quality)
the level of requirements (how stimulating the course has been; quite a lot,
a lot, moderate, not much, at all)
visual materials used (slides, video, CDs, catalogues, photocopies)
comments
(the students have a 10 hours period at the beginning of the course, when,
if not persuaded by the course they can give it up)
November 2003
A day with the students from Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory
and Practice
8 MA students/ fellows
A house with two floors, every student with his/her own studio (and a shared
kitchen where they meet…)
A group of painters (each one with his/her own approach, everything is very
coherent - the studio has the same air as the works - it is a work extended
sub-consciously)
An hourly established schedule
Philip Vanderhyden - he looks for something abstract… he was so convincing
in his theoretical and conceptual argumentation that, listening to him made
me feel in a space with no definite dimensions, where the only reference point
was a quest, expressed in sound, disquiet, intelligent…
David Gracie - he painted realistically… only objects and persons from
his proximity (from his universe)
Zach Buchner painted in space… his works were a kind of models, pieces
from the real space, abstractly modified
Ryan Scheidt - he worked at random… with dice, other people were choosing
colors, forms…
Joe Pflieger was as if looking with half-opened eyes… he was only interested
in what could be captured by the juncture…
Alex had a "tactile" painting; concave or convex forms, round, of
different sizes… like a hidden pain that moves under the skin (an older
series) and more recently a fretted painting
Mike Ellis hyperrealist with revealed jamming… where you expected less,
something else happened, than you were prepared to see/recognize (he wasn't
working after photographs but after digital images from the memory of his
laptop)
KellyMarie Breslin was trying consciously the coming out into the space…
a friendly and soft dog (made of textile), oversized, was hanging in the middle
of the room… the room itself had all sort of strange accidents…
another door closed a different space, where light was breaking out from,
a niche like a small blocked window, tubes, grating.
Good, or even excellent
The students were excited with their school, circumstances, professors (they
were right, each one was motivated on his/her level, on the chosen direction,
the professors were specialists, researchers, authors of theories in important
books and magazines on contemporary painting)
Lia Perjovschi
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