HUMN 311 S003: Visual Art Seminar
These seminars are taught from the viewpoint of a practicing artist, and focus historical and/or contemporary issues relevant to particular disciplines or subjects. Seminars develop student critical awareness of the content and context of cultural production in relation to a wide range of practices and theories. Students attend lectures and discussion groups; in addition they are required to undertake research, give presentations, complete visual projects, and write papers. Descriptions of specific seminar topics will be included with registration packages.
Topic: Drawing Faces
This seminar provides an opportunity to investigate contemporary ideas of portraiture within drawing. Rather than pursuing the idea of a portrait as a fixed, singular image we will consider representations of the face as an ambiguous, shifting field of interaction and interpretation.
Faces represent an individual’s unique characteristics as well as the features shared by all faces. While the act of drawing a face represents the desire to know and understand someone else it also reminds us that our understanding of another person is always partial, incomplete and provisional. Within this process we represent both engagement with and alienation from the other; portraits represent ambivalent, intersubjective experience. Portraits also encourage us to understand ourselves as we contemplate the image of someone else; creating images of faces provides an opportunity to explore the relationship between the self and other, as well as the selves within the self. Diverse formal and theoretical frameworks for representing faces will be investigated through readings, presentations and assignments.
Completion of Second Year or Equivalent.
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Elizabeth MacKenzie has lived and worked in a number of Canadian cities including Toronto, Saskatoon, Edmonton and currently, Vancouver. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and received her MFA from the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon). Her work in drawing, installation and video has been represented in numerous festivals and exhibitions across Canada, United States and Europe. Her drawings were included in Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver organized by Presentation House Gallery (North Vancouver) in 2001 as well as For the Record: Drawing for Contemporary Life at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2003.
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Jan 9-Apr 21 08:30:00-11:20:00 |
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