Summer 2020 – Inhabited Spaces: Abstraction and the Built Environment
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Inhabited Spaces: Abstraction and the Built Environment
Jordan Holms
8 Sessions >> Monday, June 8- July 27
6:00- 9:00pm, FMC 26, $385
In consideration of the historical relationship between painting and architecture, this course grapples with our fraught relationship to the built environment. Employing abstraction as a primary methodology, this course will examine how different spaces are materialized, organized, and made to mean. Mining sites that we encounter online and in the everyday, we will translate the formal elements of the built environment (color, texture, light, physicality, and depth) into the territory of abstract painting. We will conflate arbitrary divisions of public and private by collapsing ideologically oppositional spaces such as the domestic and the civic, the rural and the urban, the feminine and the masculine, in order to undermine the ways in which space is conventionally structured.
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Jordan Holms is a Vancouver-born artist and scholar who works primarily in painting and sculpture. She has exhibited internationally in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada and her work is held in multiple private collections. Her paintings have recently been included in a number of MFA survey exhibitions, featured at BAMPFA, and in Adidas’s Market Street storefront. Most recently, Holms was a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant, where she was an artist-in-residence in February 2020. She is also a 2016-2019 recipient of the San Francisco Art Institute’s Graduate Fellowship Award. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Critical and Cultural Practices from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2015 and a Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2019, where she graduated with honors. Holms is represented by Marrow Gallery in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset district.
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