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Emily Nicole Murray

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Emily Nicole Murray is an artist living and working in Chicago. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and holds a BFA in Painting from Sonoma State University. Her work encompasses and exists in the tension, time, and layering between trauma, grief, and humor. She makes paintings and calls them writings before making writings and calling them paintings. Drawings are just drawings. Murray is interested in the point where nihilism becomes absurdism and the depth and simplicity of the phrase, “If I don’t laugh, I’ll cry.”

Courses

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Description

This drawing studio serves as a broad introduction to historical and contemporary drawing practices. This course presents drawing as an organizer of thought, experience, and image.

Students will investigate a full range of drawing materials and supports. Lectures and exercises introduce various concepts of drawing, possibly including illusionistic form and space, gesture and expressive mark-making, or collage and found imagery, depending on the instructor?s emphasis.

Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through technical drawing exercises, material explorations, and individual projects. Structured classroom critiques will bring drawing concepts into personal student work.

Class Number

1597

Credits

3

Description

This drawing studio serves as a broad introduction to historical and contemporary drawing practices. This course presents drawing as an organizer of thought, experience, and image.

Students will investigate a full range of drawing materials and supports. Lectures and exercises introduce various concepts of drawing, possibly including illusionistic form and space, gesture and expressive mark-making, or collage and found imagery, depending on the instructor?s emphasis.

Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through technical drawing exercises, material explorations, and individual projects. Structured classroom critiques will bring drawing concepts into personal student work.

Class Number

1890

Credits

3