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Juan Angel Chavez

Assistant Professor, Adjunct

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Exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; FIGGE Art museum, Davenport, Iowa; Krennart Museum, Champaign/Urbana, Illinois; Chicago Illinois state University, Normal Illinois; MASSART, Boston Ma; University of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Linda Warren Projects, Chicago; Matthew Marks Gallery, NY, NY; Margaret Thatcher Projects, NY, NY. Community Public Art projects: Marquette Park Field House, Chicago; Iglesia San Isidro Mosaics, Chihuahua, Mexico. Commissions: Chicago Sun-Times 50th Anniversary Mural; Uprise Skateboard Shop, Chicago. Bibliography: Hoy, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader. Collections: Eaton Corporation, Cleveland Ohio; Kirkland &Ellis LLP, Chicago. Awards: Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award, Chicago; The Louis Comfort Tiffany award in NY, NY; Artadia Individual artist award NY, NY; State of Illinois Individual artist fellowship; 3Arts, Chicago and The Joan Mitchell Foundation award for painters and sculptors, NY, NY.

 

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This course is an introduction to the materials, methods, and concepts of sculpture. We will investigate making in relation to material, time and space. We will consider aspects of sculpture such as meaning, scale, process, social engagement, ephemera and site; and explore the formal properties and expressive potential of materials including mold making and casting, wood, metal and experimental media. We will combine the use of materials and methods with ideas that reflect the history of contemporary sculpture. Demonstrations and authorizations will provide students with experience and technical proficiency in sculptural production while readings and slide lectures venture into the critical discourses of sculpture.

Class Number

2006

Credits

3

Description

This course is an introduction to the materials, methods, and concepts of sculpture. We will investigate making in relation to material, time and space. We will consider aspects of sculpture such as meaning, scale, process, social engagement, ephemera and site; and explore the formal properties and expressive potential of materials including mold making and casting, wood, metal and experimental media. We will combine the use of materials and methods with ideas that reflect the history of contemporary sculpture. Demonstrations and authorizations will provide students with experience and technical proficiency in sculptural production while readings and slide lectures venture into the critical discourses of sculpture.

Class Number

1374

Credits

3

Description

Patternmaking is at the heart of metalworking, woodworking, fashion, architecture and many other disciplines. Why? Because so many materials are available in sheet form. Students in this course will investigate a range of processes by which flat sheet materials like paper, wood, metal, fabric, vinyl, and plastic can be used to make volumetric, three-dimensional forms. Patternmaking for Sculpture will teach the student digital and analogue methods of designing, cutting, and assembling 3D work. Practical strategies as well as contemporary industrial use and the history of patternmaking will be explored to give each student a range of options for making their own work, whether it be art or design.

Class Number

2014

Credits

3

Description

This course will examine strategies for working on site, gaining an understanding of the complex intersection of the social, cultural, built, and natural environment that is so essential to the creation of artist's interventions, independently or in collaboration with others, in and out of the art world. Working individually and in groups, students will conduct research, critically and creatively analyze site, identify opportunities and issues, and develop and present project proposals. The specifics of location, materials, communities, participants, partnering institutions, funding and facilitation will be identified throughout this process. This course provides pragmatic preparation for actually undertaking projects outside of the studio.

Class Number

1810

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1260

Credits

3 - 6