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Matt Morris

Assistant Professor, Adjunct

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Bio

BFA, 2007, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH; MFA, 2013, and Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2013, Northwestern University, Evanston IL. Exhibitions: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Cherry & Lucic, Portland, OR; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; Block Museum of Art, Evanston; The Poor Farm, Manawa, WI; Queer Thoughts, Chicago; Gallery 400, Chicago; PEREGRINEPROGRAM, Chicago. Publications: Artforum.com; Flash Art; ARTnews; Monsters & Dust; Newcity; Art Papers; Sculpture Magazine; Cincinnati CityBeat; various monographs and catalogues. Bibliography: Temporary Art Review; Chicago Tribune; INSIDE\WITHIN; Chicago Reader; Cincinnati Citybeat. Awards: Harold Arts Residency; Northwestern Graduate Fellowship.

Current Interests

Institutional critique, perfume and olfactory art projects, social justice movements, gender and sexuality studies, abstraction as language and syntax, Marguerite Duras, Florine Stettheimer, Marcel Broodthaers, Sturtevant, feminist retoolings of psychoanalysis, interior decorating, embroidery, comic books

 

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

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

1649

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

1950

Credits

3

Description

The purpose of this course is to provide an informal critique situation where students from various disciplines meet once a week to present and discuss their work. The faculty leader facilitates the discussion, which is designed to help students articulate a critique of their own work as well as the work of other students.

Class Number

2260

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

2342

Credits

3

Description

The Graduate Projects course allows students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work and research from their home studio or mobile platforms. The continued development of ideas and approaches initiated during the summer Graduate Studio Seminar will be supported through in-person and online conversation with SAIC Program Mentors. These liaisons are intended to support the off-campus development of work while also providing personal connections to SAIC's vast global network of distinguished alumni. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.

Class Number

2466

Credits

3