![]() ![]() Secondly, students were asked to consider “movement” – in order to “build a thing that moves and paint it". ![]() First, they were asked to think about the space around the body by creating a diorama, built from reclaimed materials, to house a figure, asking the question about environments, generally, and ecosystems as bodies. To do this, students offered creative responses to the fundamental challenges of observational painting from life and expanded these ideas broadly through three process studies and a final artwork. In the context of the current climate of COVID, social change, and environmental justice and in anticipation of new ways of thinking about the body or bodies students also navigated alternate methods painting from the observation, in their home studios and without a model. Accompanied by texts selected from philosophy, cultural studies, and literature that speaks to a number of issues human impact on the planet, speculations on symbiotic human/non-human relationships, decolonization, systemic racism, and Black Futures, students considered the subject of contemporary figuration and representation through a series of exploratory process artworks and critical texts to dismantle academic figure painting and its coded histories. ![]() The course was offered in an online asynchronous format with students working on several artworks and related readings to unravel current debates and discussions through collective discourse and artmaking. ![]() This exhibition highlights the work created by students in Natalie Majaba Waldburger’s Drawing and Painting studio/seminar class “Meta-Figure: The Body in Paint” this past Summer. ![]()
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