Visiting Critic Program/Art Career Intensive with Carlos Rosales Silva (Wednesdays)
Instructor: Carlos Rosales Silva
Weekly: October 27, November 3, November 10, November 17, December 1, December 8
Time: 6:45PM - 9:00PM (EST)
Length: 2 Hours, 15 mins
Where: Online on Zoom
Faculty - Carlos Rosales Silva
The Fall 2021 Visiting Critic program offers in-depth feedback, exposure and connections with 4 respected art world critics: 2 well known artists, and 2 influential curators or gallerists. Class is led online on zoom by Carlos Rosales Silva in company with a strong group of artists from around the country. Each visiting guest critic will introduce themselves with a brief artist talk and Q+A. Next, artists in class present online slideshows of their art work and prepare questions for faculty, critics and peers. This program helps take one’s work, thinking and process in new and exciting directions.
Artists in this class:
Make connections with 4 NEW critics: 2 esteemed artists & 2 curators/gallerists.
Learn from and enjoy artist talks and critiques by critics.
Have work paired with critics who are the best fit for their work and practice.
Meet for 6 weekly, 2 hour classes online on Zoom.
Receive 4+ opportunities for critiques & feedback: two longer 12-15 min crits (with one artist and one curator/gallerist) and 2 shorter crits & presentations at the start and end of the class with the instructor and group.
Collaborate with artist peers in Zoom studio visits outside of class.
Participate in one exchange of peer review edits on artist statements.
Get weekly prompts + challenges to reinvigorate each artist’s approach and artistic practice.
Florencia Escudero
Florencia Escudero was born in Singapore in 1987 and grew up in Mendoza, Argentina. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Escudero received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2012 and a BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2010. Her works have been exhibited at Kristen Lorello, Instituto Cervantes, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Mrs. Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery among other venues. She is an editor and founder of Precog Magazine.
Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Gaby Collins-Fernandez is an artist living and working in New York City. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (B.A.) and the Yale School of Art (M.F.A., Painting/Printmaking). Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including institutionally at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama and el Museo del Barrio, NY. Collins-Fernandez is also a writer whose texts have appeared in Cultured Magazine, The Miami Rail, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.
Naomi Nakazato
Naomi Nakazato is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and installation to examine location, faulty language, and belonging within racial liminality. She holds a BA from Anderson University, South Carolina and an MFA from The New York Academy of Art, New York. Her work has recently shown at Below Grand (New York, NY), 5-50 Gallery (Queens, NY), Galerie Tracanelli (Grenoble, FR), Olympia (New York, NY), Field Projects (New York, NY), and NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY). She is a member of Olympia (New York, NY) and is represented by Below Grand (New York, NY).
Ivan Forde
Ivan Forde (b. 1990) based in NYC works across printmaking, photography, collage, sound performance, and installation. Ivan mines epic landscapes and illuminates the poetic characters that inhabit them, from literary works such as Paradise Lost, and He Who Saw The Deep (The Epic of Gilgamesh). Works in the collections of the Studio Museum, Syracuse University Art Museum, and Chapman University Art Museum. Ivan is a Paul and Daisy Soros fellow (2017) and Civitella Ranieri fellow (2019).