BRIAR M. PINE
Drawing Permutations
Course DescriptionThe Alfred Foundations’ first semester, which is comprised of both Foundations 101 and 102, is drawing centric. It is also being-centric: Both courses in this first semester are designed to create and emphasize embodied experiences for student-artists. The tactile, the present moment and the experiential are central to this philosophy. Material considerations become material knowledge.
Foundations 102 decodes the act of drawing in the second dimension into further dimensions: volumetric, time-based and speculative. It draws upon the specific lenses through which drawing is viewed amongst the Schools of Art and Design’s divisions. Students will thus touch and engage with a wide variety of materials in this course: digital and time-based methods, sculptural materials, and non-traditional materials and processes will all be explored.