about Advanced Art
Brooklyn-based artist Robert Lazzarini is presenting a series of advanced courses for teens. Centering on specific themes and subjects as well as larger art historical principles, these courses will elevate participants formal abilities and critical thinking through a combination of lectures, workshops and conversations.
Topics will be wide-ranging and include analyzing individual works of art, specific art materials and techniques, visual perception, philosophy, and psychology.
Ralston Crawford, Bikini, Tour of Inspection, 1946 The Vilcek Foundation
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Hartford Wash, 1973
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Claes Oldenburg: The Store, 1961
Examining the artist’s seminal 1961 NYC installation, this course will explore aspects of installation art, gallery systems, self-promotion, happenings, and the artist book. We will discuss the origins of imagery derived from popular and commercial culture and how its use was a response to traditional art.
Starting November 5,
this course runs 4 weeks meeting once a week for 2 hours.
Tuesday, 4pm - 6pm
$1,200.
limit 8 students
Claes Oldenburg, Dual Hamburgers, 1962 Museum of Modern Art
Andre Kertesz, Distortion No. 129, 1932 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Distortion: Representation and Schema
This course will focus on the idea of distortion within specific periods of art history and how it was affected by the structured frameworks that artists worked within. We will consider how distortion can be used as an intentional abstracting device and the relationship between observation and representation.
Starting November 6,
this course runs 4 weeks meeting once a week for 2 hours.
Wednesdays, 4pm - 6pm
$1,200.
limit 8 students
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Melvin Edwards: Lynch Fragments, 1963 - present
This course will explore the series Lynch Fragments by sculptor Melvin Edwards and examine the formal issues of the work including materiality, strategies for abstraction, and the physical space around objects. We will examine representations of violence within the context of art history as well as violence in today's cultural and political climate.
Starting November 8,
this course runs 4 weeks meeting once a week for 2 hours.
Fridays, 4pm - 6pm
$1,200.
limit 8 students
Melvin Edwards, Utonga, 1988 Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Body of Work
One on one private courses will be available for the development of the artist’s body of work. This course is specifically geared to the adolescent artist who is interested in creating a cohesive group of works, textually and verbally articulating aspects of that work, and advancing their portfolios for college review.
$250. per hour
about Robert Lazzarini
Robert Lazzarini (born 1965) is an American artist working within modes of sculpture, painting, installation and printmaking. Lazzarini received his BFA in sculpture at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Widely considered to be one of the first visual artists to implement CAD/CAM technologies into fine art, Lazzarini is known for his mathematical distortions, which applied to existing objects, have the effect of confusing visual and haptic space.
Robert Lazzarini exhibits nationally and internationally. He has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art, most notably in Bitstreams (2001), an exhibition that defined digital art to that date, and the Whitney Biennial (2002). He has had solo museum exhibitions at Virginia Museum of Fine Art (2003), The Mint Museum (2006, 2018), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2009), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2011), The Contemporary Art Museum at University of Southern Florida (2019) and others.
Lazzarini is in collections worldwide such as The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Walker Art Center, The Newark Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Mint Museum, The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Hood Museum of Art, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Denver Museum of Art, The Speed Art Museum, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Museo Jumex among many others.
Robert Lazzarini, payphone, 2000 courtesy the artist and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
All classes will be held in person at Robert Lazzarini Studio
Robert Lazzarini Studio 1205 Manhattan Ave, Unit 127 Brooklyn, NY. 11222 robertlazzarinistudio@gmail.com phone 646.369.5477