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BFA Drawing & Painting
Area Statement
The Drawing and Painting area of concentration prepares students to be leaders in an increasingly visual world. Painters creatively pose and solve visual problems through complex image making.
Our students learn both the conceptual and formal approaches to painting, from representation to abstraction to experimental practices. Students study pictorial space, color mixing, life studies, and painterly applications. Our students frequently travel on fieldtrips to museums, galleries and alternative spaces in Los Angeles and Orange County.
At the core of instruction are individual and group critiques conducted by faculty and visiting artists. The Drawing and Painting faculty are dedicated educators, accomplished artists and respected scholars. Our faculty are known for being actively engaged in helping each student develop her or his ideas, technical skills, confidence and professional knowledge.
Drawing and painting facilities include 24-hour studios, well-ventilated classrooms, and undergraduate and graduate exhibition galleries. Plus students have access to video, photography, motion graphics, glass, ceramic, metal, and sculpture and printmaking labs. Graduate studios, living spaces and galleries are part of our graduate facility at Grand Central Arts Center in Santa Ana, CA.
Our students are a diverse group of artists who are excelling at visualizing their distinctive experiences, cultures and voices. Students develop habits and problem solving skills that will inform a lifetime of creative endeavors. Our students become active participants in painting’s uniquely vital, and continually strong, presence in the contemporary art world.
Faculty
- Don Lagerberg, Professor, Drawing and Painting Coordinator
- Kyung Sun Cho, Professor
- Jade Jewett, Professor
- Joe Forkan, Associate Professor
Drawing and Painting Alumni
- Eric Beltz
- Carole Caroompas
- Eric Chauvin
- Michelle Fierro
- Tim Forcum
- Ken Harsha
- Maneli Jodat
- Julie Kirk
- Mark Kostabi
- Kozydan
- Tommii Lim
- Jason Maloney
- Robbie Miller
- Ann Phong
- Daniel Du Plessis
- Sharon Ryan
- Betty Shelton
- Nina Stanley
- Justin Sweet
- Wataru Todoroki
- Fred Tomaselli
- Hoang Vu
Recent visiting artists in painting
Lisa Adams, Sandow Birk, Rebecca Campbell, Scott Canty, Merion Estes, Ruby Osorio, Pippilotti Rist, Rachel Rosenthal, Peter Sheldon, Miriam Shapiro, Tyler Stallings, and Patty Wickman.
Links
We encourage you to visit The University Academic Catalog to become more familiar with the Drawing and Painting curriculum as well as the News & Culture section for art department news.