CRN: 1924
Credits: 3
Places we have never been, or even seen, are often inscribed in our imaginations and even define our sense of who we are. This class will be a semester-long student-driven investigation into a particular “unseen” site. We will triangulate the source materials including images, television shows, writings and songs that have created this place in our minds, and search for the hidden historical, social and political forces at work in this imagined site. Through a wide range of 2D research and experimentation, including drawing, photography, collage, mapping, painting and notations, this course will culminate in a final expanded 2D project that makes this unseen site visible.
Faculty Bio:
Selena Kimball (b. Bangor, Maine) is a visual artist whose projects develop from a historical text she investigates through translations into collage, painting, sculpture, and installation. An avid researcher and a writer, Kimball has co-published several books and articles including the recent image-text collaborations “The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks” (2024) published by Twisted Spoon Press, Prague; and “Catalog of Correspondence” (2023) published as part of the new pamphlet series Art & Anthropology, RAI, UK. Her most recent solo exhibition “Ghosts in” was shown at Ulterior Gallery, NYC (2023). Kimball’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art, New York, the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, and the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest. Her work has been reviewed in The Boston Globe, The New York Observer and Frankfurter Allgemeine. Selena is a MacDowell Fellow, a NYSCA/NYFA fellow, a recipient of two Pollock-Krasner awards, a Jerome Foundation grant, and an Asian Cultural Council award. Selena lives and works in New York City where she is co-founder, with Pascal Glissmann, of the Observational Practice Lab and Associate Professor of Contemporary Art Practice at Parsons, The New School.
Image citation:
Dahn Vo, Christmas (Rome), 2012
