No Wave on Avenue A

Lately I’ve been feeling nostalgic for the mixed tapes I made for my Sony Walkman in the 1980s. I’d take the train into NYC from suburban ennui. My adolescent life had a sound track and it sounded something like this.

America is one big gay disco

This month I’m listening to allot of dance music, the gayer the better. This playlist begins with Louis La Roche’s “One Big Gay Disco,” which spins a very danceable track around a rightwing christian nationalist rant against “smug elites” and “gays”, and “disco”. What a great way to turn a …

Body as Form

A sculpture studio exploring the body as a site of intervention. Building upon the abstract principles of art and design this course serves as a pedagogical bridge between introductory sculpture and three dimensional design studios. The common vehicle for all of our three dimensional study in this course is the …

Introduction to CERAMICS

This introductory graduate level ceramic studio introduces multiple making methods from sculptural modeling, and throwing forms on the wheel, to mold making, and slip casting.

Experimental Ceramics

Expressionism and experimentation in ceramics. This course is open to artists, designers, and more experienced students who have taken Ceramic Fundamentals. Through various theme-based projects, students develop sophisticated proposals and are supported through innovative sculpture, model and mold making workshops. Ceramics can blur the lines between art, design and craft. …

Teaching Methodology: A framework for critical thinking and reflection on art

As an artist and educator, I work to facilitate open and collaborative spaces where students can grow through problem-based learning strategies, which holistically explore making skills from multiple disciplines as well as conceptual strategies to help young artists and designers build confidence in their abilities, develop visual vocabularies, and articulate …

Look and Touch / Form, Material, and Modularity

Using the slab roller, extruder, coil, pinch, or wheel, make a sequence of modular forms that explore surface variables through touch as well as sight. Consider the gestalt of texture, form, structure, rhythm, material variation and physical interaction. Actions + Deliverables The project with all deliverables is due during the …

Winter Palace

I am happy to share that three of my newest ceramic assemblages from an ongoing series titled A Queer Pentimento will be included in this group exhibition exploring the inherent dichotomies of ostentatious wealth and privilege in contrast with a searching critique of societal imbalance and deprivation. These three sculptural …

Ink, Press, Repeat

Ink, Press, Repeat; a national juried group exhibition of contemporary prints curated by master printmaker Susan J. Goldman, brings together the work of fifty artists from across the United States and features the New York City based artist Andrew Cornell Robinson’s grand-prize winning print Vanitas 6, which was created while …

Forensic Self Portrait

An undergraduate drawing assignment, which kicks off an interdisciplinary studio course exploring visual language and meaning.