Experimental Drawing 2

Experimental Drawing 2: Beyond Observation builds on the foundations of Experimental Drawing 1 and is designed for students who want to expand their drawing practice beyond representation. This course supports students as they develop an independent drawing practice or an emerging body of work.
Through structured prompts, material investigations, collaborative exercises, and discussions of contemporary artists, students will explore drawing as a conceptual, spatial, and process-based medium. The class emphasizes risk-taking, experimentation, abstraction, memory, chance, and the development of an individual visual language.
Throughout the course, students will:
- Build on foundational drawing skills
- Explore abstraction, memory, mapping, and chance operations
- Experiment with unconventional materials and expanded drawing
- Develop a personal visual language
- Receive individualized feedback and participate in group discussion
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Meet
Ari
Ari's painting lessons are tailored to unleash students' unique artistic voices, whether they're beginners exploring visual expression or advanced artists seeking critique and refinement. With a background in Fine Arts from SAIC and UCLA, Ari fosters creativity through personalized mentorship, introducing students to new materials and guiding them with generative questions to deepen their creative practice.
Ari received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Painting from UCLA. While at SAIC, Ari was the first student in ten years to be nominated and accepted to the Norfolk Summer School of Art Residency at Yale University for the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship. Ari believes creativity is within us all and fosters artistic growth through mentorship is one of the best ways to move forward in developing a creative practice.