We are thrilled to introduce a new Symposia! program with artists Joanne Greenbaum and Astrid Dick. 

This is an incredible opportunity to work with Joanne Greenbaum who is one of the most innovative and influential artists working today.  She works in multiple mediums ranging from painting, drawing, printmaking, to sculpture and ceramics, and uses a vast range of materials such as oil paint, magic markers, clay and glass.

Artists will receive in-depth feedback on their work through several individual critiques.  There will be several individual critiques with Joanne, accompanied by Astrid as additional mentor/moderator to facilitate a potentially richer discussion.  Astrid will add her own voice on contemporary practices which has proven to be a vital and crucial aspect of mentorship in our Symposia! program.  There will also be throughout the program several critiques with Astrid. Additionally, there will be further critiques with artists Helen O’Leary and Jennifer Rochlin. 

The program is a unique chance to develop a deep and personalized conversation over an extended period of time with several accomplished voices in contemporary art. 

Running parallel to the critiques, Joanne will talk about abstraction both as it relates to the history of art and importantly, by sharing her own artistic development and evolution, processes, use of non-traditional materials, and much more.  This will allow for an open ended Q&A in addition to the one and one critiques.  In our experience, our educational format composed of analysis of an artist’s work, several mentors at a time, and a curriculum component with group discussion, makes it truly outstanding.  

A key aspect of the program is that it takes place over eight months, allowing the time and space for an artist’s work to evolve, to respond to the feedback given, over several rounds with Joanne and Astrid, and visits by Helen and Jennifer. 

Similarly to Joanne, artists Helen O’Leary and Jennifer Rochlin, who will join us to share their practice and give feedback on the artists’ work, began as painters and eventually expanded their language through three-dimensional work.  Helen is known for her wood assemblage sculptures and Jennifer for her innovative combination of painting and sculpture. 

The program will culminate in an exhibition based on selections presented to Joanne and Astrid.

Course Tuition: $4250.00
Scholarships and payment plans available

Joanne Greenbaum earned a BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Over the past twenty years, Joanne Greenbaum has exhibited widely at international venues including at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany; and MoMA PS1, New York, among many others. In 2008, a career-spanning survey of her work was mounted by Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland and travelled to the Museum Abteiberg in Monchengladbach, Germany. In 2018, the Tufts University Art Galleries at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston mounted “Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today,” a comprehensive solo exhibition that travelled to the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.
Greenbaum is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including The Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; Artist in Residence at The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant. Her work is included in the collections of the Brandeis Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; CCA Andratx, Majorca, Spain; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Haus Konstruktiv Museum, Zurich; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS and the Ross Art Collection at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Astrid Dick is a painter working and living in Paris. Dick has been a recipient of the Milton and Sally Michel Avery Visual Arts Fellowship at Yaddo and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, among others, and shown her work through solo and group shows in Europe, the US and Argentina, such as the Grand Palais in Paris and the Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland. Most recently, she had shows at Moments Artistiques in Paris, MDavid & Co. Gallery, ArtCake and Below Grand Gallery in New York, Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, and her work was reviewed in CULTURED, Hyperallergic and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Her art writing has appeared in ArtPress, the Brooklyn Rail and Two Coats of Paints, among others. She holds a PhD in Economics from MIT. She has taught undergraduate and graduate university courses at INSEAD in France, where she was tenure-track faculty, as well as New York University and Columbia University.

Helen O'Leary (born 1961) is an Irish-born artist based in the United States and Ireland, known for constructions that blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture and object and image. She uses bricolage and handicraft approaches to refashion older works, studio castoffs and diverse materials into abstract pieces that explore materials, language, remnants of the past, and the visual, cultural and emotional influences of origin. She has exhibited internationally, including shows at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) (Belfast), American Academy of Arts and Letters, SFMOMA,the Sanskriti Foundation (New Delhi), Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne), and Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris). Her work has been recognized by the American Academy in Rome and John S. Guggenheim, Pollock-Krasner and Joan Mitchell foundations,[numerous residencies, and reviews in The Times (UK), The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Irish Times, and Arts Magazine, among others.

Jennifer Rochlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1968 and lives in Los Angeles, California. She received a Master of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, participated in an exchange at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany in 1998, and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado,Boulder in 1991. Rochlin is the recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from the Belle Foundation (2015) and the Durfee Foundation ARC grant (2007). She has had solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth (2024) Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium(2022); Shrine Gallery, New York NY (2022); The Pit, Los Angeles CA (2020); Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2020);and Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France (2018) among others. Her work is in the collections of the San FranciscoMuseum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA and The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Rochlin is represented by The Pit, Los Angeles, and Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels.