KYUNG SOOK KOO / IAN HARVEY, ,2006/07
Graphite, enamel and shellac on paper
112 x 132 inches
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Office: KDM 198
Office hours: Posted on instructor’s office door. Please use appointment sheet on office door to schedule an appointment during office hours.
Phone:(916) 278-7516
Email: iharvey@csus.edu

Furlough Schedule:
September 11 and 18
October 9, 16 (campus closed 10/16)
November 18, 19, 23 and 24
December 21

Syllabi and course materials below.

Ian Harvey teaches Drawing and Painting.

CURRENT WORK
Since 2006 Ian Harvey and Koo Kyung Sook (Professor of Art, Chungnam National University, South Korea) have been working collaboratively on a series of large-scale works titled Figures. The Figures have been exhibited in New York, Seoul, Chicago and Sacramento.

This series of work addresses the intangible life of the body – that which we do not ordinarily see or feel. It evokes the fundamental elements of the body such as water, lymph, blood, and the organs that generate and circulate them. In order to present this invisible life the Figures are constructed from hundreds, sometimes thousands, of “painted” cards. Each card is the size of a standard business card: 2 x 3.5 inches. The use of the cards establishes references to individual identity as well as cellular structure, and allows the work to address the subject on both the micro and the macro levels. Each card is “painted” individually with combinations of materials including: shellac, enamel, polyurethane, synthetic gold and silver pigment, and graphite. The unpredictable reactions between the materials produce organic movements and forms. When joined edge to edge to create a figure, the organic idiosyncrasy of each card combines with the underlying pixilated grid to suggest dynamic, yet structured, movements of life.

BACKGROUND
Harvey addresses painting as a language of inquiry - a responsive and resilient vehicle with which to explore experience in the present. Painting engages the margins of experience where instability, suspension, ambiguity, and ambivalence necessarily characterize content. From 1997 to 2003 he focused on large-scale mixed media paintings on wood panels. The expansive surfaces of the paintings allowed him to engage the diverse languages of abstraction and representation in an open dialogue. For Harvey it’s not a question of making a choice between one language or another, rather it’s a question of discovering a syntax that welcomes and sustains a dynamic exchange between multiple languages. What fuels his painting and determines its content are the ways in which diverse pictorial vocabularies collide and merge to articulate the increasingly complex and contradictory voices of a pluralistic present.

Following graduation from Wesleyan University in Connecticut (BA 1977), Harvey attended Columbia University, School of the Arts (MFA 1980) in New York. After an invitation to teach at Wesleyan University as a Visiting Artist in 1980 he continued on at Wesleyan until 1989. In 1990 he returned to New York and became a director at Associated American Artists, a private gallery representing modern and contemporary artists from North and South America. While in New York he exhibited at 55 Mercer. In 1997 Harvey left New York to direct the Vermont Studio Center Press, a fundraising program supporting artist residency fellowships. He remained at the Studio Center until 2003 during which time his painting was supported by grants from the Artist Resource Trust (2001), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2002). In 2003 he traveled to South Korea where he lived for 18 months studying and working with traditional Korean painting methods.

Syllabi and Instructions - Fall 2009

Art 20B
Art 22
Art 122A