kasarian dane
position:
Assistant Professor of Art
education:
MFA, painting and drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA, painting and drawing, University of Minnesota
courses taught:
Painting, all levels, intro through advanced
Color
Visual Culture
Intro to Studio Art
BIO:
Kasarian Dane received his BFA summa cum laude in painting from the University of Minnesota in 1995 and his MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998. He has shown his paintings nationally and internationally, including exhibits in Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, London, England, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. His 2006 solo exhibition at Rowland Contemporary in Chicago was reviewed by James Yood in Artforum. His paintings were also featured in a review of the Bridge Art Fair in Chicago on National Public Radio’s Hello Beautiful! in May 2007. Dane currently has work in TRANS: ABSTRACTION, a group exhibition in Munich, Germany that will also travel to Tokyo, Japan and Los Angeles, U.S. Dane lives and works in upstate New York where he teaches painting at St. Lawrence University.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
In teaching painting, I emphasize a contemporary approach with a stress on learning basic paint handling skills and fundamental concepts of color at the Introductory level and incorporating current concepts with individual approaches at Intermediate and Advanced levels.
At all levels, students are asked to consider both the historical implications and contemporary role of painting. What does it mean to make paintings in a contemporary context along side other art forms such as performance, installation, video, and digital-based works of art? How can these practices influence what happens in painting? How can these practices challenge painting? How can concepts be made manifest in various media and yet contain a consistency of thought and idea? How does a concept change when presented in the medium of paint? How can painting challenge other contemporary art-making practices?
Reading and research is emphasized in studio practice. Students are assigned readings from sources such as Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Times, etc.
SELECTED PRESS:
“[Dane’s] fidelity to the endless subtleties of tone, shape, and pattern is both earnest and accomplished, exuding a sense of a knotty problem brought to hard-won resolution. Nevertheless, the variables in play–color, texture, width, rhythm, and articulation–may be shuffled endlessly, and the allure of Dane’s project is that each subsequent instance will be as difficult to achieve and interesting to witness as the first.” –James Yood, Artforum, February 2007
“I just find [Dane’s paintings] to be a perfect solution to one of these hundred year old problems of how do you make hard-edge abstract stripe painting.”–James Yood, Chicago Public Radio, April 29, 2007
“Kasarian Dane’s deceptively simple paintings feature little more than bands of color, though their composition speaks volumes, recalling traditional nautical signals, or, perhaps, flags from some make-believe country.” –AM, Flavorpill Chicago, Issue #114
“These paintings of multicolored strips that run horizontally in some, and vertically in others, seem to float on the walls like bizarre flags of the future. … With their bold and brash color combinations, some of [Dane’s] works…are searing to the eye, while others evoke nostalgic associations by pairing colors that were popular in different decades (a 1980s mauve and a psychedelic 1960s lime-green, for instance)…. some would make for excellent flat-screen television decoys with their locked color bars.” –Josh Tyson, Time Out Chicago, Issue 96
Links to Kasarian Dane’s work:
http://www.rowlandcontemporary.com/artists.asp
KASARIAN DANE GALLERY
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- Untitled (Original Six) 2007
