January 7–22, 2027
11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. EST/10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CST
Untitled, 2026, oil on canvas, 45 x 36 inches
Multi-Level Painting: Form, Process, & Meaning
with Magalie Guérin
This course for beginning to advanced students will include extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems. Emphasis will be placed on active decision-making to explore formal and material options as part of the painting process in relation to form and meaning. Students will pursue various interests in subject matter. Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations, lectures and critiques will be included.
Pricing Information: Tuition & Fees
Registration Information: Monday, November 16, 2026
SAIC/For Credit Course Code: PAINTING 605 001 | 3 credits
About the faculty artist
Magalie Guérin (she/her; b. Montreal) is an artist based in Marfa, Texas. She works primarily in painting and ceramics and describes her work as shape-oriented, with the experience of foreignness and color relationships at its core. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011) and is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins in New York, and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal. She has exhibited internationally, and her work is in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, Speed Art Museum, DePaul Art Museum, Hydro-Québec, and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. She is the author of NOTES ON, a compilation of studio writings published by The Green Lantern Press in 2016 (second edition, 2019), and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the College of DuPage. Guérin is the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner grants (2024, 2018), a Pace Award at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (2019), and a Chinati Foundation residency (2018).