Multi-Level Painting: Form, Process, & Meaning

with Magalie Guérin | PAINTING 605 001 | 3 credits
Monday-Saturday, January 8 - 23, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m. EST

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.

Magalie Guérin’s (she/her) work is shape-based and abstract in nature although it employs strategies of representation (figure/ground relationship), which brings these invented shapes into an unknown yet seemingly familiar frame of reference. The experience of foreignness and discovery is at the core of Guérin’s practice. Guérin holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo shows at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, Corbett vs Dempsey, Amanda Wilkinson, Chapter NY, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Schwarz Contemporary, and Anat Egbi. She is the author of NOTES ON, a compilation of studio writings (The Green Lantern Press, 2016/2019). Awards include Pace at FAWC, Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, and Chinati Foundation residency. She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal/Toronto.

Magalie Guérin, Untitled, 2025, Oil on canvas on panel, 20 x 16 inches