R. H. Quaytman, Graduate Seminar

R. H. Quaytman is a New York-based artist and a co-founder of Orchard, the influential cooperatively-run exhibition and event space that concluded its three-year run on the Lower East Side in 2008. Though Quaytman refers to her work as painting, her practice incorporates photography, digital technologies, and printmaking techniques, and depends on extensive research precipitated by the historical, architectural, or social aspects of specific sites. Quaytman presents each successive body of work as a “chapter,” employing the term “book” to suggest her project’s overarching structure.
A member the faculty of Bard College in Annendale-on-Hudson, New York since 2006, Quaytman has also lectured at Princeton University, Cooper Union, Columbia University, and the Yale University School of Art. The subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the Renaissance Society (Chicago, 2013), the Kunsthalle Basel (2011), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010), her work was featured in both the 54th Venice Biennale and the 2010 Whitney Biennial. A recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in 2001, Quaytmen is represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne.

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Is this the same Jack Bankowsky who wrote a piece in this summer's Art Forum? “One can well understand the drive to move paint around, and even appreciate that the mere act of doing so might, in its bodily immediacy, count as a self-affirming activity in our virtual present. […] How are we to understand the ‘expressive’ brushstroke when our daily transactions are mediated through a touch of the screen?”