Luis Alonso
Cuban-born artist Luis Alonso creates drawings developed from a free play of line. He earned a BFA in illustration from RISD and an MFA in painting from Rutgers University. He has exhibited work at the Wheeler Gallery in Providence, the New York Law School in NYC, the Schaffler Gallery of the Pratt Institute, the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery at SUNY and Scott Alan Fine Arts in New York.
In addition to teaching at RISD, Alonso has been a visiting lecturer at SUNY College at Cortland and a visiting critic at Harvard’s Carpenter Center. He was awarded the Cintas Foundation Fellowship from the Institute of International Education and two Faculty Development Grants from RISD.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
FOUND 1001-10
STUDIO:DRAWING
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA
FOUND 1001-26
STUDIO:DRAWING
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA