Painting
Tyler is Ranked among the top 10 M.F.A.
programs in Painting by U.S. News and World
Report. Our Program provides the skills and concepts essential
to your artistic growth. The faculty has
designed a pattern of studio and seminar
courses that fosters the development of
pictorial concepts realized in the tangible
form of painting and drawing.
For more information on the rankings, click here.
Painting
Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Program Requirements
Click the links below for detailed program requirements.
BFA Painting/Drawing
MFA Painting/Drawing
News
Congratulations! Louise Fishman, BFA, 1963 Painting, is featured in Art in America and exhibitions at Cheim & Read gallery, NYC and the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.
Read an earlier article about her time at Tyler and artistic influences.
Portrait of Lisa Yuskavage. Photo by Jason Schmidt. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
Described by some as a deliberately provocative artist, Yuskavage’s work is well known for imagery based on the sexualized female figure; a style that is at once erotic, cartoonish, vulgar and angelic. Her early work was, as Yuskavage describes, “so demure, so tasteful, so full of shame and very conservative.” She eventually rejected it, and gave up painting for a year. When she came back, her work took on a completely new dimension, pushing the sexual envelope. No longer did her paintings make people feel comfortable, and this delighted her. She has been exhibiting extensively ever since, including solo exhibitions at The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin Ireland; the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, among others. Last year her solo exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in New York City was overwhelming acclaimed making many “Best of 2012” lists and receiving positive reviews in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker.
Rob Blackson, Director of Tyler’s Exhibition and Public Programs Department, recently talked with Lisa about the ways her work has developed over the years and asked her about the challenges she is currently facing in the studio. Lisa explained, “My challenge in the studio is that I lose my momentum and feel like I am starting from scratch. It’s like this after every exhibition. The work moving from the private for over a year and into the public (my head gets full of voices, thoughts and comments of others—both positive and negative) I lose the thread and I completely forget how to paint and have to relearn it again, as if I had a stroke not a show. I need to recover the private and forget the voices. It occurs to me lately that though a painful uphill battle, allowing for uncertainty and not having a formula down pat is good and allows for growth.” In such a private place, Blackson asked, what advice have you held onto throughout the years? “My dad told me when I was around 12—‘Always consider the source be it advice or criticism.’ I have gotten so many pieces of advice but to examine the place it comes from is always very important.”
Yuskavage’s work is currently on view in the group exhibitions “American Exuberance” at Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and “Haunting Narratives: Detours from Philadelphia Realism, 1935 to the Present” at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.
2012 US News Rankings
Tyler's Graduate Program in Painting/Drawing ranked 10th in US News and World Reports Best Graduate Schools 2012.
Professor of Painting, Keith Morrison, has curated a fantastic exhibit at the University of Delaware, titled, "Magical Visions: Ten Contemporary African-American Artist" which includes two of Tyler's own faculty, Karyn Olivier and Odili Odita.
Along with this, the exhibit has received wonderful press here. and, will be featured on WHYY! More details to come but the basic information is here:
"Magical Vision" airs on WHYY TV Philadelphia, Friday evening, March 30
Check your local listings!
Former MFA in Painting Exhitibitions
Liz Markus has a solo exhitibion "The Look of Love" at Zieher Smith Gallery in New York until March the 18th, 2012. For more info, click here.
Iva Gueorguievahas has an exhibit of recent work at Ameringer McEnery and Yohe in New York untll March the 10th, 2012. For more on the exhibit, click here.
Natasha Bowdoin, MFA Painting 2007, currently has a solo exhibit at Monya Rowe Gakkery in New York. For more information click here.
Dan Schein, MFA Painting 2011, has a solo exhibit opening at Galleri Tom Christofferesen in Denmark. For more information click here.
MFA Painting Alumni Named Executive Director
Former MFA in Painting, John Hatfield has been named the new Executive Director of the Socrates Sculpture Park in New York. Click here to read the article in Art Daily.
Please consider donating to this wonderful project started by our graduate students at Tyler! This project is the first of its kind at Tyler and is 100% initiated by the students- wonderful rewards are available at all levels for different monetary donations.
To make a donation, visit the page on Kickstarter here or copy and paste this link into your browser http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tylermfa/tyler-school-of-art-collaborative-graduate-catalog
Painting and Drawing Alumni featured in full article in the Fall 2011 Temple Alumni Review! Since 2000, over 200 museum exhibitions have featured our alumns! Hard copies will be mailed out soon but the article is online too, here at the Temple Review.
Tyler MFA Alum(1997) Liz Markusin her New York Studio.
CURRENT MFA Painter, Daniel Roman, reviewed as "Bernardo Da Bicci" in Frieze Magazine!
Current MFA Painting Grad, Erica Prince, Featured in MFA Bienniel, "Masters of the Visual Universe" at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art.
Woot!
Graduate Exhibition at The Ice Box
PAINTING IS (NOT) THE ISSUE—A STöOP Event
An Open Forum about Practices, Possibilities, and Problems in Contemporary Art
Tuesday, September 21, 6 PM
Painting Studios, 3rd Floor, Tyler School of Art
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SCULPTURE AS PUBLIC PRACTICE—A STöOP Event
An Open Forum about Art, Site, and Agency. With Special Guest John Hawke
Wednesday, February 2, 6:15 PM
Painting Studios, 3rd Floor, Tyler School of Art
3 Tyler MFA Students Featured in the New American Paintings Annual
Three 1st Year Tyler MFA Painting Students are now featured in the 2010 MFA Annual from New American Paintings. They are: Stuart Lorimer, Craig Rempfer and Dan Schein.
www.newamericanpaintings.com
First published in 1993, New American Paintings is bimonthly juried exhibition in print. Each regionally-focused edition features the work of forty painters. Working with curators from the nation’s top museums, we review the work of more than five thousand artists a year and publish the best we find.
Special Projects Grad Seminar, April 2010
Medium Resistance Exhibition, curated by Philip Glahn, Nick Kripal, and Richard Hricko, Opening Crane Arts March 5, 2010
New Program; Summer Painting Intensive
MFA Grads 2009 Part 1
Emerging Artists: Nineteen to Watch in
2009
Modern Painters, December 2008/January
2009
Cult of Color: Call to Color: Trenton Doyle Hancock
Professor Odili Donald Odita at the ICA:
Third Space
September 5, 2008 - March 29, 2009
The colors I use are personal: they reflect
the collection of visions from my travels
locally and globally. This is also one of
the hardest aspects of my work as I try to
derive the colors intuitively, hand-mixing
and coordinating them along the way.
In my
process, I cannot make a color twice - it
can only appear to be the same. This aspect
is important to me as it highlights the
specificity of differences that exist in the
world of people and things. What is most
interesting to me is a fusion of cultures
where things that seem faraway and disparate
have the ability to function within an
almost seamless flow. No matter the
discord, I believe through art there is a
way to weave the different parts into an
existent whole, where metaphorically, the
notion of a common humanity can be
understood as real."
-Odili Donald Odita
MFA
Painting exchange exhibition with
Mass Art:
Trenton Doyle Hancock MFA painting,
Tyler 2000- Lecture
Thursday, November, 15, 11:00am
Presidents Hall Auditorium
" The Fluid Field :
Abstraction and Reference "
A painting show organized by Dona Nelson,
assisted by Rachel Dobkin
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Delusional Birthday Dinner Party for Big
Daddy"
7x11' 2007, o/c, by Angela Dufresne.
Courtesy Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC
Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art,
October 3 - 21, 2007
Monday through Friday,10AM to 6PM
Saturdays and Sundays 12Pm to 6PM
participants include: Rosanna Bruno,
Natasha Bowdoin, Angela Dufresne, Anoka
Faruqee, Louise Fishman,Deborah Grant, Iva
Gueorguieva, Liz Markus, Tanaya Neal and
Rebecca Saylor Sack
Natasha Bowdoin, MFA painter and Asuka Goto
MFA sculptor have been awarded the Joan
Mitchell Foundation Grant.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation "MFA Grant
Program" was begun in 1997. This program is
conducted annually, with the selection of
ten recipients who are to receive a Masters
in Fine Arts degree from a recognized
graduate art facility in painting or
sculpture. Each recipient is awarded a Grant
of $10,000 in
recognition of artistic merit. The purpose
of this award is to assist in furthering the
recipient's artistic career and their
transition from academic to professional
studio work.
Work by Natasha Bowdoin:
Work by Asuka Goto:
