Women and Abstraction (PAI-0176)

Spring 2027 · PAI 0176 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

Processes and subjectivities in relationship to abstraction and gender in contemporary painting and sculpture. Weekly readings, class discussions, research, one on ones, group critique, writing presentations, museum, and gallery visits. Women discussed may include Torkwase Dyson, Brenda Goodman, Michelle Wallace, Christina Sharpe, The Ninth Street Women, Howardena Pindell, Carrie Moyer, Sarah Sze, Cecily Brown, Mika Rottenberg and others. Themes of absence, the void, blackness, power, violence, love, and light. Prerequisites:Junior standing, and PAI 3, PAI 5, or PAI 10, or instructor permission. Non-SMFA students and MAT Art Education students will receive a letter grade.

Course codes: PAI-0176, PAI 0176, PAI0176, PAI-176, PAI 176, PAI176

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