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Is Crit Wits for you?

Are you a young artist looking for feedback on your artwork this summer?

Or perhaps an artist who has been out of school for sometime, and simply looking for some quick feedback/re-fresh ideas on how to push your work forward?

Post-Baccalaureates, MFA programs, and residencies can be expensive ways of generating new ideas in the studio; not to mention this pandemic makes it hard for all of us to move around.

Which is why, we bring to you… *drumroll*!!

Crit Wits (beta mode)!

This summer of 2020, you can work with any of our online teachers from our roster below. We are all Columbia MFA alums, who have recently gone through two-years of extensive graduate training on how to conduct studio critiques of all mediums (2D, 3D, and more), as well as formal training in teaching assistantships. Our expertise ranges from painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, performance, digital media, animation, to video. We promise to look at your work with thought and care.

Things we can help you with:

Feedback on your artwork

Applying to grad school, tips and advice e.g. feedback on your artist statement, cv, and website (unfortunately, we cannot write your artist statements for you)

Answering any other questions you have

Are you ready for your online crit?

Here’s How It Works:

Pick an online teacher from our roster below to sign up for a Zoom critique with them.

You will be asked to fill out a form, where you will submit your info, as well as up to 5 images of your artworks and a PDF image list.

Choose between scheduling a 30-minute OR 60-minute personalized one-on-one virtual critique.

Venmo the artist in advance @ their personal Venmo handles to secure your session. You are guaranteed an online critique within 2 weeks from payment date.

Your online teacher will be in touch with you to schedule a specific date and time to e-meet, and will provide you with a zoom link.

And you’re ready to go!!

We look forward to helping take your art to the next level this summer! Sincerely, Your Crit Wits (check us out below!)

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Our Online Teachers

STIPAN TADIC

Stipan Tadic studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Columbia University’s MFA Visual Arts program. He currently resides in New York City and works primarily in painting and producing comic books.

stipantadic32.blogspot.com Teaching Interests: oil painting, gouache, outsider art, comics, landscapes, portraits, European art history.

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MARK YANG

Mark Yang immigrated to Los Angeles with his family when he was nine years old. He earned his BFA from Art Center College of Design (2017) and MFA from Columbia University (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York (2020); CP Projects Space, New York (2019) and Ki Smith Gallery, New York (2019). Yang currently paints and works in Los Angeles.

markyangstudio.com Teaching Interests: oil painting, figure painting, landscapes, drawing, Picasso.

SUSAN M B CHEN

Susan M B Chen, a first-generation Asian American, paints portraits of her racial community to investigate the psychology of race, and the varying viewpoints her sitters have on ideas of home, immigration, prejudice, identity, family, longing, love and loss. She usually finds her sitters, who are strangers, on various community social media groups on the Internet. She received her BA from Brown University (2015) and MFA in Visual Arts, Painting from Columbia University (2020). In 2019, she was a finalist for the AXA Art Prize. She is temporarily painting in her New York City apartment until safer times allow for her to relocate to a professional art studio.

susanmbchen.com Teaching Interests: oil painting, landscapes, portraits, professional practices.

JAMES J.A. MERCER

James J.A. Mercer is a New York based artist working in painting, drawing and video. He received a bachelor’s degree in Printmaking from RISD and is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University. In 2014 he was a resident at Clocktower Productions and has exhibited at Pioneer Works and the Drawing Center. His animated videos were featured in the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation in 2018. On the occasion of the pandemic, James has temporarily relocated to working in suburban Massachusetts.

jamesmercer.net

Teaching Interests: painting, animation, video, performance, grids.

CARA LYNCH

Cara Lynch studied at Columbia University (MFA 2020) and Adelphi University (BFA 2012). She works in sculpture, installation and print. Recent exhibitions include shows at UrbanGlass, Morris Jumel Mansion Museum and IPCNY. In addition to her studio work, Lynch has created large scale public projects, including a permanent installation for the NYC MTA. She currently works from her kitchen table at the time of this pandemic.

caralynchstudio.com

Teaching Interests: print, sculpture, installation.

FONTAINE CAPEL

Fontaine Capel (born 1990, New York) studied at Columbia University (2020). She has used performance, video, monumental drawing, sculpture, installation and speculative proposals to consider our present roles and to imagine our possible futures. Capel has performed and exhibited works at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2015), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (2017) and the Jewish Museum (2019); has attended residencies at Residencia Corazón Argentina, ACRE and the Chicago Artist Coalition; and has been awarded fellowships at Socrates Sculpture Park and the Tu Cuba foundation. Fontaine currently works in New York City.

fontainecapel.com

Teaching Interests: performance, video, monumental drawing, sculpture, installation, speculative proposals, community projects.

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