Thursdays from 6:00-9:00pm ET on Zoom
January 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2027
Fee: $500
Space limited to 8
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The popular online workshop returns with four new topics that stretch and pull at the existential edges of our shared humanity. As with its predecessors, Creating Beyond Convention Part III will examine a wide range of artistic approaches drawn from fine art, filmmaking, literature, and dance. The lectures and weekly assignments are designed to provide participants with concrete examples and practical strategies for advancing both the concepts and methods of their individual artistic practices. And, YES, the Trickster will make an appearance!
Course Structure:
Week 1. Confessions
James Pennebacker, Charles Bukowski, Tracy Emmin, Janessa Clark
Week 2. Death
Ingmar Bergman, Teresa Margolles, William Faulkner, Butoh Dance
Week 3. Transcendence
Kasmir Malevich, Alex Grey, James Turell, Light and Space
Week 4. Post Humanism
Pierre Huyghe, Jordan Wolfson, David Altjmed, Michel Houellebecq
Alex Yudzon is a New York-based visual artist whose work blurs the line between photography, painting, sculpture and performance. Creating autonomous photographs from site specific installations and studio- based still lifes, Yudzon’s work draws attention to the way we construct personal space within the context of the modern world. Yudzon’s work has been exhibited widely, including Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, China International Photography Biennial and Les Recontres d’Arles Festival. Yudzon was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in the Fall 2017. In 2018, he had a solo show with Slag Gallery in Brooklyn and a two-person show at Rick Wester Fine Art in New York. In 2019, Yudzon was awarded a NYFA grant for photography, and his work was included in Contemporary Performance, a museum-wide exhibition at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. In 2025, he was an artist in residence at the Ace Hotel in Brooklyn, New York where his related exhibition was on view in The Gallery from June-August 2025. Yudzon’s first monograph, A Room for the Night, was published by Radius Books in 2023 and received the prestigious American Institute for Graphic Arts award for book and cover design.
