Candice C. Chu
Visiting Assistant Professor in Art

Area of Expertise: Drawing

Candice C. Chu is an artist based in New York. She received her B.A. in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from NYU. She has taught at Pratt Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, New York University, and guest lectured at Pepperdine University. Candice has shown work in New York and Los Angeles, participated in residencies at AZWest, NES, the Vermont Studio Center, published writing in the Brooklyn Rail, and was a 2020 recipient of a MoMA/CUNY Arts Fellowship.

Her work pursues ideas related to affect, beauty, and sentiment within an art-making process. She takes inspiration from the material and immaterial: from natural landscape, mosaic floors, flowers, and vessels to artist diaries and biography, as well as the experience of time and imperfection of memory.

Working from a constellation of literature, philosophy, artists, and writers, she uses the flexibility and elasticity of drawing to engage with personal and universal experiences, smaller and larger instances of beauty.

Candice is looking to expand the parameters of her artistic practice: to move the above concepts alongside language, image, and material - to narrow the gap between our inner life and day to day experience - to make a better artwork - and to ask the viewer to consider and observe.

Office: Saisselin 
518-580-8031
Email: candicechu@skidmore.edu 

BA, Brown University
MFA, NYU

Candice's personal website

 

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