Anthony Tasset
Professor
Studio Arts
Tasset@uic.edu

Spring 2013 Courses

AD 203 - Topics in Drawing Studio I  [4 hours ]
33419: LEC, TR 1:00-1:50pm, Art and Design Hall #5202
33418: LAB, TR 2:00-3:40pm, Art and Design Hall #5202

AD 304 - Advanced Topics in Drawing  [4 hours ]
33421: LEC, TR 1:00-1:50pm, Art and Design Hall #5202
33420: LAB, TR 2:00-3:40pm, Art and Design Hall #5202

AD 342 - Topics in Sculpture  [4 hours ]
24887: LEC, TR 9:00-9:50am, Art and Design Hall #4100
24886: LAB, TR 10:00-11:40am, Art and Design Hall #4100

AD 499 - Cooperative Education  [0 to 4 hours ]
18495: COP, by appointment

AD 500 - Art and Design Teaching Internship  [0 to 2 hours ]
29334: PR, by appointment

AD 531 - Advanced Studio Arts  [5 hours ]
18541: CNF, by appointment
18550: LAB, by appointment


Biography:

Tony Tasset is an artist who has worked in a variety of styles and mediums including sculpture, photography, video and film. In the last few years he has created several large-scale permanent outdoor sculptures. His work deals with universal themes and emotions through common pictorial languages. To this end he employs familiarity, humor, craft, sentiment, confession and shock. He makes iconic images about the current cultural moment from an individual perspective

Tasset received his MFA from The School of the Art institute of Chicago and his BFA from The Art Academy of Cincinnati. Tasset is currently a University Scholar at The University of Illinois at Chicago; was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; and received The Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.

Tasset�s most recent exhibitions include �All Things Must Pass� at The Laumeir Art Museum and Sculpture Park, St Louis MO; �Sympathy for the Devil, Art and Rock and Roll since 1967� at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL; and �Into Me/ Out of Me�, MACRO, Rome Italy. His work has been reviewed in The L Magazine and in Artforum.