Ricardo Quiñónez Alemán

I am an artist who likes to create a humanistic and positive impact on places and people where I am. I have an endless passion for creating art and a great love for teaching, training, and mentoring young artists who want to succeed in the arts and humanities. My great curiosity to discover new challenges has generated a large space with unlimited possibilities. My goal is to create artistic spaces as a creative initiative and seek new trends in art as a revolutionary way of thinking, intellect, and reasoning. I have taught foundations as Adjunct Faculty atthe  Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, Owens Community College. I was the President of OLA (Organization of Latino Artists) in Toledo, Ohio. I have worked as full time Faculty Instructor and Drawing department Head at School of Arts in, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, and as a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University. I completed an MFA degree in Studio Arts at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 2007. I completed a BFA degree in Studio Arts at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 2002. I have participated in multiple group and solo shows, exhibiting nationally inthe  U.S.A. and internationally in México, Chile, Hungary, Turkey, France, China, Argentina, and India. I have participated as a visiting artist in residency programs in Hungary, México, and the U.S.A. My artwork is in both permanent and private collections nationwide and worldwide in art institutions, museums, and galleries. I have participated in panels, symposiums, conferences, and written papers on art related to psychology, human condition, immigration, symbolism,m and psychoanalysis. I have received awards, grants, scholarships, and fellowships for professional,l artistic, and scholarly research. I am interested in psychoanalytic theories, art theory, contemporary art issues, iconography, symbolism,m and community art-based projects research.

Teaching Experience (Addendum # 2)

8/2019 - Present            Assistant Professor of Studio Art, full-time load, Claflin University, School of 

Humanities & Social Sciences, Department of Art, Orangeburg, SC

Courses taught:

ARTS 454 Printmaking I - (Independent Study)

ARTS 454 Research Methods - (Independent Study)

ARTS 306 Printmaking II 

ARTS 305 Printmaking I

ARTS 252 Sculpture II

ARTS 251 Sculpture I

ARTS 232 Painting II

                                             ARTS 231 Painting I

                                             ARTS 202 Drawing and Composition II

                                             ARTS 201 Drawing and Composition I

                                             ARTS 200 Art Appreciation

                                             ARTS 102 Design Concepts II

                                             ARTS 101 Design Concepts I 

1/2016 – 12/2016          Visiting Assistant Professor of Art-Painting and Area Head, full-time load, Temporary, Truman State University, Art Department, Kirksville, MO

Courses taught:

ART  499   Capstone BFA Experience Painting

ART 426 Capstone BA Experience Painting

ART 430 Painting V

                                             ART 418 Painting IV

                                             ART 330 Painting III                                                                         

                                             ART 318 Painting II

                                             ART 218 Painting I

ART 202 Art Studio Foundations II – (Life drawing)

1/2012 – 12/2012          Instructor in Foundations part-time at Owens Community College, Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Perrysburg, OH

                                    Courses taught:

ART 106 Fundamentals in Drawing

8/2008 - 5/2011             Instructor of Art in 2D/Drawing, 3/4-year course load, full-time Faculty and ad hoc member of the Graduate Faculty in the Art graduate program, Drawing Area Head Instructor for fall 2008, Bowling Green State University, School of Arts, Bowling Green, OH

Courses taught:

ARTS 6120 Graduate advanced study in drawing

ARTS 5110 Graduate drawing

ARTS 4240 Advance painting & drawing (Hybrid class)

ARTS 4180 Senior studio drawing

ARTS 4140 Advance drawing

ARTS 3240 Contemporary concepts in painting

ARTS 3130 Contemporary concepts in drawing

ARTS 3130 Narrative and sequence drawing

ARTS 2110 Drawing the figure 

ARTS 1030 Foundations drawing

8/2007 - 5/2008             Visiting Lecturer in 2D, 4/4-year course load, full-time Faculty, Purdue University, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, West Lafayette, IN

Courses taught:

A&D 113 Foundations drawing 

A&D 105 Design I (Lab Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop)

8/2003 - 5/2007             Instructor of Record in 2D, 2/2 course load, solely responsible for teaching and grading students’ artwork in foundation drawing, Purdue University, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, West Lafayette, IN

                                    Courses taught:

A&D 113 Foundations drawing 

Education (Addendum # 1)

2007                                    MFA in Studio Arts - Painting/ Printmaking/ Drawing

                                             Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Solo Show Thesis Exhibition / Written Thesis, 80pgs (unpublished)

(Des)Re-(pair)-ing the (frag-men-tation) Psychoanalysis Research Thesis, Melanie Klein, Object Relations Theory in Relationship to Art Making and Art Decoding. Thesis Committee: Professors; Charles Gick, Kathryn J. Reeves, and Roberta Kraft, Thesis advisor Michael Hill

1.                                    BFA in Studio Arts – Painting/ Printmaking/ Sculpture

Texas A&M University-CC, Corpus Christi, TX

Solo Show Thesis Exhibition, Deep Inside Shadows, Written Thesis 20pgs (unpublished)

The Analogy of the Human Figure in Psychological Spaces