The Socrates Annual 2018

Antone Könst MFA’14 and Virginia Lee Montgomery MFA’16 are featured in the 2018 Socretes Annual, an annual event held in the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens. Könst’s featured work is Free Peddler, a “reimagination of the age-old trope of the transient salesperson.” Montgomery’s featured work is Sword in the Sphinx, “a resin-cast copy of a popular garden sculpture of Madame de Pompadour, …

Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities.

Shikeith MFA’18 is featured as one of many artists in the August Wilson Center/African American Cultural Center’s Familiar Boundaries. Infinite Possibilities. Shikeith’s contribution is a series of photos named The Language Must Not Sweat. The exhibition continues through March in Pittsburgh.

Trés Mall

Derek G. Larson MFA’07 presents his philosophically and politically motivated animated series Trés Mall in Savannah, GA. According to the creator, Très Mall is an animated series featuring writers on topics in philosophy, activism and the environment. The story follows three artists living in Savannah, where Jon inherits a strip mall and his friends join in to witness a slow progression …

In Practice: Other Objects

Nathalie Ball MFA’18 is featured in the multiple-artist exhibition In Practice: Other Objects, at the Sculpture Center in New York. According to the Sculpture Center, In Practice: Other Objects presents new work by eleven artists and artist teams that probes the slippages and interplay between objecthood and personhood. From personal belongings to material evidence, sites of memory, and revisionist fantasies, the …

Migdalor

Sheila Hicks MFA’59 premiers Migdalor, a vibrant and fluffy exhibition in Tel Aviv. The exhibition features plushy colorful sculptures, produced from both natural and artificial materials. Her works bring a sparkle to the viewers eye, the playful nature of the art truly shining through in the effervescent shapes she produces. Inspired by pre-Colombian textiles, Hicks looks to redefine space as something …

Make Me a Summary of the World

Rina Banerjee MFA’95 will be featured in the PAFA’s Historic Landmark Building for her exhibition Make Me a Summary of the World. This exhibition, comprised of “reflections upon the splintered experience of identity, tradition, and culture within diasporic communities,” is the first of Banerjee’s North American exhibitions. Her large-scale sculptures have typically been featured in Europe and South Asia, but this is …

Rona Pondick

Rona Pondick MFA’77 will be featured in New York at the Marc Straus Gallery through December. According to the gallery, “Pondick’s new works feature semi-transparent clear blocks encasing her head rendered in brilliant contrasting color. The heads appear in various orientations, sometimes even floating partway out of their evanescent domain. The blocks have subtle contours and worked edges, paying fealty …

I Can’t See You Without Me

I Can’t See You Without Me is Mickalene Thomas’ MFA’02 exhibition in the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. In the exhibit, you’ll find over 50 of Thomas’ works, from paintings to sculptures. Additionally, there will be the premier of Je t’aime trois, a collaborative effort with Terri Lyne Carrington, a Grammy-award-winning composer, comprised of a multichannel video display. Thomas’ works express …

The Catskill Glow

Jane Carr MFA’66 will be featured in the Word and Image Gallery in Treadwell, NY in November. Her landscapes, carefully crafted with egg tempera on panel, showcase the Catskills, where she is originally from. According to the gallery, “Carr uses the jewel-like quality of egg tempera color to catch the effects of light and atmosphere in the long hollows of …

William T. Williams Receives the 2018 Pratt Institute Legends Award

William T. Williams MFA’68 was nominated and won the 2018 Pratt Institute Legends Award. Williams graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1966 and soon continued his educational journey at Yale for the next two years. Williams, as an influential figurative painter, said he received inspiration from Richard Bove and that solidified his philosophical perspective as seen in his works: a …