Expanses is Sopheap Pich’s sixth exhibition with Tyler Rollins Fine Art Gallery. Expanses features floor-standing sculptures showcasing both “lightness” and “monumentality.” Pich’s works explore the Cambodian identity and Pich’s childhood experiences growing up in Cambodia. Tyler Rollins, the owner of the gallery showcasing Expanses, is a Yale alumni who’s gallery focuses on contemporary art from the Indo-Pacific region, specifically Southeast Asia and Australia. …
John Ruskin and the Idea of the Museum
As the 2018 Paul Mellon Lecture, the Yale Center for British Art will host Tristram Hunt in a discussion about the fundamental idea of the museum. The event, free and open to the public and also live-streamed from the Center’s website, explores the value of museums and the role of museums as seen in John Ruskin’s writings. After the event, …
BOOKBURN
BOOKBURN will open on October 9th (the exhibition will begin showing on the 7th.) It features two Yale alumni: George Peck and Hugo Perez. As stated on the website, BOOKBURN is: “…a multimedia art installation that situates the viewer within a mass book burning. A collaboration between artist George Peck and filmmaker Hugo Perez, the installation found its genesis in …
BOOKBURN Opening
The world premier of BOOKBURN, a multimedia installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, that shows a mass quantity of books being burned, will take place on October 9th. This opening features a collaboration between two Yale alumni: George Peck and Hugo Perez.
Martin Puryear MFA’71 to Represent the US at the 2019 Venice Biennale
Martin Puryear MFA’71 will represent the US at the 2019 Venice Biennale. The acclaimed sculptor will construct a new site-specific work for the pavilion, opening next spring. The exhibition will also include outreach to under-served youth, overseen by New York’s Studio in a School and the Istituto Santa Maria Della Pietà in Venice, according to the New York Times. Puryear is the second African American …
Christina Quarles Presents
Christina Quarles MFA’16 presents MATRIX 271 at BAMPFA. This showcase features paintings of Quarles’ from over the past few years. Her works, as stated by BAMPFA, are “largely informed by her own subjective experience in the world… her work exhibits a prevailing sense of ambiguity, particularly in relation to race, gender, and human relationships.” Her colorful paintings, filled with pastels …
Unbecoming
This year’s Yale MFA graduating class for Photography is excited to announce their thesis show: Unbecoming. The August 11th showing is a special showcase for Yale alumni and their guests. The show will feature: Dannielle Bowman Jennifer Calivas Penn Chan Jillian Freyer Kathryn Harrison Lacey Lennon Luke Libera Moore Evelyn Pustka Dan Swindel
A Day’s Dust
Claudia Cortinez MFA’13 and Alva Mooses MFA’13 have been featured, with support from Studio 17, in the Tou Trykk gallery in Norway. As quoted from the gallery: “Claudia’s sculptural and photographic casts bring the eye to repeated perforations on concrete, building walls, the ground we stand on. The pressure of bodies and machines cast these patterns, making light what is embedded around us. …
Counterfeit Currency
The FLAG Art Foundation was pleased to announced their newest installation: Counterfeit Currency by Genevieve Gaignard MFA’14. The exhibition features the intersection of gender, race, beauty standards, and class in multiple staged settings. Her photos explore what female archetypes truly are and what their existence means for multiracial women like herself. The exhibition pushes the boundaries of identity and questions the meaning …
Made in LA 2018
Every two years, UCLA’s Hammer Museum hosts the Made in LA gallery, which showcases artists from around the LA area. Engaged in contemporary culture, the thirty-two artists showcased in this year’s display grapple a variety of engaging topics, from marginalization to capitalism. The gallery features multiple Yale School of Art alumni: Charles Long MFA’88, Nancy Lupo MFA’11, Aaron Fowler MFA’14, Lauren Halsey MFA’14, …