Awol Erizku MFA ’14 was recently featured in Blind Magazine celebrating what Miss Rosen calls a “groundbreaking…monograph” whose “sparkling phantasmagoria…brings to mind the riddle of a Sphinx.” You can find the work, Mystic Parallax, here. You can read the full news feature here. Photo Credit: Awol Erizku. Girl with a Bamboo Earring, 2009. from Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax (Aperture, 2023). …
Yale 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibitions, January 20-May 21, 2024
The Yale School of Art annually hosts an MFA thesis exhibition that showcases the culmination of two years of intensive work from all its 2024 MFA candidates, from painting /printmaking to graphic design, from sculpture to photography. You can see the work of the newest soon-to-be Yale alumni artists at the dates below. All thesis exhibitions and receptions are held …
Dominic Chambers MFA ’19 Exhibition at CAM through Feb. 11 2024
Recently, Dominic Chambers MFA ’19 was interviewed by Angelo Vidal with Riverfront Times about his solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) St. Louis, and the opportunity that the exhibition posed for his family to see Chambers’ work in person. The exhibition, titled “Birthplace,” Birthplace, is on display through Sunday, February 11, 2024. Vidal describes the exhibit as “an …
Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02 / “Portrait of an Unlikely Space” at YUAG until Jan. 7, 2023
Until January 7, 2023, head to the Yale University Art Gallery to see contemporary paintings by Mickalene Thomas MFA ’02 curated alongside historical objects. On the exhibition, ArtNews writes, “Small 19th-century portraits (painted miniatures, daguerreotypes, tintypes, silhouettes, and prints) featuring Black sitters—some known, some unknown, some free(d), some enslaved—make up an imagined community, in Thomas’s words a “chosen family,” in …