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.

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, …

Do Ho Suh @ Victoria Miro

Do Ho Suh MFA’97 will be featured in an exhibition at the Galleria Victoria Miro in Venice. His works on display are part of his ongoing Rubbing/Loving project, which takes objects lined with paper, interconnects them, and rubs them with oil pastels. According to the gallery, the works “exist at the boundary of drawing and sculpture,” as his whimsical, “rational yet …

These Days

These Days is the Yale Senior Thesis show held at the Yale School of Art. It will feature the works of the following seniors: Bobby Berry, Rosa Chung, Kendra Farrell, Chad Hilliard, Elinor Hills, Annie Jones, Caroline Kim, Danielle Lotridge, Tevin Mickens, Aaron Peirano Garrison, Gabrielle Scarpa, Sarah Skin, Caroline Tisdale, and Athena Wheaton. The show will feature a reception …

Mamiko Otsubo on Rita McBride

Mamiko Otsubo MFA’04 will be featured in Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists Lecture Series. For her lecture, she will be discussing the work of Rita McBride a Düsseldorf, Germany based artist and sculptor, whose work Particulates, a laser-based art piece, is featured in Dia:Beacon. Otsubo is a prominent Japanese artist who graduated from Yale School of Art in 2004. She is …

Yale School of Art Publication Launch

As a part of the Open Studios, the School of Art will be hosting a reception for the launch of their new publication featuring the works of 2017 MFA students. The launch will have drinks and will offer a complimentary copy of the publication.