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, …
Marcela Florido MFA’15 Featured in Interview
Marcela Florido MFA’15 was featured in an interview by The Global Research Center. The interview was conducted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire. According to Florido herself, “[During the interview,] We talked about issues of identity and intercultural dynamics in art and how the influence of racially polarized societies such as Brazil and the U.S can impose on the ability …
PRECOG Magazine Issue 3 Launches
PRECOG Magazine, an annual publication that explores the intersection of art and technology/science, launches its third issue on May 25th at 6-8 PM at Printed Matter in NYC. This edition will feature multiple Yale alumni: Blinn & Lambert (pseudonym of Nicholas Steindorf MFA’14 and Kyle Williams MFA’15) and Julia Bland MFA’12. For more information and to purchase the publication visit PRECOG …
Eva O’Leary MFA’16 Wins the Hyères Festival Photographie Grand Prix
Eva O’Leary MFA’16 was announced to be the winner of the 2018 Hyères Festival Photographie Grand Prix this April. From New York, O’Leary’s winning work was named Spitting Image, and depicted young American girls, aged 11 to 14, and their discomfort looking into the lens while looking at a mirror. Her work was comprised of both video and photos and analyzed how …
Kehinde Wiley MFA’01 to Speak at SFAI Commencement
Kehinde Wiley MFA’01 is set to speak at the San Francisco Art Institute’s 2018 Commencement ceremony. SFAI’s President, Gordon Knox, said, in regards to Wiley being chosen as the speaker: ““Kehinde Wiley’s work reflects the core values of a San Francisco Art Institute education—exquisite technique delivering a complex human story. His paintings re-shape how we see and understand power and …
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 …