Last week, New Haven Museum’s newest exhibition, “Shining Light on Truth: New Haven, Yale, and Slavery” opened to the public. You may visit for free until September 1, 2024. The exhibition, designed by David Jon Walker MFA ’23, celebrates Black resistance and community. Curators Michael J. Morand with Charles E. Warner, Jr excavated from the archive of New Haven and …
Ana Benaroya MFA ’19 Featured on Art Basel
Art Basel’s Chloë Ashby recently featured the work of Ana Benaroya MFA ’19 in a piece titled, “Transcending gender with muscles and manicures.” In it, Ashby highlights Benaroya’s aesthetic trajectory from Renaissance art to depicting women that embodied both hyper-masculine and hyper-feminine traits. You can find the full feature here. Photo Credit: Ana Benaroya. The Devil May Care, 2023. Courtesy …
Awol Erizku MFA ’14 featured in Blind Magazine
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 …
Tschabalala Self MFA ’15 Artwork Featured on the Cover of Vogue
Tschabalala Self MFA ’15 recently painted an image of Nicki Minaj for the December 2023 digital cover of Vogue. On the collaboration, Vogue writes, “when we asked Tschabalala to do a portrait of Nicki for Vogue’s December digital cover—using photographer Norman Jean Roy’s cover shoot [of the print edition] as a starting point—she was surprised and electrified by the idea, and maybe just …
Jordan Casteel MFA ’14 on Time 100 2022 List
Jordan Casteel MFA ’14 was featured on Time‘s top 100 people list of 2022. Read what Time writes about Casteel: “Jordan Casteel’s portraits invite us to meet their gaze. The artist is best known for detailed oil paintings that find subjects in her New York City community—usually African Americans, always people of color—staring out at the viewer, their expressions confident but …
YAA Small Talk with Antonio Alcalá ’83 ’85 MFA
First-generation American Antonio Alcalá ’83 ’85 MFA spoke to the Yale community on June 17 about his journey from San Diego to New Haven to Washington, D.C., where he has art directed or designed more than 60 postage stamps for the United States Postal Service. From commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation to the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, …
Maya Lin BA ’81, M.Arch ’86 Commissioned to Create Sculpture for Obama Presidential Center
Recently, Former President Barack Obama announced that the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Water Garden will be anchored around a commissioned art installation from Maya Lin BA ’81, M.Arch ’86. According to the Pace Gallery, “Lin’s work, titled Seeing Through the Universe, will feature an upright “oculus” piece that mists and a flat “pebble” piece that fills with water and then …