BOSTON UNIVERSITY MFA SHOW
Amory Park @ Morgan Lehman Gallery July 14 – 30, 2022 Opening reception: Thursday, July 14 from 6-8pm AJ Rombach, Baoying Huang, Benjamin Hawley, Chen Peng, David Petrak, Eva Lewis, Emily Manning-Mingle, Gavin Fahey, Jason Lipow, Madeline Norton, Marie Wheeler, Meghan Murray, Sunny Moxin Chen, Oscar Morel, Samantha Goodale, Veronica Dannis-Dobroczynski This remarkable group of students started their MFA journey in the Fall of 2020, optimistic that the confusion and uncertainty of a global pandemic would soon fade. Although these hopes proved false, these artists persevered in their studios and classes and continued to learn, expand, make, break, scream, cry, laugh, sigh, and wonder what it even means to make art in this moment. After the tumult and uncertainty of the past two years, they realize that they are re-entering a landscape that has fundamentally shifted. They have negotiated the tension between the immersive material demands of their individual projects and the increasingly relentless exigencies of the public sphere. In short, they have encountered a particularly acute version of the age-old challenge: to make work of one’s own that feels both true and urgent. Veracity and urgency are embedded in the materials they chose to handle, the images they chose to create, the subjects they chose to depict, and the structures they chose to build. What are the boundaries of identity? Are there new ways to depict the human body? How does one expand conventions and traditions? What does it mean to be radical? How does one structure freedom? How does one make the invisible visible? These students consider these, and other questions, through the discipline of painting, with its friction-filled histories and porous parameters. As their faculty, it has been an honor to be a part of their journey and privy to their individual stories. The works in this exhibition reflect where each of the artists are today, and to where they may be heading. The strength of their efforts suggests an overwhelming potential that fills me with hope. -Lucy Kim Associate Professor of Art Interim Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting 2021-22 Boston University School of Visual Arts 526 West 26th Street, Suite 410 New York, New York 10001 Gallery Hours: Tue.-Sat. 11am-6pm Poster design by Baoying Huang Pattern and Repetition @ Site: Brooklyn
An Online Exhibition Juried by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy December 23, 2021-January 23, 2022 *Extended to February 25! Pattern and Repetition features works by twenty-six artists employing various materials, including fiber, paper, clay, wood, mixed media, and video, that together quilt a rich picture of the versatility of patterning as an artistic strategy. Although most overtly used in clothing and home decor, patterns are everywhere, even nature. Inhabiting a spectrum, they can be minimal, complex, muted, bold, precise, organic, and range widely in scale. There are many well-known patterns, such as plaid and houndstooth. However, with only a few gestures made in sequence, a new pattern is born, intrinsically intertwining with repetition. It is a decorative technique that allows for maximum impact through a straightforward approach. Many patterns also hold cultural and historical significance worldwide, from Islamic sacred geometry to Scottish kilts and Acoma pottery. Repetition within a pattern establishes a flow that fosters balance and order, yet ironically, it can create a disorienting or maddening chaos if taken a step too far. This exhibition underscores the inherently repetitive nature of artistic labor, from cutting pieces of paper and puzzling them back together to craft a new image to building a structure by coiling clay or methodically applying droplets of glaze. Other examples include painstakingly embroidering a photograph, turning wood on a lathe, weaving a textile, and amassing found objects. Exhibiting Artists: John Allen, Anais Öst, Greg Bahr, Hannah Barnes, Karen Benton, Kristy Bishop, Nancy Brooks-Siebert, Keith Buswell Maryalice Carroll, Matthew Conradt, Scott DeWeese, Barbara Ellmann, Catalina Escallon Rosselli, Craig Hartenberger, Erin Juliana, Toby Kaufmann-Buhler, Minah Kim, Julie Kornblum, Lucy Li, Emily Manning-Mingle, Patricia Miranda, Natalie Obermaier, Alisha Potter, Eva Tellier, Flora Wilds, Celeste Wilson Images: Top Left: Flora Wilds, bikini quilt ; Top Right: Emily Manning-Mingle, and it was all okay; Bottom Left: Julie Kornblum, Plastic in the Oceans Bottom Right: Patricia Miranda, Enwrapped in arms enfolding; I Ink: New Prints @ Site Brookyn
January 31-February 29, 2020 165 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY Opening reception: Friday, January 31, 6-9pm While print making was invented in China in 105 AD, the mass production of paper in Europe during the 1400s proved to be major technological breakthrough, allowing printmakers to use carved wood and metal plates to produce multiple copies of the same image. Print-making was central to the revival of classical motifs during the Renaissance, as well as the circulation of technical drawings and popular images. Later, etching became the preferred medium of painters and experimental printmakers such as Rembrandt and Piranesi. After the Industrial Revolution, wood engraving, lithography, and a range of photomechanical methods proliferated, which, combined with the rigorous aesthetic of Japanese woodblock prints, had a decisive influence on both Impressionism and the avant garde movements of the next century. However, printmaking has undergone various rapid changes in the last three decades. The increasing pace of technological development has inaugurated new digital forms while at the same time allowing artists to view previous modes of production in a more contextual and historical manner. Works Ink: New Prints translate ideas, scenes, and images into the printed form, using subtle monochrome, complex arrays of color, and expressive lines. This exhibition examines a wide range of artistic practices related to the print medium, from the return of more traditional printmaking techniques, new technologies, and the combination of the two. Methods include woodcuts, engraving, etching, mezzotint, drypoint, lithography, screen-printing, digital prints and foil imaging. Installation shot by Site: Brooklyn A couple weeks ago I took a trip to NYC to visit family, friends and see a bunch of shows in NYC--much of the work by friends and fellow BU alumni. After my 7:30am bus arrived on the west side, I rode my bike over to CUE Art Foundation to see Natessa Amin's show Hyphen. Natessa, a fellow BU alum displayed a colorful and complex show of paintings, sculptures and drawings. I love the balance she achieves between large, bold areas of color and small, intricately painted details. Read more about her work here. After eating lunch with my college friend Kelly, I went to see these inflatable Paul Chan sculptures at Greene Naftali. My favorite sculptures were the ones that were holding hands. I liked the way the individual pieces became one and shifted as a group. The moving air created fleeting moments where the sculptures danced, pushed and embraced. Next, I rode my bike to Chelsea to see Jessica Campbell's narrative rug paintings at Field Projects and Mike Cloud's painted shapes at Thomas Urban Gallery. Just a few weeks before my visit I saw Mike Cloud speak at BU, so I was excited to see his work in person. My next stop was Jenna Gribbon's show When I Looked at You the Light Changed at Fredericks & Freiser. Although many of the show's highlights featured women wrestling naked in surreal environments (a kitchen, the docks, or in the middle of a road), I preferred several of her smaller, more intimate paintings of individual women wandering, performing mundane tasks or simply aglow in warm summer light. Next I went to Yossi Milo to see Doron Landberg's show. I met Doran at Anderson Ranch this summer and was fortunate to hear him talk about his work and influences. Seeing his paintings in person was even more special. Many of his canvases are massive and immerse you in his colorful world of family and friendship. I even happened to stop by the gallery when he was there and several of the figures in Daniel Reading were there. It was a surreal experience to see the real people move around the gallery as I soaked up these beautifully fluid and tender painting moments. I first learned about Sarah Sze's work in a Contemporary Art class I took for art educators with Lois Hetland in 2014. I immediately fell in love with her meticulous, hyper-focused process and her resulting sculptures. I have seen her work at the ICA in Boston and the Rose Museum in Waltham, so almost skipped going to her most recent NY show. I'M SO GLAD I DIDN'T. Her show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery covered the walls, and sometimes floors of ceilings of the two floor gallery. Filled with photographs, videos, paintings, sculptures, and installation, I felt as if I was both in her brain during the creation of each piece and outside of her process looking at fully realized works of art. The shift in time and place I experienced while looking at various pieces was amazing--like time travel. I was so impressed with her virtuosity with multiple ways of working and wish I could have stayed longer to soak it all in. My next stop was the Hercules Art/Studio Program, where I got to visit Leeanne Maxey (a fellow BU alum) and see a show of her most recent egg tempera paintings. Visit her website to see more of her work. My last stop of the day was at a tiny space called Kristen Lorello Gallery. So tiny, in fact that I almost couldn't find it. Once inside, I was surrounded by eight oil stick drawings by Ping Zheng. I loved the composition, color, mark-making and quality of light and air in each piece. After a full day of gallery hopping, I rode my bike across the Manhattan Bridge to visit my high school friend Caitlin. She is currently a second year grad student at Pratt, and I met up with a few of her classmates in Brooklyn before clunking out around 10pm. In the morning, Caitlin and I walked to her studio. Caitlin and I took painting together in high school, and she has been an inspiration to me ever since. Although she applied to school as a painter, her work has become more sculptural lately. She is currently working on a series of sculptural installations for her MFA thesis show. I hope to make it back to NY to see the final form of this work in the spring! I left Brooklyn around 11am and rode my bike back to Manhattan to see two more shows (luckily these galleries were open on Sunday!) before meeting up with my parents. The first show was Twice Over, work by recent MFA grad (and BU alum!) Rebecca Ness. Rebecca's painting were so full of life, texture and detail that her show of paintings felt more like a show of 50 paintings. I'm so glad I got to see this show before it came down! After seeing Rebecca's work, I walked around the corner to see one more show--John McAllister's silence sounding sumptuous at James Fuentes Gallery. I loved the bright, somewhat sour, somewhat sweet landscape portals that hung in the gallery. See more of his show here. At last I biked across town to meet up with my parents near the Whitney Museum for lunch. It was great to see them. I left the city feeling mentally and emotionally full.
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