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2 days ago

Visit our Graduate Gallery and support Michaela Moravcikova’s current exhibition, “Body lotion.” Michaela is an exchange student from Slovakia currently enrolled in our 2D studies program and is achieving her Masters in Painting. The exhibition containing acrylic paintings, monotypes, and silkscreens will end December 12, so be sure to check it out soon! You can contact michaela.moravcikova2@gmail.com to request a viewing.
“I try to connect the body with the icons. Abstraction created through layers, shapes, patterns, icons, lines, background, foreground, and transparency is shaken and then led by the haiku of my memory, experiences, emotions and associations. I’m interested in taming rationality, intuition, imagination, association, suggestions, trust and savageness. I try to juggle with elements of daily life with ease, to perform the best gig. Why wouldn’t I, if everything is permitted. We all want to have fun.” @michaelamoravcikova ... See MoreSee Less

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7 days ago

Meet one of our many amazing alumni, Jenny Day!✨
Jenny earned her MFA in painting at the UArizona School of Art and is currently a painter and sculptor based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She has exhibited her work in Arte Laguna in Venice, Italy, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, Museum of Art Fort Collins, Mesa Arts Museum, and the Phoenix Art Museum, to name a few! She also has a solo show currently on display at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center and a collaborative exhibition with Beth Davila Waldman at Chung | Namont in San Francisco, California.
We are so proud of Jenny for all of her incredible accomplishments and wish her success in her future endeavors!
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“Retreating from the stress and chaos of the last year, I created another landscape; populated by an army of friendly creatures. Here the burdens of coronavirus, climate change, and political division are dismissed by hot pink kittens that arc gracefully through meteor showers and owls that bury into beds of daffodils. In this place worry is edged out by the fantastic and mystical snails trail neon candy canes through the scorched earth. The apocalyptic is supplanted by the surreal and the allegorical.
Anxiety followed me. The escapist reflects and distorts its shadow world, the real, a funhouse mirror that names the traumas as it blows past them, slyly referential. The work suggests that magic is possible; while anchoring itself in the grotesque, inedible foods, a conglomeration of garbage. A blissful, almost psychedelic, reverence for nature exists, but the fantasy’s origins leach through in the details and distortions. The animals are often translucent, reflective. Nature persists, proliferates, and transforms. Relentless flowers push up against the edges of paintings, attempting to smother and subsume, animals and people oblivious to any threat; the threat always present.” - @jenny.marie.day ... See MoreSee Less

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1 week ago

Check out these impressive collages from School of Art Alumnus, Spencer Nichols! Spencer has received his BFA in Studio Art and is currently an MFA candidate at Pratt Institute. These images are from a series titled, “Work in Progress 1.”
“I created this work as a response to emotions caused by a breakup. It reflects my thoughts, feelings, desires, and pains I experienced and almost appear to be begging for some sort of release. Originally thinking about this work, I wanted it to be a comparison between the feelings of being lost as a child and an adult; as a child I often felt lost, as I did during the time I began the work. When I thought about the material I wanted to collage with, 1970/80’s gay pornographic magazines, it reminded me of the connection between media consumption and sexual habits in gay culture, as well as the connection present in personal and private exploitations. I felt trapped, hostage to heartbreak and old habits. I also became reminded of the link between materials created during a viral epidemic and work being made in a new global pandemic. The ransom note style text is my attempt at asking myself what the price is for letting go and being free. How can I be the prisoner and the security guard, and what is the ransom to release myself from the cage? This work explores those questions through vulnerability within myself in an attempt to find the answer.” - @srnichols7 ... See MoreSee Less