Art Studio Alumni News & Exhibitions

Don’t miss your chance to view the work of Alum Bruce Nauman (MFA 1966) here on campus. Coinciding with the opening of his retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, “Bruce Nauman: Blue and Yellow Corridor” at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art features the first realization of a participatory environment Nauman conceived in 1970.

Hedwig Brouckaert (MFA 2005) is participating in the exhibition “Sun Worship and Solar Machines” curated by Kari Adelaide and Max Razdow at The Sphinx. An itinerant curatorial project developed by Adelaide and Razdow, The Sphinx exhibits in Boston, New York City and surrounding areas. “Sun Worship and Solar Machines” will display at Envoy Hotel, Fort Point Arts Community in Boston. The exhibition runs to October 6, 2018.

Alum Hong Chun Zhang (MFA 2004) has long focused on hair imagery in her art. The journal Elephant takes a closer look at Hong’s imagery and it’s social context in their June 25 issue Summertime Angst — Art in the Age of Uncertainty. The author Holly Black explores hair, angst and Hong’s immigrant experience in “Painting the Surreal Politics of Long Hair and Nails.”

Alum Anna Valdez (BA 2009) will be sharing exhibition space with Georgia O’Keeffe in the show “The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The exhibition, which runs from May 6 to September 3, 2018, looks at how the art of Georgia O’Keeffe has intrigued viewers and artists alike for generations. “The Beyond” brings together more than 30 of O’Keeffe’s paintings with the work of 20 emerging artists focusing on similar themes.

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