Art Studio Alumni News & Exhibitions

Overview

Alumni Exhibitions and News

Recent news items about Art Studio alumni, as well as their upcoming exhibitions. 

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Alum Torreya Cummings at Mills College

Alum Torreya Cummings (BA) will be a guest artist in the 2018-2019 Mills College Art lecture series.

Like our Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Art lecture series at Mills College provides their MFA candidates and Department of Art and Visual Culture students and faculty a chance to invite renown contemporary artists and scholars to campus in order to gain greater perspective on current ideas and practices in the contemporary art world. 

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Alum Hedwig Brouckaert in “Sun Worship and Solar Machines”

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.

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Manuel Fernando Rios on Chicano Art

When you say, “Chicano,” you have something in mind. Who is a Chicano? Is a Chicano a Mexican born in the United States or throughout the western hemisphere? 

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Julia Elsas at Brooklyn Clay

Alumni Julia Elsas (MFA 2009) will be participating in two exhibitions coordinated with Brooklyn Clay (BKLYN CLAY). “Sonic Mud” is a one-day on September 8 showcasing Brooklyn-based ceramic artists. “Open/Ended Identity” will display at Steuben Gallery (Pratt Institute) from September 7 to September 9.

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Julia Haft-Candell at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery

Julia Haft-Candell (BA 2005) will be in “Condo New York,” a collaborative exhibition by 47 galleries across 21 New York spaces. Julia will be exhibiting at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery.

The exhibition runs from June 29 to July 27, 2018.

Franklin Parrasch Gallery
53 East 64 Street
New York, NY

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Hong Chun Zhang on Long Hair

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.”

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Hedwig Brouckaert in FLAT??? Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles

Alum Hedwig Brouckaert (MFA 2005) is in the group exhibition “Flat??? Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles” at the Kentler International Drawing Space. “Flat???” runs from June 5 to July 15, 2018.

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Alum Ryan Meyer in Wild Within

Ryan Meyer (MFA 2018) will be in the exhibition “Wild Within: In Search of the Natural Beneath — Skin, Soil, Planet (08°N, 78°N, 23°S)” at Sunbury House in London. The show, which runs from July 21 to August 8, 2018, is a project of the collective Guest Projects and La Wayaka Current. 

“Wild Within” is a space for Londoners to re-connect with some of the wildest places remaining on our planet and in turn reflect on their own communities, habitats and themselves at a moment of ecological crisis, in transformative, hopeful and inspiring new ways.

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Connelly Receives 2018 Keister and Allen Art Purchase Prize

Jodi Connelly

Jodi Connelly has won the 2018 Keister and Allen Art Purchase Prize, given to a UC Davis art studio Master of Fine Arts student annually.

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Lisa Rybovich Crallé

Lisa Rybovich Crallé (MFA 2011) will return to “Relay” at Mills College’s Slide Space. “Relay” includes Amy Nathan, Hannah Perrine Mode and Sophie Lourdes as well as Crallé and opens June 8, running through June 29th.

Photo Gallery

Lisa Rybovich Crallé in Swimming Pool

Lisa Rybovich Crallé (MFA 2011) has created the floating set for a new performance project designed and performed by Mara Poliak, Layton Lachman, and Abby Crain. The project “Swimming Pool” will be at CounterPulse May 17-19 with shows starting at 8 pm.

Swimming Pool debuts at CounterPulse next week (May 17-19).

Tickets can be purchased here. Use discount code POOL for $10 tickets.

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Lisa Rybovich Crallé at John McNeil Studio

Lisa Rybovich Crallé (MFA 2011) will give an artist talk on Thursday, May 10 at 5:30 to discuss new work and her show currently at the John McNeil Studios / Limited Edition Gallery.

Her exhibition will run to July 30th.

John McNeil Studio
720 Channing Way
Berkeley, California

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Amy Lincoln in Sun, Moon, Stars

Alum Amy Lincoln (B.A. 2003) will have a solo exhibition – “Sun, Moon, Stars” — at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City. This is her second solo exhibition at this gallery.

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Anna Valdez in “The Beyond”

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.

Crystal Bridges
600 Museum Way 
Bentonville AR, 72712
479.418.5700

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Robert Machoian at Montclair Film Festival

Alum Robert Machoian’s (MFA 2010) new short,  “Mother, Mother,” will be screened at the Montclair Film Festival May 3, 2018.

Robert collaborated with Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck to make this just released film starring Jen Nikolaisen.

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Hedwig Brouckaert at Project: ARTspace

Hedwig Brouckaert (MFA 2005) is in a group show exploring immigration entitled “Transitions.” Curated by Michael Kukla, “Transitions” runs from April 5th - May 4th, 2018 at Project: ARTspace in New York.

Joining Hedwig are Joan Grubin, Marietta Hoferer, Michael Kukla, Jaanika Peerna, Susan Schwalb, Ilene Sunshine, Natalie Albaladejo, Claudie Dadu, Jean Louis Gourreau, Joachim Griess, Lionel Laussedat, Doris Schlaepfer and Venice Spescha.    

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Steve Lambert at Re:Publica

Alum Steve Lambert (MFA 2006) will be participating in Re:Publica 18 in Berlin. He will give a keynote address on May 3 at 17:30 (or 8:30 am PDT) entitled “Building Fearless Futures” and on May 4 at 16:15 (7:15 am PDT) he will participate in a panel discussion called ”SolarPunk and going Post-Post-Apocalyptic.”

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Julia Couzens in “What’s MY Line?”

Alum Julia Couzens (MFA 1990) is participating in the exhibition “what’s MY line” at Transmitter in Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Kirk Stoller, “what’s MY line?” includes Adam Fowler, Alicia McCarthy, Miles Neidinger and Maria Vasconcelos in addition to Couzens.

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Kevin Frances at Galleri CC

Alum Kevin Frances (Art Studio, BA 2010) has a new show in Malmö, Sweden at Galleri CC entitled “Magpie.” The show is the cumulation of two years of work, and includes new woodblock prints, photos, and stereoscopic photographs in the black box gallery.

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Robert Machoian at the Tribeca Film Festival

Alum Robert Machoian’s (MFA 2010) film “When She Runs” will be showing at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.