A recent Huffington Post profile calls BFA Fine Arts Department faculty member Farrell Brickhouse’s paintings “small, jewel-like emotion-objects, brimming with authentic, unmediated feeling.” In the article, Brickhouse shares his creative influences, which include the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History and Carl Jung’s book Man and His Symbols.
Image: Farrell Brickhouse, How It Goes II, 2010.
In the Greek language, arithmos is the word for “number”; for recent graduate Jonathan Beer (BFA 2010 Illustration), “Arithmos 6″ is the title of a one-night-only exhibition he’s organized that features work in a variety of media by six SVA alumni.
On Thursday, August 19, 6 – 11pm, “Arithmos 6″ will be on view at Theater Lab’s Studio C, 137 West 14th Street, featuring work by Beer, Ben Adcroft (BFA 2010 Fine Arts), Kyle Fetzer (BFA 2010 Graphic Design), Billy Norrby (BFA 2010 Illustration), JoAnne Ruggeri (BFA 1981 Illustration) and Rukiye Sahin (BFA 2010 Graphic Design).
Image: Jonathan Beer, Pontifex II, 2010.
Taking inspiration from visuals found in textbooks from the 1950s, alumnus Richard Deon (BFA 1978 Fine Arts) explores and re-contextualizes familiar icons for his solo exhibition “Paradox and Conformity” at the Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers. The exhibition, which includes paintings, prints and two large banners design specifically for the museum, runs through Sunday, September 5. Click here to read the New York Times review.
We asked SVA students and faculty to send in work they were creating over the summer. This is one in an occasional series of Summer Session posts.
BFA Fine Arts Department student Rosalyn Yoon hasn’t let the summer break slow down her painting pace, as seen in this sampling of work she’s completed between semesters.
Images: Rosalyn Yoon, Untitled, Red and Wake Up, 2010.
Working with a multitude of materials from clay to mirrors to sunglasses, artist and alumnus Anna Sew Hoy (BFA 1998 Fine Arts) spends much of her time in her Highland Park studio-home. Sew Hoy’s studio and work were recently featured in a Los Angeles Times profile of the artist. The article praises Sew Hoy, saying she “has an indisputable talent for clay—a knack for drawing out its soulful, expressive qualities without tipping into preciousness or novelty… She brings the same degree of sensitivity to more banal materials as well, and the effects can seem magical: denim takes on the delicacy of lace; cellphone cords assume an organic vitality of vines or ferns.”
Sew Hoy’s work was shown at a solo exhibition at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co gallery in New York in April 2010.
As summer’s characteristic weather patterns send New Yorkers to public pools and weekends out of town, SVA alumnus and BFA Fine Arts Department faculty and staff member Erik Guzman (MFA 2003 Fine Arts; BFA 1996 Fine Arts) is presenting a public-art project that is uniquely attuned to the season’s climate. Weather Beacon is a multimedia sculpture installed at the World Financial Center (WFC), 200 Vesey Street, that wirelessly pulls in weather data from the Internet and transforms the information into constantly shifting patterns of light and movement.
Guzman conceptualized Weather Beacon as a way to tie together the elemental flow of nature through weather with the contemporary flow of information via the Web. “It’s a translation tool, or oracle, that allows for the visualization of the invisible forces of nature,” he says. Weather Beacon will be on view outside of the WFC’s Winter Garden through the end of 2010. For more information, visit Guzman’s Web site or the project’s Facebook page.
Image: Weather Beacon at the World Financial Center; photo by Erik Guzman.
On the cover of the June issue of ARTnews is a detail of a miniature recreation of alumnus Inka Essenhigh’s (MFA 1994 Fine Arts) studio, as rendered by fellow alumnus Joe Fig (BFA 1991 Fine Arts, MFA 2002 Fine Arts). Fig has created several miniature models of artists working in their studios, and the detail accompanies an article about museums exhibitions that aim to connect visitors with artists’ studios, not only finished works.
A feature article about alumnus Justine Kurland (BFA 1996 Photography) is also included in the issue. Kurland has traveled across the U.S. investigating various subcultures with her photography of hobos, communes and Renaissance Faire participants. Brian Wallis, chief curator at the International Center of Photography tells ARTnews, “Her art is a combination of her personal subjective vision and this rich understanding of history and politics that’s embedded in the work in a very subtle way.”
We asked SVA students and faculty to send in work they were creating over the summer. This is one in an occasional series of Summer Session posts.
BFA Fine Arts Department faculty member Farrell Brickhouse is keeping up on the events of the summer by creating paintings based on newspaper photos.
Images: Farrell Brickhouse, (top) Dance of the Bombed—Last Dance, 2010; (bottom) Falling Youth, 2010.
As part of MoMA PS1’s quinquennial exhibition “Greater New York,” alumnus Ei Arakawa (BFA 2004 Fine Arts), along with the rest of the artistic collective Grand Openings, will co-opt a conference room on the museum’s third floor to produce a book. The exhibition presents work made by New York-based artists within the past five years and also features artists-in-residence—like Grand Openings—who are invited to experiment with new ideas within PS1’s building for the duration of the exhibition. The Moment, the blog of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, interviewed Arakawa about the performance, his studies and SVA and working as an artist in New York.
“Greater New York” runs through Monday, October 18, at 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, New York.
Seattle Weekly ran a feature on alumnus and faculty member Tim Rollins (BFA 1977 Fine Arts) and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), a youth art program he has been running in the South Bronx for 25 years. The article covers the traveling exhibition “Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History,” now up at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum.
