HELLO! My Name is CUNY, 2nd Annual CUNY MFA Meet-up

HELLO! my name is CUNY 2010
2nd annual CUNY MFA Meet-Up & Slide-Showdown!

SUNDAY April 25th, 5-8PM
@Tom & Jerry's Bar 288 Elizabeth St, NYC (NoHo)

BROOKLYN COLLEGE • CITY COLLEGE • HUNTER COLLEGE • LEHMAN COLLEGE • QUEENS COLLEGE

Current CUNY MFA Students from the boroughs will project their work while knocking 'em back. Open to alumni, faculty, and friends of the CUNY MFA system. Unlike last years event where we hung our work, this year your work will be projected.**

THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL CUNY MFA STUDENTS AND ALUMNI


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*PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE CUNY ART MFA GROUP FOR MORE INFO: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cunyartmfa/

**IF YOU ARE A CURRENT MFA STUDENT, PLS send 10 jpgs to brklynartmfa@gmail.com by SATURDAY MIDNIGHT - Deadline Extented!.

FORMAT:
* email subject line: "CUNY MFA Meet-up 2010 SLIDES"
* include first and last name & website URL if you have one.
* size: 1024px x 768px at 72dpi (we dont need super hi-rez)
* use this format for titling:

BC_LastF_01.jpg <-- where BC is School initials, BC, QC, CC, HC
BC_LastF_02.jpg <-- followed by LastnameFirstinitial & slide number

Projects in Bucharest

June-July, Works From the Balcony, an alternative project space in Bucharest will be opening its doors to the public for the first time this June in parallel with the Bucharest Biennial 4. Located in district 2 of Bucharest the space is easily accessible sizing at 1000 square meters of raw space in an early 1900’s villa.

Here we will be hosting a series of events and exhibitions encouraging immediate public access to cross-cultural values in the contemporary arts and culture.

Participating artists:

Tudor Bratu (video & sculpture)
Lansing-Dreiden (video)
Nadja Verena Marcin (video)
Declan Rooney (video)
Ama Saru & Hsiao Chen (video and sculpture)
Antonio Serna (site specific installation with video and sculpture)
James Sham (video)
Layard Thompson (video performance)
Rancourt & Yatsuk (video performance)

Visiting Artist: Clements, Donegan, Treib

Brooklyn College MFA Fine Arts
Graduate Studies Visiting Artist Lecture Series:

Art & Teaching Panel w/
DAWN CLEMENTS
CHERYL DONEGAN
PATRICIA TREIB



Thursday April 22nd, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
BC Library Woody Tanger Auditorium

DAWN CLEMENTS
Clements’ endeavor to draw what’s around her often draws her into very large-scale work; the first work I saw 10 years ago was a 78-foot long drawing done during a residency in Middlebury, VT. Her work usually develops in a serendipitous way—she responds to what she sees and doesn’t know the end point until she reaches it. She may begin working on a very modest scale but the work often ends up many times larger as she glues pieces of paper to the edges of the working drawing where she decides to continue drawing. The wrinkles and tears that develop as a result of her process are the record of a very active, performative drawing practice. (above: Boiler, ink on paper. 2010)

CHERYL DONEGAN
Cheryl Donegan defines a generation of artists, many of whom are women, who first engaged in a new conceptual art practice in the early 1990s. Her work integrates the time-based, gestural forms of performance and video with forms such as painting, drawing, and installation. Provocative and irreverent, her body-based, performative video works put a subversive spin on issues relating to sex, gender, art-making, art history, and pop culture. (above: Untitled, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2009)

PATRICIA TREIB
Patricia Treib’s works were recently exhibited in “Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture” at the Kitchen. A solo presentation of her work was exhibited at John Connelly Presents in 2008. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Andrew Kreps and Guild & Greyshkul in New York, and Sutton Lane in Paris. She was awarded a studio residency through the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in 2007. Treib lives and works in Brooklyn. (above: Icons, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2008)

MFA Showcase Opening Reception-- Tonight 4/13, 5:30 to 8PM, SUBO 4th Floor

The Graduate Art Students Union (GASU), in collaboration with the Brooklyn College Student Center (SUBO) and the Art Galleries of Brooklyn College, presents MFA Showcase, a rotating exhibition now on display on the 4th Floor of the Student Center. The inaugural exhibition will be on view through October 2010.

An opening and reception for the artists will be held Tuesday, April 13th from 5:30 to 8:00 PM on the 4th floor of the Student Center (SUBO). Please join us for lots of food, drink and conviviality.

MFA Showcase is a group show featuring the work of 23 artists currently enrolled in the Brooklyn College Art MFA program. This new exhibition allows anyone in the Brooklyn College community to view, all in one place, a sampling of the world-class artwork that is being produced in the student studios of Boylan Hall. The artworks will visually enhance the fourth floor meeting and event spaces for the campus community.

Next fall, when a new group of Art MFA students arrives and has started working, the exhibition will be re-hung with all new work. In that way it will be regularly refreshed and will continue to represent the students currently in the program.

www.mfashowcase.blogspot.com

THIS FRIDAY & SAT: Open Studios at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College MFA
Open Studios Spring 2010

Boylan Hall, 4th, 5th, & 6th Floors
2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn NY (map)

2 or 5 train to Flatbush Ave.

FRI APRIL 16th 6-10 pm
SAT APRIL 17th 1-6 pm

Twenty-seven young artists from the Master of Fine Arts program at Brooklyn College (CUNY) will open their studios and invite the public to engage with their creative processes:

MFA Students: Linda Bernal • Julia Cocuzza • Jeff Frederick • David Friedman • Gregory Hayes • Megan Hays • John Keck • Luiza Kurzyna • Michele Liebler • David Loncle • Hector Madera-Gonzalez • Elias Melad • Allison Merz • JungHwa O'Connell • Madison Omahne • Juan Ortega • Marina Pavlutskaya • Ivan Rivera • Noosheen Roostami • Antonio Serna • Natalie Taylor • Miryana Todorova • Boris Torres • Matthew Wilson • Dominik Wyka • Erin Zelley • Jacob Zurilla

DOWNLOAD STUDIO FLOOR PLAN
2009/2010:
Brooklyn College Open Studios (pdf)