NYAB Event - “Babylone- U.S.A” Exhibition

“Babylone- U.S.A” Exhibition

The Boiler

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“Babylone- U.S.A” is an exhibition of selected works by second-year Pratt Institute M.F.A students at The Boiler and
curated by Daniel S. Palmer.

Pratt Institute, a global leader in higher education, will present “Babylone-U.S.A” as part of Pratt Shows 2014, an annual series of events and exhibitions that features the year’s boldest ideas and best work in fine arts, fashion, film/video, photography, and design. Pratt’s M.F.A.’s exhibition, which is curated by Daniel S. Palmer—the Leon Levy Assistant Curator at the Jewish Museum, New York, where he curates exhibitions of contemporary and modern art—will be on view at The Boiler (April 8-17, 2016). The show will feature selected works by 17 second-year MFA candidates that exemplify the complicated process of finding a voice to articulate one’s realities in today’s moment of crisis. As these emerging artists are beginning to establish themselves within a troubled art world, they should be praised for addressing a myriad of significant subjects rather than merely producing more decorative objects for the commercial art cycle. A sampling of works on view are listed below and more information and images are available upon request:

· Artists like Lan Chung-Hsuan and Joel Han create brooding photographs that capture a lonely, melancholic view of both natural and urban surroundings, conveying an artificial or uncertain relationship with the environment.

· Lea Patrice Fales’ hand-crafted steel frames emphasize the precision of assembly exemplified by the heyday of American industrial manufacture but transpose this mode of making to a fine art context indicative of our post-industrial moment.

· As a hopeful retort to the bleakness we confront, Tal Gilboa and Elizabeth Kleberg’s “Waterfall Gate” offers improvised playfulness, spectacle, and perhaps even magic.

Media

• Painting
• Photography
• Film
• Video installation

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