“In The Mesh” Exhibition

“In The Mesh” Exhibition

PS122 Gallery

This event has ended.

(an excerpt from the catalog essay by Faye Hirsch)
The nine students gathered under the rubric “In the Mesh” find themselves completing their MFA degrees in a world that has shifted seismically during their two years at Purchase College.

The nine artists represented here are negotiating both the 2016 election’s fallout of irreality and xenophobia, and the urgent prospect of ecological collapse. It seems the only action that matters in this particular “mesh,” where grand gesture and utopianism are equally defunct, is to seize creative agency wherever possible, and to form and re-form communities of like spirit and action. In making art, something they are doing with increasing facility and clarity, they have discovered positions that demand fluidity, flowing from their intimate ​consciousness and histories, into the larger world with all its ambiguities, and back again.​

(about the program)
The MFA Program at the School of Art+Design is a two‑year interdisciplinary graduate program in Visual Arts. The small and highly selective program fosters the artistic, intellectual and professional growth of each student through exposure to a variety of viewpoints represented by faculty, visiting artists and critics, and through independent studio work and academic studies. Essential to the program is the individual studio practice of each student. Through the use of a semi-private studio, along with tremendous facilities, each graduate is expected to produce a body of work during their two years in residence.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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