NYAB Event - "Figure It Out" Exhibition

"Figure It Out" Exhibition

SVA Chelsea Gallery

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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Figure It Out” an exhibition of paintings by current graduate students, featuring abstract and representational approaches in two-dimensional form.

In Samuel T. Adams’ paintings, biomorphic characters co-exist with one another in conflict and resolution. Cultural phenomena, current events, literature, ancient ruins and Old Masters such as Hieronymus Bosch and Giovanni Battista Piranesi all influence the subject matter. Adams is a current student in the MFA Fine Arts Department.

Using banal objects from the New York City landscape in her oil paintings, Noa Charuvi investigates our relationship with urban space. The artist pushes familiar subjects?such as an oxidized vinyl awning of a storefront or a luxury high-rise under construction?into the realm of abstraction. Charuvi is a current student in the MFA Fine Arts Department

Christina Sucgang’s abstract paintings emphasize the artist’s experience at the moment of creation. Using the lush, tactile quality of the paint to represent beauty as temporal and relative rather than fixed in time and space, the artist explores abstraction through and engages with formalist concerns. Sucgang is a current student in the MFA Fine Arts Department.

Autobiographical memories and a love for photography are the inspirations for Jennifer Young’s figurative oil paintings. Young uses photographic references to represent women in various settings. Models are carefully positioned in each scene to recreate the circumstance and emotional state of recollected experiences. Young graduated from the BFA Fine Arts Department in 2007 and is a current student in the MAT Art Education Department.

Curated by Jessica Hale.