“Already Broken: The Personal That Is Not Ours” Exhibition
SVA Chelsea Gallery
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School of Visual Arts presents “Already Broken: The Personal That Is Not Ours,” exhibition of works by MFA Art Practice students.
JD Raenbeau documents his alter ego, Cordelia Fagonard, and her return to his childhood bedroom, where she plays with My Little Pony dolls. Samuel Nichols’ Tuff Rabbit is an abstract portrait of his uncle Jo “Butch” Satmary, a professional drag racer and his childhood hero, who he later learned was arrested on drug charges. “Unnatural History,” Bryan Moore’s series of drawings and sculptures, portrays historical giants, including presidents, statesmen and dinosaurs, each of whom have met untimely deaths.
According to Goodeve and Strycker, “The exhibition takes its name from a Buddhist teaching of Ajahn Chah, as explained by Mark Epstein in Psychotherapy without the Self:
Do you see this glass? I love this glass. It holds the water admirably. When I tap it, it has a lovely ring. When the sun shines on it, it reflects the light beautifully. But when the wind blows and the glass falls off the shelf and breaks or if my elbow hits it and it falls to the ground I say of course. But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.”
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Schedule
from July 10, 2014 to August 06, 2014
May 30 through August 22, gallery closes at 5:00pm on Fridays.
Opening Reception on 2014-07-10 from 18:00 to 20:00