Alan Foreman 00 FAV Mr. Sheep and Sleepy Bear and The Department of Dreams, a wonderful series of six short animations Alan created, designed, directed and produced for Nickelodeon, aired last spring on the company’s YouTube and Facebook channels. He recently relocated to Los Angeles, where he’s a supervising producer for Nickelodeon.
1999 continued Brooklyn-based artist Joseph Hart IL exhibited his own paintings in Blood Orange, a spring solo show inspired by fatherhood, at Halsey McKay gallery in East Hampton, NY and simultaneously curated a group exhibition downstairs called Hog’s Curve. Jarrett Krosoczka IL (see page 11) ANIMUS, a graphic novel by longtime RISD Illustration faculty member Antoine Revoy FAV, was published last summer by First Second Books. The ghostly tale is inspired by the Japanese folktales Antoine heard while growing up in Tokyo. Multimedia artist Ryan Wallace IL (NYC) recently curated Night, Shortly, a group exhibition that included work by Joseph Hart IL and Colby Bird MFA 04 PH and ran last summer at Susan Inglett Gallery in NYC (where he lives). Ryan also showed his own work in Unlanding, a fall solo exhibition at the same gallery.
right: photo by Michael Stravato
2000 Artist Renee Monteiro-Bernard ID of South Dartmouth, MA recently created a website called Divine Dark Room where she posts meditative images of nature she creates using scanner bed photography.
In late September filmmaker Jonathan Bogarin PT and his creative partner, Wassaic Project co-director Elan Bogarin, spoke about their film 306 Hollywood at a screening hosted by the Wassaic Project at the Quad Cinema in NYC. The film, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, is a magical-realist documentary about a brother and sister who undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s home in New Jersey. New paintings by Håvard Homstvedt IL were on view last April and May at Galleri Riis in Oslo, Norway (where he lives). Masks are a thematic cornerstone in Håvard’s compositions, with face-like images hovering over loosely articulated landscapes.
Juliana Polastri was featured in In Good Company 2018, a group exhibition last fall showcasing emerging designers. They were the lead collection designers for the show, which was co-curated by Fernando Mastrangelo and Architectural Digest editor Hannah Martin and on view in Mastrangelo’s Brooklyn studio.
2001 In July Brooklyn-based author and art historian Andrianna Campbell PR participated in a public dialogue with experimental artist Luchita Hurtado as part of the UCLA Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2018 exhibition. “Much of my work is about equalizing things and destroying any barrier between what’s high and low,” says NYC-based artist Dan Colen
Erin Walrath 00 IL Nothing Is Broken (2018, book spines, archival glue, 17" diameter x 10" deep) is among the assemblage, collage and sculptural works Erin exhibited in a solo show last spring at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY. Based in Roxbury, CT, she primarily works with discarded book covers, chopping them up and reassembling them into sculptures rich in color and texture.
PT. “I hope I’m ever-changing.” Last September he discussed his practice and experimental approach to materials at the de la Cruz Collection in Miami.
Since earning an MFA in 2017 from the Cambridge School of Art in the UK, Emma Copley PT has shown her work in a solo exhibition at The Hospital Club in London and in the group Summer Show hosted by the Stephen Perse Foundation, where
she recently completed a residency. Emma lives in Cambridge. In August artist Matt Kenny PT (Brooklyn) showed work in The House on Country Road One, a solo exhibition at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, NY. The subject of the paintings on view was an abandoned structure in Secaucus, NJ that Matt originally spotted from the window of a passing train.
A silk-and-wool tapestry by Ariana Massouh TX and
Vincent Valdez 01 IL Almost two years after acquiring The City I (2015–16, oil on canvas, 74 x 360"), the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX unveiled the painting at the opening of Vincent Valdez: The City, a solo exhibition that ran from July–October. In confronting the persistence of racism in America, the Houston-based painter says he’s “invoking the sinister yet very real existence of...white supremacy today — hiding in clear sight.”
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