One night only!

An independent group show featuring special works by participants and graduates of the SVA MFA Fine Arts and SVA MFA Art Practice programs.

Featuring Kristen Bisson, Hovey Brock, Donna Troy Cleary, Simone Couto, Alexandra Hammond, Bryan Anthony Moore, Qinmin Liu, Anthony Donatelle, Art Vidrine, Susan Sechler Luss, Nadine Faraj, and Eli Barak.

Location: Open Gallery Space, 355A Bowery, NY, 10003

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Announcing “Battle of the Masters” a pop-up group show that pits the best of the School of Visual Arts MFA in Art Practice against the best of SVA’s MFA in Fine Arts in an epic showdown.

In the Art Practice corner, Kristen Bisson duels with notions of home, belonging, and memory with keen esthetic moves. Poetry, bones, flesh, wood, clay, water, and steam collide in Simone Couto’s multidisciplinary meditations on the fundamental forces of nature. Alex Hammond’s architectonic installation aims squarely at the soft solar plexus of childhood’s innocence. Qinmin Liu skewers the logic of binary computer code in a live virtuosic performance of slashing brushwork—stand back. Bryan Moore’s ironic rope-a-dope with the images of American exceptionalism bring it crashing to the floor under the weight of its own contradictions. Hovey Brock channels the spirits of the Pre-Socratics in a display of possessed painterly frenzy.

In the Fine Arts corner, Art Vidrine takes music as his weapon of choice to rip away the hidden conventions of political theater. Donna Cleary snares domestic detritus with nets of fibers and new contexts, creating hybrids that bring the marginal and denigrated to life. Nadine Faraj thrashes the trivialization of sexual connection with images that conjure living touch. Anthony Donatelle obliterates the gaps between unlikely objects with devastatingly subtle technique. Eli Barak fuses performance, installation, sculpture, and image into a fearsome engine of social critique. Susan Luss weaves found objects, drawings, photography, and light into a dizzying assault on the senses.

Let the Battle begin!

One night only!

In her MFA thesis show, HERE AND THERE / NOW AND THEN, Kristen Bisson excavates and unpacks of her relationship with home and place, and in particular, tracing and investigating loss as it relates to moving and separation. With these works, she takes a deep look at absence and presence, her relationship with her Dad, and memory, and how they have impacted her definitions, beliefs and relationships with those ideas of place, home and loss.

Refreshments will be available to enjoy during the show.

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MFA Art Practice Summer Screening at Videology this Friday, July 25, 2014 at 6:30pm!

Participants: Callie Barker, Kristen Bisson, Hovey Brock, Amy Dolan, Alexandra Hammond, Brandi Martin, Bryan Anthony Moore, Sam Nichols, JD Raenbeau, Lou Woods, Pippi Zornoza

Featured Faculty: Sarah G. Sharp, Mark Tribe

Curator: Allison Hewitt Ward

Thumbnail Image: Screen capture from "and/EiTHER" (2013), Kristen Bisson

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Group Exhibition: Kristen Bisson, Danielle Lange, David Aronson, Katie Lewis, Jared Friedman, David Arms. Please join us for the Opening Reception on January 6, 2014 from 8:00pm to 11:00pm! The exhibition will run from January 6th to the 9th. Visit The Living Gallery for more information, including gallery hours and contact.