Matthew Barney (center) walks MFA students and undergraduates through his new exhibition, Matthew Barney: Redoubt, at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Photo: Yale University Art Gallery | Jessica Smolinski.
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In the closing days of February, sixteen MFA students alongside three undergraduate art majors attended a special exhibition preview and talk with artist Matthew Barney, B.A. 1989. Arranged by School of Art Dean Marta Kuzma, students were given the opportunity to meet with the artist and view the exhibition, Matthew Barney: Redoubt, two days before it opened to the public. This is the artist’s first major exhibition at his alma mater, showcasing his trademark interdisciplinary and multimedia work.
An exhibition of the contemporary artist’s latest body of work (2016–19), Matthew Barney: Redoubt includes four monumental sculptures, more than forty engravings and electroplated copper plates, and an artist-conceived catalogue. Also featured is an eponymous two-hour film that traces the story of a wolf hunt in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountain range, intertwining the theme of the hunt with those of mythology and artistic creation.
The exhibition is on view through June 16, 2019 at the Yale University Art Gallery, before traveling to Beijing in the fall of 2019, and London in the spring of 2020.
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Photo: Yale University Art Gallery | Jessica Smolinski.
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Upcoming Spring Events
All events are free and open to the public.
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A Conversation with Irma Boom and Jacqueline de Jong
Thursday, March 28 at 6pm
1156 Chapel Street, Graphic Design Atrium (Room 104)
The Graphic Design department presents a conversation between artists Irma Boom and Jacqueline de Jong. World-renowned book designer Irma Boom is most well-known for her design of the book Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor (2006), an award-winning publication by Yale University Press. Jacqueline de Jong is the sole woman member of the famed “Situationists"; her "Situationist Times" and other documents are archived at Yale’s Beinecke Library. More information >>
Hito Steyerl: An Artist Talk
Monday, April 1 at 6:30pm
EIK, 32 Edgewood Avenue
Hito Steyerl is a returning Hayden Distinguished Fellow at the Yale School of Art and a Professor in Experimental Film and Video at the Berlin University of the Arts. A filmmaker, writer, and cultural critic, Steyerl works at the intersections of visual art, film, theory, and critique. Her investigative practice examines the dissemination and decay of digital images—and the global and cultural implications that arise from the consumption of these images en masse. Through essays, films, installations, and lecture-performances, Steyerl addresses how money and power affect the art market, the spread of disinformation through digital images, and the roles that developing technologies and twenty-first century capitalism play in our evolving cognizance and ethics. More information >>
MFA Open Studios 2019
Saturday, April 6 & Sunday, April 7
12pm-6pm
The Yale School of Art will be hosting its annual graduate open studios in April, featuring work from the departments of Graphic Design, Painting/Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture. Studios will be open to the public and are located across three buildings on Yale’s campus in downtown New Haven: 1156 Chapel Street, 353 Crown Street, and 36 Edgewood Avenue. During the open studios there will be a shuttle bus service running every 15 minutes from New Haven’s Union Station to the Yale School of Art. More information >>
Tavia Nyong'o in Conversation with EJ Hill
Monday, April 8 at 6:30pm
1156 Chapel Street, Room G10 (The Pool)
A.L. Steiner's course Irregular Shaped Tools presents Tavia Nyong'o, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies and Theater & Performance Studies at Yale, in conversation with artist EJ Hill, in conjunction with the publication of Nyongo's latest book Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018). More information >>
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Robert Reed Drawing Workshops: Drawing Intensive & Pedagogical Discourse
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MFA students and undergraduates attend the Robert Reed Drawing Workshops in Penn State's Stuckeman Family Building. Photos by Sophy Naess, lecturer in Painting/Printmaking.
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Over the weekend of February 21–24, a group of undergraduate and graduate students from the School of Art attended the Robert Reed workshops at Penn State University in State College, PA.
Robert Reed (1938 – 2014) was the first African American professor tenured by the Yale School of Art and taught drawing and painting for 50 years. His rigorous pedagogy influenced generations. Participants in the workshops at Penn State had the unique opportunity to learn about Reed’s innovative studio curriculum through a series of lectures, discussions, and workshops led by his former students. An exhibition of Reed’s work was on view nearby at the Palmer Museum.
Workshops such as “Re-Animating the Drawing Process” led by Jessica Tam, “More with Less” taught by Clint Jukkala, and “Building the Hat” taught by Tea Chai Beer took up Reed’s methods of physical engagement, repetition, learning by doing, and bringing the unexpected into the classroom as a means of ungrounding preconceived ideas about the medium.
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Ripe at Dawn: Sculpture MFA Thesis Show Group #2 Opens Friday
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Open March 29 – April 6, 2019
Reception: Saturday, April 6 from 6–8pm
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Featuring:
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola
Azza El Siddique
Kerri Conlon
Alfredo Diaz
Catalina Ouyang
Suzanna Zak
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Gallery hours for Spring 2019:
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Monday: 10am - 2pm
Tuesday, Thursday: 10am - 5pm
Wednesday: 10am - 2:30pm
Friday: 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday: 1pm - 5:30pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm
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Alumni!
Let's be in touch.
Send updates and news, and say hello:
SchoolofArtAlumni@yale.edu
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