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Art History faculty member Michele Bogart is at the forefront of efforts to conserve reliefs by Harlem Renaissance artist Richmond Barthé at Kingsborough houses in Brooklyn, as a recent piece has explored while highlighting the complexity of the issue:

Bogart is a champion of public art who is trying to find a champion for Barthé. NYCHA is facing an urgent capital needs deficit of billions, but maybe money to protect the frieze can be found elsewhere. Alternative funding from the City Council? The borough president’s office? A partnership with something like the Ford Foundation, which has made a cause out of public art and expression? Maybe the money is somewhere to fix what NYCHA couldn’t protect. Bogart points to the city Parks Department which she said does a solid job maintaining and monitoring public art.

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Apple Inc has recently recognized Professor Stephanie Dinkins’ research and community-centered efforts by featuring her as a local hero in their “Behind the Mac” ad campaign.

The New York Times recently featured Dinkins in its pages as an AI influencer: “Five AI Influencers in their Own Words” and was also featured in Wired: “The Case for Giving Robots an Identity.”

Additional, Dinkins was recently a guest on Tilted, A Lean in Podcast and on the All Turtles Podcast.

“Out of Body: Sculpture Post-Photography” at the bitforms gallery at 131 Allen St NYC, open between October 27 and December 2, 2018.

Artists: Claudia Hart, Susan Silas, Carla Gannis, and Associate Professor of Art Stephanie Dinkins.

Xinyu Wu, What should be tied, 2018, 23 x 30 x 23 cm

A new student show “One of a Kind” will be on display at the Central Reading Room in the Melville Library between November 6 and December 10, 2018.

Nobuho Nagasawa, the Art Studio Faculty Member who curated the show, described what’s on display in this way:

“In the new technological age, the role of the library has changed with the rise of the Internet, E-books, Kindles, and other means of reading.  Nevertheless, books have never failed to transport new ideas, relay messages, provoke thoughts, and challenge viewpoints. In this exhibition, “One of a Kind,” I asked each student in the senior seminar class to expand their individual art practice and to create a site-responsive work that is related to the function of the library as a beacon of knowledge, and a place for exploration.”

In a recent issue of New American Paintings, current MFA Maggie Avolio was featured and profiled and had her artist statement published online. She describes her practice as being engaged in producing:

“…minimalistic artwork that exists simultaneously as painting, sculpture, and installation. Raw canvas is unwoven, torn, folded, or reconstructed to create three-dimensional form. I create marks using unconventional methods like stitching. Paint is absent from the canvas yet sometimes appears in the surrounding area, creating a new spatial identity.”

Art History Faculty Katy Siegel was recently interviewed about her show at the Rose Art Museum. Among other reflections, she notes that:

“That earlier generation of women artists was
 not given the option of being feminists—and, even later in life, many were not interested in embracing that identity when it was on offer. Nonetheless, they faced the same issues as later generations, and enacted some of the same adaptations and solutions: playing both at femininity and masculinity as artificial roles, speaking to each other in private in a different manner than in public speech, and letting their work be filled with their own, unnamed sensibility. Female artists today are more likely to be able to say things out loud, but perhaps still run similar risks in the media and popular conceptions—being pinned down by categorical thinking about gender and identity.”

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Athena recently had the opportunity to make a new work for the Crystal Bridges Museum’s traveling exhibition “Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, ” on display between October 05, 2018 – January 07, 2019.

For Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, artist Athena LaTocha visited Northwest Arkansas and Pea Ridge National Military Park. The result of this visit is a work specific to the region, both the lush topography of the Ozarks as well as what the land has seen over time.

The entire cultural history of the land impacts LaTocha’s work– in this case, the Trail of Tears and the Civil War. During her visit, certain elements of the Arkansas landscape lingered: burnt trees, the smell of wet earth, sun on the rocks, and the erosion and striation of rock features. LaTocha connected the burnt wood and bluff overhangs with the experience of war and trauma in the land’s past.

Stony Brook Art History MA Barbara Christen, author of Cass Gilbert, Life and Work, will be featured on a podcast on the topic of the Brooklyn Army Terminal (the military-site-turned-manufacturing-complex), during OPEN HOUSE NY weekend.

Art Studio Faculty Member Nobuho Nagasawa’s sculpture “Nest” that is installed in the LA Metro has been chosen to be included in CODAmagazine’s new issue “Suspended in Space IV.” The editors describe the sculpture in this way:

This artwork on the station mezzanine alludes to migration and travel, a significant theme, which acknowledges the history of the immigrant community in this part of the city. An old map with images of flying birds, and a suspended spiral nest with an “egg” symbolizes “home.” The egg glows and pulsates to the rhythm of the artists’ heartbeat.

Reflecting on the histories of migration in East Los Angeles, Nagasawa’s work was completed in 2009.

Random Acts of Flyness is a late-night series from artist Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty). The six-episode season explores evergreen cultural idioms such as patriarchy, white supremacy and sensuality from a new, thought-provoking perspective. Associate Professor Stephanie Dinkins will appear on the Season Finales (episode 6) where she describes her encounters with a simulated black woman, drawing upon her previous work in relation to Artificial Intelligence and Race.

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Professor Michele H. Bogart will be speaking about her new book Sculpture in Gotham on Wednesday, September 26th at 6:30 at Brooklyn‘s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. Dr. Harry Weil, Ph.D. , M.A., and B.A. in, Art History, Stony Brook University, heads up Green-Wood’s Public Programs. Tickets can be purchased online here.

Art Professor Nobuho Nagasawa’s new public sculpture “Luminescence” at Hunter’s Point South Park is now open to visitors, and has received positive press from a number of outlets, including from Curbed NY and The Architectural Record and who notes that:

“The isle’s dune-like upward curvature and the plantings that surround its edge contribute to a sense of enclosure, most strikingly at its top, which offers a tranquil setting to take in the skyline. It is an encounter rich in dichotomies: isolation and connection, density and openness, the natural and the machine-made.”

Additionally, Art History Professor Katy Siegal’s curated show at the Met Breuer featuring the work of sculptor Jack Whitten has been reviewed by the New York Times, which notes:

“The cross-cultural, cross-media conversations resulting from the show’s disparate objects swirl around the visitor, conveying a vital sense of how artists thrive in an aesthetic space that is porous and fluid, distilling experiences and transforming sources.”

The exhibition, which features forty sculptures and eighteen of the artist’s paintings, will be open until December 2nd, 2018.

The Fall 2018 Graduate Courses for Art History and Studio have now been posted online. Please feel free to peruse the selection of courses on offer at the following department page: Art Department Graduate Courses