Artists Selected by Eugenie Tsai to include Fay Ku, Rossana Martinez, Jean Shin, and Swoon
"Four Artists: Work by Recent Pratt Alumni"
June 15 - July 28, 2007 and September 4 - 15, 2007
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
New York, N.Y.2007— "Four Artists: Work by Recent Pratt Alumni," an exhibition that will highlight the work of four prominent artists who are alumni of Pratt's Fine Arts Department, will open with a reception at Pratt Manhattan Gallery from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 14.
Eugenie Tsai, director of Curatorial Affairs at P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center in Long Island City, has chosen artists Fay Ku, Rossana Martinez, Jean Shin, and Swoon, all of whom have received degrees from Pratt Institute within the last ten years, to be featured in the exhibition.
Tsai's choice of these particular artists from Pratt's large pool of alumni, who are currently making a significant impact on the contemporary art scene both nationally and internationally, came after extensive research and careful consideration of each artist's style and influence. The exhibition will include drawing, installation art, and site-specific work.
Born in Taiwan, Fay Ku came to the United States at the age of three. Ku graduated from Pratt with a master's degree in fine arts and a master's of science in art history, receiving both degrees in 2006. She draws on her personal and cultural history to create large scale drawings and paintings on paper that juxtapose a delicate touch with narrative insight. Part old-world Japanese art and part modern animation, Ku's elegant line and seductive patterning refer directly to traditional Asian art, while her sharply focused subject matter subverts any decorative connotations by depicting images revolving around issues of childhood and identity. She has had solo exhibitions at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut, Metaphor Contemporary Art in New York City, and A.I.R. Gallery also in New York.
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