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Parsons MFA Fine Arts Students Design
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| Untitled, Genevieve White, 2009 |
NEW YORK, March 3, 2009 – Parsons The New School for Design will present a site-specific installation by students in its MFA Fine Arts program at PULSE New York, taking place at Pier 40 on the West Side Highway from March 5 – 8, 2009. The installation will serve as a reading room for visitors and feature work by students chosen by independent curator Eva Diaz. This is the second year that Parsons has created an installation for the fair. Parsons will present a talk with the curator on Thursday, March 5, 6 pm, as part of the PULSE PROFILES series.
"Being selected to create an onsite installation at PULSE is an amazing opportunity for our students to interact with the larger art world," said Parsons MFA Fine Arts Director Anthony Aziz. "Working with Eva Diaz, the students will create a space for reading, relaxation, discussion and contemplation set apart from the frenetic pace of the fair itself. In addition to presenting work from the MFA Fine Arts studios at Parsons, the space will feature books, magazines and other media that will enable visitors to sample what students are reading and thinking about in today's art schools."
The installation incorporates pieces by each of the more than forty Fine Arts MFA candidates at Parsons, as well as books lent by the students that form an important part of their personal collections. "With an innovative installation design by sculpture students Angela Basile, Daniel Carlson, and Bojan Mitrevski, the booth is conceived as a hybrid space that integrates the material culture of the studio with the intellectual culture of the classroom," said Diaz.
Following its participation in PULSE New York, Parsons will present an exhibition of work of its graduating MFA Fine Arts students at an exhibition on view at The Kitchen in New York from May 7-16, 2009. An opening reception will be held on May 7, from 6-9 pm. For more information, please visit http://finearts.parsons.edu.
About the Curator
Eva Díaz is an art historian and critic, and was most recently a curator at Art in General in New York. She will soon defend her Princeton University dissertation titled “Chance and Design: Experimentation at Black Mountain College” advised by Hal Foster. Throughout 2006-2007 she curated a series of exhibitions about art and performance at Black Mountain College at the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina. Her work on experimentation, art history, and curatorial practice appeared in Curating Subjects, edited by Paul O’Neill, published by Open Editions in London. She is recently curated the exhibition and accompanying catalogue “Mind the Gap,” with the artist Beth Stryker, examining artists’ interventions in interstitial spaces in cities at Smack Mellon Gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn. She is currently working on a show about art and alternative architecture called “Dome Culture in the 21st Century,” to open at Art in General in spring 2009. Eva was on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program from 1999-2008, and taught Art History at Sarah Lawrence College in 2008.
About the MFA Fine Arts Program at Parsons The New School for Design
Located in New York City, Parsons The New School for Design is one of the most prestigious, comprehensive schools of art and design in the world. Its Fine Arts programs encompass both a BFA and MFA program, overseen by Fine Arts Chair Coco Fusco. Parsons MFA Program in Fine Arts, directed by Anthony Aziz, is a critically engaged two-year program that is a combination of studio, theory and professional practice. Its full-time, adjunct and visiting faculty are celebrated members of the New York art community who exhibit and publish worldwide and our students come from numerous backgrounds and cultures. They work with a variety of media and disciplines, including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance, digital media, installation, and photography. For more information, please visit http://finearts.parsons.edu.
About PULSE NEW YORK
PULSE is the leading US art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art. Held annually in Miami and New York, PULSE bridges the gap between main and alternative fairs and provides participating galleries with a platform to present new works to a strong and growing audience of collectors, art professionals and art lovers.
General Information
PULSE New York will take place March 5 – 8 at Pier 40 on the West Side Highway at West Houston Street in Greenwich Village. The fair will be open Thursday, March 5, 12 noon – 8 pm; Friday, March 6, 12 noon – 8 pm; Saturday, March 7, 12 noon – 8 pm and Sunday, March 8, 12 noon – 5 pm. For more information, please visit www.pulse-art.com.
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