Stony Brook University
Department of Art
welcomes guest critic,
curator Regine Basha
Tuesday May, 11th, 2021
11:00am EST

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Basha was born in Israel to Iraqi parents, she grew up in Montreal and Los Angeles and attended New York University, Concordia University (Studio Art and Art History) and graduated from Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies’ inaugural class of 1996. Regine Basha has been curating innovative exhibitions for public institutions, civic spaces, magazines and private galleries nationally and internationally. With an exploratory approach to exhibition design, production and reception, Basha works closely with artists to create specific contexts in which to encounter the work. Her exhibitions have received grant awards from The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts as well as critical press in The New York Times, Artforum, Modern Painters, Art Papers, Wire, Bidoun, Art Lies, Artforum and NPR Radio. She currently sits on the board of Art Matters and Aurora Picture Show.

Basha will be in conversation with the graduating Master of Fine Arts students, Stuart Balius, Yifei Cheng, Marta Baumiller and Annemarie Waugh. All four artists are degree candidates in the Department of Art’s MFA program. The MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021, presenting their work in painting, sculpture, prints, photographs, video and installation art was recently on view at the Stony Brook University’s Zuccaire Gallery.

Stony Brook University
Department of Art
welcomes artist Coleman Collins
Friday May, 7th, 2021
3pm EST

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Coleman Collins is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Stone Mountain, Georgia. His work explores issues related to debt, world history, and social relations – how our economic and sociocultural systems converge to produce certain realities and fictions. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Carré d’Art, Nîmes; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Nothing Special, Los Angeles; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York; ltd los angeles, Los Angeles; Artspace, New Haven, and Human Resources Los Angeles. He received an MFA from UCLA in 2018, and was a 2017 resident at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. He lives in New York, where he was a 2019 participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Collins will discuss his art practice as well as his project “GuiltCoin” — a multidisciplinary work that was recently on view in the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor at the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (December 18, 2020–March 28, 2021). GuiltCoin is a thought experiment that explores the intimate relationship between guilt and debt. It seeks to contend with the notion of existential guilt. How is guilt already financialized, instrumentalized? What is its value – and what is value, anyway? How are we relating to each other, emotionally, and how can it be otherwise? The lecture will go over the conceptual framework for the work, some material aspects of its expression, and the collaborative process that led to its production.

 

On behalf of the Graduate Student Organization and Department of Art, we welcome

Franklin Evans
Friday April, 30th, 2021
1pm EST

Franklin Evans creates painting installations, which explore the artist’s studio as generative process and regenerative object. Born in Reno, NV, he has lived and worked in New York, NY since the 1990s. He has degrees from Stanford University (BA), University of Iowa (MA and MFA Painting), and Columbia University (MBA). Upcoming 2021 exhibitions include solo exhibitions fugitivemisreadings at Miles McEnery Gallery (New York, NY) and franklinsfootpaths at Figge Art Museum (Davenport, IA). He has had solo exhibition internationally and has participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues, which include, among others: MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Futura, Prague, Czech Republic; Museum Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo, Italy; Mykonos Biennale, Greece; Venice Biennale Collateral Exhibition, Italy; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; Federico Luger, Milan, Italy; Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY; Sue Scott, New York, NY. His work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art in America, New York Magazine, Artforum, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Brooklyn Rail, Art-Agenda, Flash Art International, Hyperallergic, Arte Fuse, ArtPulse, Art New England, Sculpture Magazine, among other publications. Awards and grants include: Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant; NYFA Fellowship Painting; PM Foundation; Tribesice; MacDowell; Yaddo; The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program; and LMCC Workspace Program. Evans’ work is included in public and private collections internationally, including, among others: Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH; Salomon Foundation, Annecy, France; Roanoke College, Salem, VA; Collection AGI, Verona, Italy. Evans has collaborated with choreographer Trajal Harrell, playwright Paul David Young, and curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, dialoguing among disciplines in his porous practice. His catalogue Franklin Evans: juddrules was published by Montserrat College of Art in 2015. His 2021 catalogue for fugitivemisreadings will include an essay by Raphael Rubinstein Franklin Evans as Episteme. Evans is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery (New York), FL Gallery (Milan), and Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston).

Overview

Stony Brook University seeks applicants for a combined MFA in Studio Art and Research Fellowship.  This is a funded opportunity offering tuition scholarship and research assistantship for an artist working with data, emerging, digital or computational media combined with an interest in race, gender, aging, social engagement, or human futurity.  The successful applicant will help build the Future Histories Studio while participating in the Studio Art MFA Program at Stony Brook University.

MFA students at Stony Brook enjoy spacious private studios, multiple campus-based galleries in which to show work and upon completion a terminal degree that qualifies graduates to teach at the university level. 

Requirements

A deep interest and practice in the intersection of equity and emerging technologies. The ability to research, learn and implement new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis. An undergraduate degree in a related field from an accredited institution. Technical skills and experience highly encouraged, but not required. IRL participation required (covid conditions permitting)

Applications available April 18, 2021 

Apply: https://graduateschool.stonybrook.edu/apply/

Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until May 10, 2021 

Future History Studio

The Future History Studio (FHS) is a new laboratory for emerging modes of arts-centered research, production, and presentation. It is an exploratory hub for those interested in hybrid inquiry and developing practice-based research at the intersections of art, technology, race, storytelling, and social justice.  

The FHS experiments with art at the intersection of emerging technologies.  Specific research areas include, but are not limited to artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics, and bio-art inclusive of computer vision, data equity, community agreement, governance, and care.  Emphasis is on art and knowledge production exploring concepts, questions, and intuitions through free study, practice, craft, tinkering, and collaboration with the aim of combating techno supremacy by modeling and alternative methodologies with the potential for tangible social impact.

FHS is part of The Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, & Optimism (DISCO) network.  Initiated in April 2021 with the generous support of the  Mellon Foundation, DISCO envisions a new anti-racist, anti-ableist digital future through a speculative, experimental, nuanced, and critical lens to be investigated with a variety of approaches at labs on five leading public research universities.  The DISCO network consists of professor Lisa Nakamura and associate professor Remi Yergeau, University of Michigan;  André Brock, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rayvon Fouché, Purdue University; Catherine Knight Steele, the University of Maryland; and Stephanie Dinkins, Stony Brook University. 

Masters of Fine Arts (MFA)

The MFA in Studio Art is a three-year, critically engaged, creative practice program that fosters interdisciplinary study in the visual arts. The curriculum offers the opportunity to engage in intensive artistic research, interacting with artist peers and scholars in the department and across campus. Supported by a vibrant research community, renowned faculty, and private art studios, our MFA candidates are well supported in the meaningful exploration of their research interests and deepening of their art practices.

Through this opportunity, support is offered for 3 years of study on-campus study resulting in an MFA and $20,000 per year stipend. As a selective program in a large, public institution, we offer graduate training with all the benefits and resources of a major research university. As a small art department, we offer students the opportunity to create individualized paths of study. Like all of our students,  the student-research fellow will have access to courses from across the SBU campus including a variety of programs in the humanities, philosophy, computer science, engineering,  and so on.

Our combined Studio Art and Art History faculty are internationally renowned scholars, curators, and teachers. The student-fellow will have the opportunity to work with and be mentored by artist and professor Stephanie Dinkins and work with current faculty which include: Izumi Ashizawa, Shimon Attie, Brooke Belisle, Isak Berbic, Toby Buonagurio, Barbara E. Frank, Shoki Goodarzi, Helen A. Harrison,Sohl Lee, Martin Levine, Karen Levitov, Karen Lloyd, John Lutterbie, Nobuho Nagasawa, Zabet Patterson, Howardena Pindell, Jason Paradis, Lorena Salcedo-Watson, Margaret Schedel, Maya Schindler, Katy Siegel, Andrew V. Uroskie, Lorraine Walsh.

Art Department facilities include private studios for MFA candidates, the Lawrence Alloway Gallery dedicated to MFA use,  collaborative media workshops, a large sculpture shop, printshop, maker space and the flagship Zuccaire Art Gallery.

To be considered applications must be received by May 10, 2021, at 11:59 EST. 

Related Links:

Stony Brook Department of Art 

Other Graduate Programs at Stony Brook https://grad.stonybrook.edu/academics/academic_programs.php

Apply: https://graduateschool.stonybrook.edu/apply/

For more information about FHS & DISCO, contact: stephanie.dinkins@stonybrook.edu