Faculty News

  • Genesis Baez, Visiting Lecturer in Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Sun, the debut monograph from Genesis Báez spanning a decade of photographic work, offers a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship and the Puerto Rican diaspora through studied images of the elemental and generational.

Raised in New England and Puerto Rico, Báez’s work is enmeshed in the geographies of both, while remaining in the currents between. Images spiral outward from the intersecting social and environmental conditions shaped by colonization in Puerto Rico, and subsequent mass migration, of which Báez is a descendent. Here, Báez oscillates in the reverberations of displacement and the continual act of place-making.

Blue Sun beams with the sensory: sound, tactility, heat hitting cold. Photographs rustle with movement, drafts of one world moving through another. Báez’s practice is an invocation of the fragmentary — temporal and spatial — through which the camera and its mirrored eye reflect and translate a surfacing congruence.  From this fluxing space, Báez captures imprints of the absent and hidden in transitory moments of focus.

Genesis Báez is based in Brooklyn, NY.  She holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University, a BFA in Photography with honors from MassArt, and is an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Blue Sun includes essays by Hilda Lloréns and Elle Pérez, in English and Spanish with translations by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa. Designed by Studio Lin.

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  • Murad Khan Mumtaz, Associate Professor of Art

Currently, Murad has works in a show at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, including a short film.

The first ever survey of Pakistani art, “MANZAR: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today,” just went up at the Qatar Museums where he also has some work and a contributing chapter for the catalogue.

Murad has a painting series that he worked on during the summer on display in Delhi at OJAS gallery in a show called “Musawwari : Miniatures Today.”

 

  • Ohan Breiding, Assistant Professor of Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Launch
Saturday, November 16th from 4-5pm
OCHI Gallery – 3301 W Washington Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA
Featuring readings by Jess Arndt, Cauleen Smith, Jeanne Vaccaro, Alena Williams, and myself, moderated by Nicole Killian.

The book includes contributions by Jess Arndt, Jules Gimbrone, Cleo Wölfle Hazard, Svetlana Kitto, Astrida Neimanis, Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen, Cauleen Smith, Susan Stryker, Jeanne Vaccaro, and Alena Williams. It is designed by Nicole Killian and published by Nico Fontana Press. Books will be available for purchase.

Promiscuous Ghost
Following the book launch, please stay for the opening of my solo exhibition with OCHI Gallery, Promiscuous Ghost, from 5-7pm.
The exhibition includes a sculptural video installation, photography and drawings, as well as a song in collaboration with Dorian Wood.
The exhibition will be open until December 21, 2024.

Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean (Getty PST)
On view until January 19, 2025
Oceanside Museum – 704 Pier View Wy, Oceanside, CA 92054

I am presenting the photographic and video installation, Souvenir (co-directed with Shoghig Halajian), in the exhibition, Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean, curated by Cassandra Coblentz with assistant curators Aaron Katzeman and Ziying Duan. To learn more about the exhibition, visit OMA’s website here. Souvenir is made in collaboration with editor Katrin Ebersohn and sound designer Sindhu Thirumalaisamy.

Mix Fest Screening and Q&A
Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 9pm
Purchase tickets here.

I am premiering Belly of a Glacier at the opening night of MIX FEST, the longest running queer film festival in NYC, and will be in great company with Alexis Kyle Mitchell, Amina Ross, Sharlene Bamboat, P Staff, and others. Belly of a Glacier is made in collaboration with editor Katrin Ebersohn, sound designer and musician Richy Carey, cinematographers Sara Kinney and Cary Cronenwett, and producer Alexis Hudgins.

Belly of a Glacier: A Conversation about Art and Ecological Care
December 3, 2024 at 4:30pm
Oakley Center at Williams College, MA
RSVP here.

 

  • Mike Glier, Alexander Falck Class of 1899 Professor of Art, Emeritus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Mari Rodriguez Binnie, Associate Professor of Art 

The Sao Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Pallavi Sen, Assistant Professor of Art

Last year I designed a tall fence with a doorway to keep deer out of my garden up on a hill. I wanted vines to be able to climb the fence, for the garden to be visible even when the gate was closed, and for small creatures to be able to go in and out. I also wanted small children to be entertained by it, so parts of the gate became an abacus, or at least shapes that you can turn and flip and move side to side. This fence is a sister to that one. It’s not really a fence except whatever a fence is inside a hardware store or a carpenter’s workshop, before it can corral anything. Maybe it’s more like a stage and more like a big calculator and a perch and sections of a state highway with a concentration of road signs, blazing in headlights. A meaningful part of making this fence (or abacus or gate or stage or trellis) was working with Lucia Thomé as she built the entire structure over a weekend and the time we could share while doing so. So it is also a good clock and a beginning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barrier brings together work from 12 artists based in Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey that both critiques and reimagines barrier infrastructures designed to separate or enclose, such as gates, fences, windows, and walls. Through mixed media approaches, including sculpture, installation, video, painting, and works on paper, the featured selections engage themes of property and public space, geopolitical volatility, ecology and the built world, materiality, memory, and diaspora. The artworks on view posit barriers as porous portals, evoking Angela Davis’s transformative abolitionist vision that “walls turned sideways are bridges.”

Barrier is curated by Kaitlin Pomerantz and Lucia Thomé. It features work by Sandra SK Amoabeng, Matthew Colaizzo, Ghida Dalloul, FORTUNE, Rami George, David L. Johnson, Naomieh Jovin, Zach Ozma, Pallavi Sen, Ivanco Talevski, Kristen Neville Taylor, and Levester Williams.