Otis Fine Arts

Otis College BFA Fine Arts Seniors, Suhey Elias, Tristyn Huggins, Chloe Kiedaisch, Sophia Kokkali, Sam Meza, and Nagisa Mizushima invite you to their group exhibition, Synthetic Presence, in the Bolsky Gallery on view through October 15, 2021.

About the exhibition:

Born in Montréal in 1967, David Hartt lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

Hartt creates work that unpacks the social, cultural, and economic complexities of his various subjects. He explores how historic ideas and ideals persist or transform over time.

Candida Alvarez (b. 1955 in Brooklyn, NY) received her B.F.A. from Fordham University and her M.F.A. from Yale School of Art. 

Alvarez is widely regarded as one of the most highly innovative and experiemental painters of her generation.  She grew up in New York City and moved to Chicago in the late 1990s. Since establishing herself as an artist in the 1980s, Alvarez has expanded on a conceptually rich, intuitive process of building abstract paintings. Alvarez’s breadth of practice incorporates drawings, photography, and printmaking.

Zen Sekizawa has been working as a photographer, director, and artist for over two decades in her hometown of Los Angeles, CA. She is second-generation Angeleno and fourth-generation Japanese-American. Her childhood was spent at The Atomic Cafe, a Los Angeles punk rock institution, owned and operated for over four decades by her family in Little Tokyo. Raised in and surrounded by creativity, chaos, music, dark humor, and the inclusivity of the cafe, she has formed a surreal, funny, and beautifully subversive aesthetic that is all her own.

Dean Sameshima is a Berlin-based, American artist whose work explores the history of gay male histories, subcultures, and pleasure through the lens of documentary photography, painting, video, and installation and is currently in a group show at O-Town House, Los Angeles, titled "Pathologically Social," organized by Mark Verabioff.

In Iris Hu's Fine Arts course, Fibrous Kinship, Gloria Galvez will discuss the current focus of her research for her upcoming film Green Revolution and adjacent works of art. Presented in a poetic format, the research will explore plants as a medium for anti-capitalism and the various ways, via direct action and convening, that one can build solidarity with them, while subsequently taking moments throughout the presentation to acknowledge the intimate presence of insects on plants. 

This event is open to the Otis Community (students, alumni, faculty, staff). 

In Iris Hu's Fine Arts course, Fibrous Kinship, Sonia Louise Davis will discuss her recent works and read from her forthcoming publication, slow and soft and righteous, improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one).

This event is open to the Otis Community (students, alumni, faculty, staff). 

Link to lecture via zoom: https://otis.zoom.us/j/7971711568

Otis Fine Arts seniors Camila Caceres, Scout Parkerson, TIffany Gutierrez, Moon Hernandez, Lindsay Stollman, Sydney Busic and Gena Smith invite you to a drive-through-style screening of Bloom Where Your’e Planted, the artists’ exhibition taking place in the Bolsky Gallery in the Galef Building on Otis’s campus.  The screening will be held in the parking lot of the Westchester Public Library at 6:15 p.m. and will include live artist interviews with a Halloween theme.