This fall, Pratt in Venice alumni and faculty have been busy making and exhibiting work. Here’s a cross-section of what’s on!
Fay Ku, Argus, 2021. Graphite, watercolor on Bhutan handmade paper, 23.5 x 32 in. (courtesy of the artist).
Fay Ku, See For The Trees, 2021. Graphite, watercolor, cut paper and glue on Bhutan handmade paper, 23.5 x 32 in. (courtesy of the artist).
FAY KU
The Eyes Have It
Lehman College Art Gallery
250 Bedford Park Blvd
West Bronx, NY 10468
August 31–November 13, 2021
Pratt in Venice Professor of Drawing & Printmaking Fay Ku’s drawings See for the Trees and Argus are featured in the group exhibition, The Eyes Have It, at the Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY. The show is open through November 13, 2021, curated by Bartholomew F. Bland and Laura J.A. DeRiggi.
XINGZE LI (PIV ‘18)
Facts of Light
Xingze Li, Robert(a) Marshall, J Pasila, Ethan Ryman, Elisa Sighicelli, Gwenn Thomas
Guest curator: Robert(a) Marshall
Cathouse Proper @ 524 Projects
524 Court St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Opens Saturday, November 13, 2021, 2–7pm
Pratt in Venice alumnus Xingze Li (PiV ‘18) is exhibiting work in the group exhibition, Facts of Light, at Cathouse Proper in Brooklyn, New York.
Xingze Li is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brooklyn. He has exhibited and curated in China, America, and Denmark. He has had solo and two-person exhibitions in New York City at venues including Dekalb Gallery, Tutu Gallery, and Hunter East Harlem Gallery. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at the Pratt Institute Manhattan Library and cfcp gallery in New York City, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, and Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon in Copenhagen. He has curated shows including Small Root (2018), and F-1: Out Inside (2019) in Brooklyn, NY. Notable awards include the 77ART Residency, Pratt Graduate Student Engagement Fund, Cope NYC Residency, and Pratt in Venice Scholarship. Li earned his bachelor's degree in 2015 from Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts and received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2019.
Susan & Gerald Luss (PiV ‘11) at Straight Forward, Image Driven, 2021.
SUSAN LUSS (PiV ‘11)
Straight Forward, Image Driven
Curated by Izzy Nova
The Painting Center
547 W 27th St, Suite 500
New York, NY 10001
October 5–30, 2021
Pratt in Venice alumna Susan Luss (PiV ‘11) exhibited work in a group exhibition, Straight Forward, Image Driven, at the Painting Center from October 7–31, 2021. The show was curated by Izzy Nova, and featured work by Beth Barry, Melody S. Boone, Nancy Elsamanoudi, Susan Luss, and Shira Toren. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition and catalogue were supported by the Caroline M. Lowndes Foundation.
Adèle Rossetti Morosini, Art Installation Proposal for Sugar Loaf, 2016. Illustrated instillation proposal, Fulbright U.S. scholar to Brazil (image courtesy of the artist).
ADELÈ ROSETTI MOROSINI (PIV ‘92–’94)
Adelè Rossetti (PiV ‘92–‘94) is exhibiting a proposal poster for an environmental art installation in Rio at the Fulbright 75 Virtual Art Exhibition. She was the 2016 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Brazil.
Adele Rossetti Morosini's proposal for an art installation visualizes what the bloom of the endemic and endangered Cattleya lobata orchids may look like if they were reintroduced to Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sugar Loaf Mountain, part of its natural habitat. The biodegradable pink tissue paper and flour glue markers, made by school children and installed by climbing club members, represent the flowers by their color and location, advocating for their reintroduction.
The Fulbright 75 Exhibition is celebrating 75 years of the Fulbright Program’s impact in the arts.
Adelè is an artist and art instructor working in the NYC area and the Hudson Valley. She is also a lecturer, published art and scientific illustrator, private art tutor, and exhibiting artist. She has a MFA degree in Painting/Drawing and a MS in the Theory, Criticism and History of Art, Design and Architecture from Pratt Institute. She is a fellow of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society, and a recipient of the American Society of Botanical Artists’ Excellence Award, the Royal Horticultural Society’s Grenfells Science Medal, and several Mellon Foundation, Cantor-Fitzgerald Foundation, Fulbright, and Pratt Institute grants. Her artwork is found in numerous collections in the US and abroad, including the Alisa and Isaac Sutton Collection, the most important American private collection of Botanical Art, and that of Natasha Trethewey, the U.S. Poet Laureate. Adele is presently teaching at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the New York Botanical Gardens, and has an online class on Craftsy.
Mario Naves, Forgive the Morning, 2019. Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas, 16 in. in diameter (Courtesy of Elizabeth Harris Gallery)
MARIO NAVES
MAGIC
Metaphor Projects
382 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
December 4, 2021–January 16, 2022
Pratt in Venice Professor of Painting Mario Naves is featuring work in a group exhibition, MAGIC, that opens at Metaphor Projects in Brooklyn on December 4. Metaphor Projects is an artist-run non-profit space for contemporary art and culture.
Maggie Simonelli, Pearl within the Pearl, 2021. Encaustic, crushed pearls, 16 kt. pale gold leaf, aluminum leaf, Japanese coral, oyster shells and Iwamomo (pink glass), pigments on birch panel, 36 x 36 x 1.25 in. (courtesy of the artist and Sara Nightingale Gallery).
Maggie Simonelli, Heart of Water, 2021. Encaustic, 22 kt gold leaf, metal leaf, eye shadow and pigments on birch panel, 36" x 36" x 1.25 in. (courtesy of the artist and Sara Nightingale Gallery).
MAGGIE SIMONELLI (PiV ‘93)
Scattered Pearls, Heart of Water
Sara Nightingale Gallery
26 Main St
Sag Harbor, NY 11963
October 15–November 27, 2021
Pratt in Venice alumna Maggie Simonelli (PiV ‘93) is currently exhibiting her show Scattered Pearls, Heart of Water at Sara Nightingale Gallery from October 15–November 27, 2021. Simonelli holds an undergraduate degree from Connecticut College and an MFA in Painting and MS in the History of Art & Design from Pratt Institute. She is currently a working artist residing in New York City, exhibiting in many American urban centers.
YIYI WANG (PiV ‘15)
An End Has A Start
Curated by Yiyao Tang
TheBLANC Gallery
15 E 40th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10016
October 9–25, 2021
Yiyi Wang (PiV ‘15) recently held her first solo exhibition at theBlanc Gallery in Manhattan, which was curated by Yiyao Tang and closed on October 25, 2021. Yiyi is a Beijing born New York City artist, interior designer, curator, and freelancer.
