The Hand of the Artist
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents 鈥淭he Hand of the Artist,鈥� an exhibition of thesis work by the MFA Fine Arts class of 2023, curated by SVA faculty member, curator and writer Sara Raza.
Poetically exploring the artist鈥檚 hand as a conceptual and critical tool, this exhibition weaves together drawing, installation, painting, sculpture and video. It addresses interconnected themes of rebellion, recreation, recollection, reconstruction and repair. Taking a decentralized approach, 鈥淭he Hand of the Artist鈥� features the works of 38 intergenerational artists whose practices unite local, global and digital viewpoints from a fast-evolving and complex world.
A number of artists celebrate creative rebellion as an overt or covert strategy for and against tradition in art and society. Katinka Huang's drawings explore the relationship between the clinical and the critical, centering on the female figure as both a fantasy and an oddity in art and science. Deeya Bhugra's large-scale canvases explore non-objective and non-representational painting. Simon Cooper's painted scenes of jubilant social gatherings allude to community and nod towards classical, medieval and modernist painterly traditions that combine the figurative and the abstract.
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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents 鈥淭he Hand of the Artist,鈥� an exhibition of thesis work by the MFA Fine Arts class of 2023, curated by SVA faculty member, curator and writer Sara Raza.
Poetically exploring the artist鈥檚 hand as a conceptual and critical tool, this exhibition weaves together drawing, installation, painting, sculpture and video. It addresses interconnected themes of rebellion, recreation, recollection, reconstruction and repair. Taking a decentralized approach, 鈥淭he Hand of the Artist鈥� features the works of 38 intergenerational artists whose practices unite local, global and digital viewpoints from a fast-evolving and complex world.
A number of artists celebrate creative rebellion as an overt or covert strategy for and against tradition in art and society. Katinka Huang's drawings explore the relationship between the clinical and the critical, centering on the female figure as both a fantasy and an oddity in art and science. Deeya Bhugra's large-scale canvases explore non-objective and non-representational painting. Simon Cooper's painted scenes of jubilant social gatherings allude to community and nod towards classical, medieval and modernist painterly traditions that combine the figurative and the abstract.
Artists on show
- Anoushka Bhalla
- Bona V
- Camila Varon Jaramillo
- Capucine Bourcart
- Chukwuemeka Chukwu
- Davina Hsu
- Deeya Bhugra
- Fernando Monroy
- Helia Chitsazan
- Hwichan Ko
- Insook Park
- James Jaxxa
- Ji Woo Kim
- Jingyao Huang
- Kaiqing Yu
- Katinka Huang
- Lanyi Gao
- Lu Xia
- M Sawyer Ballance
- Nianxin Li
- Pei Ou
- Polin Huang
- Rosie Kim
- Sangho Han
- Silvia Muleo
- Simon Cooper
- Sora Xu
- Sunghyuk Kwon
- Taylor Bernstein
- Tianshu Zhang
- Tom Hecht
- Yanmei Jiang
- Yin Ming Wong
- Yingyao Liang
- Yissho Oh
- Yuli Aloni Primor
- Zhiheng Guo
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