MFA's showcase 2024 painting and printmaking theses
The Yale Painting/Printmaking MFA theses were showcased in an exhibit titled, “And the forms which linger / humming in our ears.”
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The Yale Painting/Printmaking MFA theses were showcased in an exhibit titled, “And the forms which linger / humming in our ears.”
Gene Beery, whose irreverent text-based paintings presaged the work of Conceptualists such as John Baldessari and Lawrence Weiner, died on November 19 at the age of eighty-six.
“PULSE, PULSE, PULSE, PULSE, hold, and pause,” a voice-over evenly calls out as monochrome footage rapidly intercuts between a black woman alone on a stretch of grass—arms out and angular, the top of her body pulling toward the ground and her legs partially bent—and stick-figure notations of her dance. Minutes later, a clip of women swirling the voluminous white clothes tied at their waists unfolds, instead, at a mesmerizing and unsettling molasses pace. This archival footage is punctuated with intertitles: “What happened when you looked down the lens? Or did they tell you not to?”...
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