April 4, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Hear what it was like to visit the Barnes Foundation in its original home in Merion, PA. Author, educator, and scholar Jay Raymond, who studied with Dr. Barnes' intellectual partner Violet Di Mazia, will share the aesthetic theory, vision, and practice that formed the distinctive content and composition of the Barnes collection.
Virtual lecture April 18 4-5:30
This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Art and Art History departments and the Visual Studies program, with support from Temple University's General Activities Fund.
Photo: Barnes Foundation, courtesy of the Barnes Foundation
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March 22, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Visual Studies alumna Alison Evans (BA ‘21) was recognized with an Honorable Mention from Honoring the Future’s Fellowship and Award Program for Emerging Craft Artists Advancing Sustainability. Thanks to the organization, “craft students across the nation are rising to the challenge of climate change, using their powerful visual voices to offer hope and inspiration for achieving a sustainable future.” Evans’ project, Water Works, explored the relationship between Philadelphia’s waterways and various levels of pollution.
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January 26, 2022
Author: Wanda Motley Odom
Tyler alumnus Shwarga Bhattacharjee (MFA ‘18) has always let lived experience be his muse. His large, lushly layered abstract paintings and collage evoke his cultural background and identity as South Asian as well as the history of his home country, Bangladesh. Concealed within his use of vivid colors, contorted forms, bold and delicate textures, and broad gestural strokes are references to his Hindu religion and mythological stories, national symbols, verdant geographies, star-packed constellations, demons and goddesses, and the ravages of British colonial rule in India.
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January 25, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture remembers influential alumni Moe Brooker (BFA ‘70, MFA ‘72), who passed away on January 9, 2022. A notable abstract painter with strong Philadelphia roots, Brooker was best known for his joyous interpretation of African American life on canvas.
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November 9, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
Prominent Tyler alumnus Louise Fishman (BFA & BS '63) was a figurehead in the world of American Abstract Expressionist painting, but she did not arrive at such stature without struggle.
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November 2, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
This fall, the Whitney Museum presents Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing, the first major solo museum exhibition in New York for Tyler alumna Jennifer Packer (BFA '07). Coming to the Whitney from London's Serpentine Gallery, the exhibit is the largest survey of Packer's work to date, featuring over 30 drawings and paintings from the last decade that examine practices of observation, memory, and improvisation. The show's title is in reference to the biblical verse Ecclesiastes 1:8.
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