January 29, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Joe Kopta (PhD student) will give a lecture "Chromatic Networks: Materiality and Materialism of Middle Byzantine Gospel Lectionaries (ca. 850–1204 CE)" at the Middle Atlantic Graduate Symposium in the History of Art, Saturday March 5, 2022 at 10 AM.
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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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January 19, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Edgar Heap of Birds (MFA ‘79) is set to exhibit new and older works in a solo show, Edgar Heap of Birds: Punctures, starting Friday, Jan. 21 at K Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. K Art Gallery is one of the few Native American-owned commercial art spaces. The show will feature mono prints and ghost prints, paintings from his Neuf series, and pieces from his celebrated Native Hosts series.
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January 19, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
This Spring, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture welcomes several distinguished artists and scholars to speak at the school and engage with students. These speakers represent a diverse range of practices, focusing on everything from Afrofuturistic architectural design, unconventional blending of visual art and sound, to abstract figure drawing and modernized Indo-Persian miniature painting styles.
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January 13, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Pepón Osorio, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Community Art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, was recently interviewed by artist and scholar Nicole Fleetwood in MoMA magazine. The two artists discuss MoMA’s acquisition of his installation, Badge of Honor, which explores the relationship between an incarcerated father and his teenage son left at home. Fleetwood curated a major exhibition, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, for MoMA that featured the works of artists in U.S. prisons and delved into similar themes as Osorio’s. The exhibition was open from September 2020-April 2021.
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January 13, 2022
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Pauwels will be presenting a virtual lecture, "José María Mora, Napoleon Sarony and the Migrant Surround in American Portrait Photography", Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 at 5 p.m. Registration is free, but required: https://npg.si.edu/greenberg-steinhauser-forum-american-portraiture
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January 12, 2022
Author: Emily Herbein
Tyler Professor in Painting Dona Nelson, having presented 20 solo shows over the span of her career, is best known and respected for her use of unorthodox materials, processes, and forms in her immersive and gestural paintings. Nelson has been a respected educator and mentor as well, and was honored with the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teaching of Art Award last year.
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December 13, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
Graduate students in Occupational Therapy Practice: Assistive Technology collaborated with Tyler faculty to build their final projects for the Adaptive Design Outreach Initiative, led by Cynthia Abbott-Gaffney, assistant professor of instruction in the Occupational Therapy Program in the College of Public Health’s Department of Rehabilitation Science. Abbott-Gaffney specializes in neuro, pediatric, and telehealth practices, all of which play a role in students’ understanding of the current scope of the Adaptive Design Outreach Initiative during a mid-pandemic semester.
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December 13, 2021
Author: Emily Herbein
Associate Professor of Practice Eric Oskey, RA, and his award-winning firm Moto Designshop have recently finished a commission for Saint Joseph’s University, Arrupe Hall. A Jesuit residence hall and place of worship, the intricate brickwork and modern façade are standouts along the campus’s Lapsley Lane.
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