Curated by Dejá Belardo, this two-part exhibition at Pratt Fantastic Arts’ new MFA amenities at Dock 72 within the Brooklyn Navy Yard options the work of graduating MFA artists throughout disciplines, together with portray and drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and built-in practices.
MFA Thesis Exhibition Half 1: Entry Denied (March 31–April 11)
Opening Monday, March 31, 6–8pm (EDT) Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 12–6pm Register to go to
Exhibiting Artists: Yilin Chen, Yeonji Chung, kate evans, Eric Geithner, Eliza Gooding, Claire Heidinger, Jay, Yeon Jeong, William Kim, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu, Isabelle Friedrich McTwigan, Molly Miller, Alice Shi Minghui, Siha Park, Ok Rawald, Yedda Ye, Ayoung Yoo, and Wei Yuan
Entry Denied explores the a number of dimensions of opacity and entry — each bodily and conceptual — as artists navigate the fragile stability between revelation and concealment. Inside this choice, works change into vessels of hidden that means, coded language, and emotional depth, inviting the viewer to decipher, query, or settle for what’s withheld.
What occurs when information is fragmented, when feelings are encrypted, or when entry is restricted? The artists on this exhibition remind us that that means isn’t all the time given freely; typically, it have to be sought, negotiated, or just left within the realm of the unknown.
– Dejá Belardo
MFA Studio at Dock 72MFA Thesis Exhibition Half 2: Inside/Out (April 28–Could 9)
Opening Monday, April 28, 6–8pm (EDT)Gallery Hours: Monday by way of Friday, 12–6pm Register to go to
Exhibiting Artists: Zakariya Abdul-Qadir, Dana-Marie Bullock, Monique Kevita Edwards, Danielle Gadus, Tony Griego, Herok, Rob Hill Artwork, HYUN, Ariadne Manuel, Shivani Mithbaokar, Yerang Moon, Mouet, Morgan Petitpas, Agnes Questionmark, Greta Schneider, Avery Schuster, and Leda Tsoutreli
Inside/Out brings collectively artists who problem current frameworks by way of acts of abstraction, materials intervention, conceptual gestures, and formal subversion. Right here, course of isn’t merely a method to an finish however a observe in itself — a vital device for questioning, documenting, and reinterpreting the constructions that form our understanding of artwork and the world round us.
Every artist navigates the strain between presence and absence, construction and instability, management and likelihood — finally revealing the unseen forces at play in each making and that means. In Inside/Out, the works emerge as an lively pressure of critique — reshaping, resisting, and reimagining the programs that they exist in.
– Dejá Belardo
Pratt Institute’s interdisciplinary MFA program in Fantastic Arts gives superior schooling for artists supported by a distinguished school, distinctive amenities, and a supportive neighborhood of friends. School and college students construct shut relationships by way of structured studio visits, seminars, and casual conversations. The rigorous and versatile curriculum provides extensive latitude for exploration whereas fostering vital views and a deeper understanding of the histories, points, cultural, and transdisciplinary contexts that inform artwork practices at this time.
The exhibition is a part of Pratt Exhibits 2025. Representing years of analysis, exploration, vital considering, inventive inquiry, problem-solving, development, manufacturing, observe, and accomplishment, the reveals have fun pupil work main as much as Graduation. Pratt Exhibits additionally characteristic work in structure, design, data, and liberal arts and sciences.
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