MFA Open Studios @ Brooklyn College and Parsons

November 9, 2012 4:59 pm

Check out Brooklyn College MFA Open Studios this weekend. Twenty-nine MFA candidates, working in diverse media, will be available to field questions about their work and discuss the creative
process. While there, make sure to stop and check out paintings by Two Coats interns Nick Stolle and Sam Jablon.

Sam Jablon

Nick Stolle

ALSO: Parsons MFA Open Studios are Thursday, November 15, 6-9 pm. An international group of 42 MFA students will be eager to talk about their work in process.

MFA studios at Parsons. Photo: Maricruz
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Image info:

Grace Hartigan’s Things, 2023
Crocs shoes, paint stick, pillow, steel
antique chair, steel
35 x 45 x35 inches

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Rachel Harrison, Sculpture with Boots, 2017
wood, polystyrene, chicken wire, cardboard, burlap, cement, acrylic, steel, and pigmented inkjet print
93 x 60 x 46 inches (236 x 152 x 116 cm)
© Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison, Sculpture with Boots (detail)

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Images are tagged. Sorry I didn’t take more!

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