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Studio visit with Tiago Carneiro da Cunha

Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of his stock characters the appear and reappear in his work. This version, a clay figure, is about 2 feet tall, [...]

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Who are you? a wary Laylah Ali asks at UArts

Laylah Ali, untitled, 2005, gouache on paper paintings, all images here provided by Ali
Layla Ali gave a talk a couple of weeks ago, part of the University of the Arts Food for Thought lecture series organized by the Summer MFA program. I’ve been thinking it over for this long because she’s a bit elusive.
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Sit up straight, stop frowning

Birch Bark Ass, by Matt Fisher
A show of paintings and drawings of modest size at UArts Gallery 817 (upstairs from Rosenwald-Wolf) is definitely worth attention. The show called “Posture and Expression” was curated by artist Rob Matthews.
The title lets you know right off the bat that the show has some lessons to teach; it also [...]

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