SVA MFA Art Practice presents Brainard Carey. 

Brainard Carey is a New York City and New Haven based conceptual artist and author. Praxis, his collaborative with his wife, Delia Carey, has been included in the Whitney Biennial, Slovenian Biennial and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. His educational business, Praxis Center for Aesthetics, helps artists to write grants, exhibit, and advance their careers. He also interviews artists, curators, writers and architects for his ongoing Yale University radio series, The Lives of the Artists, Architects, Curators and more.

SVA MFA Art Practice presents John Cohen. 

John Cohen is a musician, musicologist, photographer and filmmaker. His steadfast campaign for the recognition of traditional roots/folk music has led to the production of fifteen films, hundreds of photographs, and numerous sound recordings. He has also released more than twenty albums with the New Lost City Ramblers, published eight photo books with Steidl, and is the author of countless articles, liner notes, and interviews. From the late 1950s he was involved with the emerging art world in NYC, photographing Robert Frank’s production of Pull My Daisy (1959), and documenting the emergence of Pop Art and the heyday of Cedar Bar, the central hangout of the Abstract Expressionist painters. 

SVA Art Practice present The Artist as Activist, a panel discussion with Ben Davis, William Powhida, Shaun Leonardo and Daniel Tucker. 

Ben Davis is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class. He is currently National Art Critic for artnet News, and was formerly executive editor of Artinfo.com. His writings have appeared in Adbusters, The Brooklyn Rail, e-Flux Journal, Frieze, New York, The New York Times, Slate.com, The Village Voice, and many other venues. 

William Powhida is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work critiques the contemporary art world. He is also a founding mem-ber of Placeholder, a group working towards establishing long-term, rent stabilized studios in New York. Currently he is represented in New York by Postmasters Gallery, in Seattle by Platform Gallery, in Los Angeles by Charlie James Gallery, and in Copenhagen by Gallery Poulsen. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum and the Orange County Museum of Art. 

Shaun Leonardo is a Brooklyn-based artist from Queens, New York City. He uses modes of self-portraiture as a means to convey the complexities of masculine identity and question preconceived notions of manhood. His work has been presented in galleries and institutions, nationally and internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and 8th Floor Gallery. Leonardo’s current collaborative work Mirror / Echo / Tilt is funded by Creative Capital. 

Daniel Tucker works as an artist, writer and organizer developing documentaries, publications, exhibitions and events inspired by his interest in social movements and the people and places from which they emerge. His writings and lectures on the intersections of art and politics and his collaborative art projects have been published and presented widely.

Holland Cotter is an art critic for the NY Times. In 2009 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In its citation, the Pulitzer committee said it was honoring Mr. Cotter, who has been a sta critic at The Times since 1998, for “his wide ranging reviews of art, from Manhattan to China, marked by acute observation, luminous writing and dramatic storytelling.” 

Chrissie Iles (2016) 

Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her exhibitions include co-curating the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials, and curating major survey exhibitions of Marina Abramovic, Dan Graham, Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Yoko Ono, as well as exhibitions of Paul McCarthy, James Lee Byars, Jack Goldstein, and several group exhibitions including Signs of the Times: Film, Video and Slide Installation and Britain in the 1980s, Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art, and Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977. 

The School of Visual Arts MFA Art Practice program presents a panel discussion with artists whose work in some way deals with alternative economic systems. Panelists include:

Arlen Austin and Jason Boughton (H.E.N.S.)
Jen Abrams
Meredith Degyansky

Moderated by Ben Davis

Summer 2014

Chrissie Iles (2014) 

Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her exhibitions include co-curating the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennials, and curating major survey exhibitions of Marina Abramovic, Dan Graham, Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Yoko Ono, as well as exhibitions of Paul McCarthy, James Lee Byars, Jack Goldstein, and several group exhibitions including Signs of the Times: Film, Video and Slide Installation and Britain in the 1980s, Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art, and Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977.