Our Alumni Exhibited in SVA Flatiron Gallery This November!
Congratulations to Feifei Ruan ’15, G. Davis Cathcart ’21, and Eva Louise Hall ’20, whose works have been selected to participate in the exhibition, “Bold Outlines: Celebrating SVA’s Graduate Programs”!
“Bold Outlines” features works by alumni and students from more than a dozen of SVA’s graduate programs, curated by Daniela Marin Aristizábal (Independent curator and MA Curatorial Practice thesis student) and Lotte Marie Allen (MFA Computer Arts advisor and faculty). The exhibition will be on view Friday, November 8, through Wednesday, November 27, at the Flatiron Gallery, 133 West 21st Street, New York City. This show also celebrates the opening of the College’s new Graduate Center, a dedicated facility for all graduate students, staff, and faculty, where they can meet, congregate, and inspire one another’s respective practices.
“Bold Outlines” highlights the interconnectedness of various fields, including visual art, design, social practice, illustration, moving images, and more, underscoring the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in today’s artistic landscape. It invites viewers to explore the threads and throughlines that bind these disciplines, reflecting on how different artistic practices can complement and enhance one another.
Gifting Designs: Tiffany & Co.
Feifei Ruan ’15
Mixed media installation
Feifei Ruan’s gifting designs celebrate the iconic Tiffany & Co. through cross-cultural storytelling, crafted specially for Lunar New Year and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Each piece, in signature Tiffany Blue, embodies a story of tradition and modern luxury, merging the brand’s historic New York roots with the vibrant spirit of Asian festivals.
One Eight Hundred Ghosts
G. Davis Cathcart ’21
Graphic novel
One Eight Hundred Ghosts is a graphic novella published by Fantagraphics about time travel, astral projection, Michael Jackson, the New York City art world as it existed in the 1980’s and Telecommunication Towers. A team of socialite scenesters moonlight as astral-projecting, art-thieving, time-travelers based in 1980 and concoct a heist to steal… Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Using otherworldly technology to enter the future and repurpose the intellectual property of a popular yet evil artist in order to change its cultural trajectory, Cedric and his team realize that society will face a conundrum that only they can rectify: accept the work of a sonic genius despite any abusive behavior, or release the work themselves, stripping the artist of the pivotal success that would later enable horrible crimes. Ultimately, the team decides to save the decade’s defining cultural touchstone before it ever happens: Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Mira
Eva Louise Hall ’20
Video, 11:30 minutes
Eva Louise Hall is a professional, independent screenwriter and animator with over ten years of experience in commercial and fine art contexts. Her specialties as a filmmaker are stop-motion animation, experimental mixed-media, and surrealist horror. Her MFA Visual Narrative short, “Mira”, is an 11-minute surrealist horror film following the story of a struggling accordionist busker who gets more than she bargained for when her desire to get noticed attracts the attention of a mysterious and enticing competitor.
The film has won top awards at the 2023 SCAD Savannah Film Festival and the 2024 Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. Eva Louise was recently honored by Sony and Creo Arts with an invitation to Sony Pictures Studios this Spring as a finalist for the 2024 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards. In addition to the creation of her independent films she teaches as an Assistant Professor of Animation at the Kansas City Art Institute.
A big congratulations to our alumni who were also shortlisted for the exhibition:
A Field Guide to Paradise
Shenuka Corea ’24
Graphic Novel
Vidya is a botanist on a mission: to recover a rare sample from a distant forest planet. She struggles through a landscape that, though beautiful, seems to be trying to kill her. On top of that her equipment starts to malfunction and she can sense something she cannot see stalking her through the trees. Does this planet want her gone? As Vidya discovers what the planet truly wants from her, she starts to uncover a terrible truth about herself. But will she be able to acknowledge it? The story interrogates the pitfalls of seeking to understand the world with an objective and scientific lens, while ignoring our emotional and spiritual selves.
To Beloved
Diana Poon ’24
Visual Novel Game
To BeLoved is a psychological dating sim that shows you the importance of loving yourself before loving someone else. A fresh start in distractingly dazzling Applecore City is *just* what hopeless romantic Menmi needs to realize her dreams of meeting her other half! But the past is never far behind. When Menmi’s new beau shows signs of emotional peculiarities, Menmi must confront the one thing she came to the city to escape: her own feelings.
“Bold Outlines” is free and open to the public from November 8–27, 2024.
