Lea Cetera A'05

Chassis, an exhibition featuring sculptures by Lea Cetera A'05, was shown at the Phillida Reid Gallery in London, UK from September 2-October 1, 2022:

"We are proud to present Lea Cetera, Chassis, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery's new Grape Street location. Consisting of new and existing sculptural works incorporating found footage, kinetic machinery, steel cages and obsolete cables, Chassis stirs up a vortex of overlapping concerns: the dissection and manipulation of human and animal bodies; the distance between resistance and complicity; the consumption of images under capitalism; escape routes; and rainbow lobsters."

To read more about the exhibition, please click here.

The Brooklyn Rail's September 2022 Issue

Adriana Farmiga A'96 is the guest critic for The Brooklyn Rail's September 2022 issue. Farmiga has included the following alumni as contributors to this month's issue: David Brooks A'00, Christian Hincapié A'13, Louis Osmosis A'18 and Sam Vernon A'09. To read the Editor's Message, On Flux, as well as the rest of the issue, please click here.

Doug Ashford A'81

Doug Ashford A'81 was interviewed in October 2021 by Owen Duffy for Art & Education's School Watch feature for an article "The Past Is Never Over: Cooper Union, Reuben Kadish, and the Education of Artists - Doug Ashford and Owen Duffy" which came out in December 2021.

Anders Abraham AR'91

16-8: Various Things of Different Sizes–A Grid of (no) Ideas by Anders Abraham AR'91 is drawn from At the Intersection of Ideas and Material Conditions, a Third Floor Hallway Gallery exhibition showcasing work by architects, researchers, and teachers at the Royal Danish Academy. The exhibition, which ran from September 5-25, 2022, is part of an ongoing dialogue between faculty and students of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture and the Institute of Architecture and Culture at the Royal Danish Academy.

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