CLASS NOTES

David Berezovsky ChE'13

David Berezovsky ChE'13 married Sivanna Shusterman on August 13, 2023 in Closter, NJ. The happy couple celebrated with Cooper Union alumni Anna Brook BSE'04 (sister of the groom), Leo Grinberg ChE'97 (cousin of the groom), Peter Liu ChE'13, Polina Canepa ME'14, and Charles Canepa CE'11 / MCE'13.

Abraham Cruz A'00, Raul Castro-Cerrata A'00, and Anita Ragusa A'04

Cooper Union School of Art alumni Abraham Cruz (2000), Raul Castro-Cerrato (2000), and Anita Ragusa (2004) are featured in an upcoming exhibition titled EXQUISITE CORPSE. Curated by Abraham Cruz, Exquisite Corpse is a group collaboration by artists who reside in the Hudson Valley and NYC. The exhibit follows the journey of seven artists/collaborators with one rooted seed – queer culture: past, present, and future. In this exhibit, the artist will present their journey as members of the queer community and the visual representation of a collaborative journey through the game Exquisite Corpse.

Gwenn Thomas A'68

Gwenn Thomas A'68 is a participant in the "Unbound: Performance as Rupture" exhibit at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Berlin, Germany.  The exhibit opened on September 13, 2023 and runs through July 28, 2024.

The group exhibition UNBOUND: PERFORMANCE AS RUPTURE examines how different generations of artists have called upon the body in relation to the camera to refuse oppressive ideologies, disrupt historical narratives, and unsettle concepts of identity. Setting works from the Julia Stoschek Collection in dialogue with loans, the exhibition traces various intersections of performance and video art from the late 1960s to today, focusing on how they create specific forms of rupture, fracture, and pause.

Address:
JSF Berlin
Leipziger Straße 60 (entrance: Jerusalemer Straße)
10117 Berlin
Germany
T. +49.30.921.062.461
visit.berlin@jsfoundation.art

Joseph Burchfield A'68

Joseph Burchfield A'68 is participating in this year's Gowanus Open Studios 2023 event:

Everyone is invited to join us in Brooklyn for the annual Gowanus Open Studios 2023. Our lively community wide event is a celebration of creative expression and talent. Mark your calendars for two days filled with inspiration and imagination on the weekend of October 21 & 22, 12-6pm. For more information, visit our website at https://www.artsgowanus.org/ to see the artist directory of their participating profiles and a map of studio locations to help plan your tour.

The studio location for Joseph Burchfield A'68 for this event is 543 Union Street - Studio 4B, Brooklyn, NY 11215.

https://www.artsgowanus.org/

 

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