Class of 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition

April 28 - May 19, 2014
Curated by Ruba Katrib
Presented in Association with the Fisher Landau Center for Art
The Lauder Foundation/Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Opening Reception:
Sunday, April 27, 2014, 2–5 pm

More information on students in the MFA-Visual Arts program is available here.

Venue
Fisher Landau Center For Art
38-27 30th Street
Long Island City
New York

Gallery Hours
Thurs–Mon, 12–5 pm

Funding for the 2014 Thesis Exhibition is provided by Emily Fisher Landau, The Lauder Foundation/Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

About the Curator

Ruba Katrib is Curator at SculptureCenter in Long Island City, New York, and was previously Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions with David Douard, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, and Jumana Manna, as well as the group exhibitions, A Disagreeable Object (2012), on the legacy of surrealism, the body, and technology in contemporary art with Anicka Yi, Pamela Rosenkranz, Camille Henrot, Sarah Lucas, and others, and Better Homes (2013), which addressed domesticity in contemporary art with Anthea Hamilton, Josephine Pryde, Martha Rosler, Carissa Rodriguez, Neil Beloufa, and others. Katrib organized the first comprehensive solo museum exhibitions of Cory Arcangel (2010) and Claire Fontaine (2010). Her writing has appeared in several periodicals including Artforum, Kaleidoscope, cura., and Mousse Magazine. Recent publications include New Methods (MOCA, 2013), on independent artist initiatives throughout Latin America, and Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture – Where is Production? (co-editor) published by SculptureCenter and Black Dog Publishing London, 2013.

Presenting Artists

About the Fisher Landau Center for Art

Housed in a former parachute harness factory, the 25,000 square foot museum was designed by Max Gordon in association with Bill Katz and is devoted to the exhibition and study of the contemporary art collection of Emily Fisher Landau. The core of the 1,500 work collection spans 1960 to the present and contains key works by artists who have shaped the most significant art of the last 50 years, including Richard Artschwager, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Mark Tansey, and Cy Twombly.

Emily Fisher Landau's insightful selection of works by contemporary masters, many of which she bought from the artists early in their careers, is reflected in exhibitions presented at the Fisher Landau Center for Art. 

Supporters of the 2014 Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition

Funding for the 2014 Thesis Exhibition is provided by Emily Fisher Landau and The Lauder Foundation—Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund.

Columbia University School of the Arts is supported in part by contributions from alumni and friends of the arts. These gifts provide student fellowships, educational programming and awards. For more information or to make a contribution to the School of the Arts, please contact:

Roberta Albert
Associate Dean for Development
212-854-7724
ra481@columbia.edu

The Visual Arts Program would like to extend special thanks to its 2013 and 2014 contributors, and recognize those for whom fellowships and awards have been named: