Alumni at Work

Aaron Bagley, Jessixa Bagley, Biff Baskerville, Donna Darko, Dave Edgar, Tricia Gray, Julia Gfrorer,

This group of twelve artists, all of whom attended Cornish from 2000-2004, reunite to present a show that demonstrates how they have all evolved since their past collective experience at the Seattle art school.

The Artists: Aaron Bagley (AR '04), Jessixa Bagley (AR '04), Biff Baskerville, Donna Darko, Dave Edgar (AR '04), Tricia Gray (AR '05), Julia Gfroerer (AR '04), Dana Morgan (AR '04), Ephraim Peniston (AR '04), John Radtke (AR '00-'03), Sonya Stockton (AR '04), and Cassandra Wood (AR '00-'02).

Opening reception: Thursday, May 10th, 6-9pm

Diem Chau

More work from Diem Chau (Ar '02), this time at THE UNION for Contemporary Art in Omaha.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 4th, 7pm-10pm

Heather Hart

Raw/Cooked presents a year-long series of five exhibitions by under-the radar Brooklyn artists. Thousands of artists are creating work in Brooklyn every day, affirming the borough as one of the world's creative capitals. To recognize emerging Brooklyn artists and provide a showcase for their work, the Brooklyn Museum, with support from Bloomberg, invites five artists to present their first major museum exhibitions. The artists are given the opportunity to work with the Museum's collection and to present in spaces of their choosing, however unconventional.

The fourth exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series presents the work of Bedford-Stuyvesant-based artist Heather Hart (AR '98). Hart built a large-scale structure titled The Eastern Oracle for display in the Museum's fifth-floor rotunda. She describes the work as "an independent rooftop, removed from its house, and dropped from the sky to live its own life in a new context. A rooftop can refer to home, stability, or shelter, but in this context, it is also an action of reclaiming power." The work makes reference to the Museum's ancient Egyptian and African collections and to the Jan Martense Schenck House, a two-room structure built in 1676 that is Brooklyn's second-oldest example of Dutch-American architecture, and the oldest architecture in the Museum's period room collection. Viewers are encouraged to physically interact with The Eastern Oracle and to use it as a place for self-reflection and self-empowerment.

Hart received a B.F.A. from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle in 1998 and an M.F.A. from Rutgers University, New Jersey, in 2008, She was recommended for Raw/Cooked by Mickalene Thomas.