MassArt Alumna (MFA), Rashid Rana, (Urdu: راشد رانا) is a Pakistani artist. He has been included in numerous exhibitions in Pakistan and abroad with his works in abstractions on canvas, collaborations with a billboard painter, photographic/video performances, collages using found material, photo mosaics, photo sculptures, and large stainless steel works.
Artist Steve Locke to discuss public monuments in Gibbes Museum lecture
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In April 2015, Freddie Gray was arrested by Baltimore police and badly injured during transport. The 25-year-old African American man died a week later. Six officers were charged with crimes ranging from illegal arrest to second-degree “depraved-heart” murder. None were convicted.
The following year, artist Steve Locke secured a fellowship at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where he was invited to create a large-scale mural. Freddie Gray was on his mind…
Artist Steve Locke [MassArt Alumnus, MFA ‘01] is this year’s speaker in the Gibbes Museum’s Distinguished Lecture Series, set for 6 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Sottile Theatre.
[Translated from Spanish] Carlos García de la Nuez (Marianao, Havana, Cuba, 1959), acrylic artist, graduated from the legendary Academy of San Alejandro in Havana, Cuba. Postgraduate degree at the Higher Institute of Art in Havana and master’s degree in Visual Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art.
‘I stop in these autumn days, escorted by the lightness of the Covid-19 – apparently in stealth retreat -, to the Carlos García album / catalog (Editorial Talento Arte Visual, 2008) made up of more than 200 reproductions of pictorial pieces: codes in dialogue with radiation: exhilarated tints that border on azoro: outlines of sinking mirage: night transfigured into suns of shadows. García de la Nuez’s painting is subscribed in consonant primers: reminiscence floating in spirited circularity; dreaming dancing in sinuosities of desire. Orchard that pronounces the shortcut: orchard that adjoins the pause tree: truce in the preambles of the harvest.” – Carlos Olivares Baró
