Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University
Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University

April 29th, 2014: 8pm Deborah Kass in conversation with Gaby Collins-Fernandez

Day After Day, 2010

Deborah Kass, born 1952 and received her BFA in Painting at Carnegie Mellon University, and studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.  Her work employs the visual motifs of post-war painting to explore the intersection of politics, popular culture, art history and personal identity.

Kass’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, among others.

Read more about Deborah on Hyperallergic

Daddy, 2007

 

Double Double Yenti (My Elvis), 1993

 

 Gaby-Collins Fernandez was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MFA from Yale University in 2012. In 2013 she received a Rema Hort Mann Foundation award. This fall she will be in a group show about mermaids and tides curated by Jarrett Earnest at Diet Gallery in Miami.

First Blue Velvet Piece, 2012

Blue Burlap Stacked Piece, 2013