Brooklyn College M.F.A. Students Present Thesis Show at Pine Tree Group Building in Chelsea

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April 28, 2000

Brooklyn College M.F.A. Students

Present Thesis Show at Pine Tree Group Building in Chelsea

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Alice Newcomb-Doyle (718) 951-5882

Brooklyn, N.Y. -- Fourteen Brooklyn College students in the master of fine arts program will exhibit their works at the Pine Tree Group Building, 547 West 27 Street in Manhattan, from Friday, May 5, through Tuesday, May 23. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 6, from 6 to 9 p.m.

The exhibition will include sculptures, prints, paintings, photography, video, installations, and digital art. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.

The Brooklyn College Art Department ranks among the best undergraduate and graduate programs in the nation. The graduate degree program offers a master of arts in art history, a master of fine arts in art, and a master of arts for art teachers (K-12).

The distinguished faculty includes Lennart Anderson, Jack Flam, Karen Giusti, Mona Hadler, Michael Mallory and William T. Williams.

PAINTERLY PAIRING
Suzanne Meehan, a painter and the exhibition's coordinator, and Lennart Anderson, distinguished professor of art, muse in front of a canvas by Maria Marshall at the MFA 2000 Thesis Exhibition, April 28.

ART APPRECIATION
Viewers drink in paintings by Mahtab Aslani at the Pine Tree Group Building in Chelsea. A fabric artwork by Jung-Hoon Lee is partially visible at right.

GALLERYGOERS
The reception draws a throng to the former garage space on West 27 Street in Manhattan, which was converted into a gallery by MFA students.

3-D IMAGING
A duo appears to be at one with a creation by David Arthur, who is among the fourteen artists represented in the MFA exhibition.

SUSPENDED ANIMATION
Free-floating works by Janet Cruz-Suárez, foreground, frame patrons as well as paintings by Suzanne Meehan.

KODACHROME
An admirer attempts to capture on film the vibrant colors of Jacqueline Malanga's work.

Brooklyn College, founded in 1930 and located on a twenty-six acre tree-lined campus in Flatbush, is one of the eleven senior colleges of the City University of New York. It enrolls 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students who are representative of the diverse population of Brooklyn and New York City. The school is nationally known for its core curriculum, which has been hailed as one of the "bright spots" in American higher education.
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