Bold Outlines

SVA presents Bold Outlines: Celebrating SVA’s Graduate Programs, an exhibition of works by alumni and students from SVA’s more than a dozen graduate programs, curated by Daniela Marin Aristizábal (Independent curator and MA Curatorial Practice thesis student) and Lotte Marie Allen (MFA Computer Arts advisor and faculty). The exhibition will be on view Friday, November 8, through Wednesday, November 27, at the Flatiron Gallery, 133 West 21st Street, New York City. This show also celebrates the opening of the College’s new Graduate Center, a dedicated facility for all graduate students, staff, and faculty, where they can meet, congregate, and inspire one another’s respective practices. 

Bold Outlines highlights the interconnectedness of various fields, including visual art, design, social practice, illustration, moving images, and more, underscoring the importance of interdisciplinary approaches in today’s artistic landscape. It invites viewers to explore the threads and throughlines that bind these disciplines, reflecting on how different artistic practices can complement and enhance one another. 

Highlights from the exhibition include Hector Ruiz’s (MFA Design for Social Innovation) COMPA (2024), a collaboration with communities on both sides of the US and Mexican border. A glyph system was created and later programmed in a digital font that aims to reflect on what it means to live and travel in borderlands with two languages, as well as two political and economic systems. Xinlu Ciel Chen’s (BFA 2022 Illustration; MFA 2024 Illustration as Visual Essay) Echo in Blue (2024) is a frame-by-frame animation about giving and returning. A girl goes on a unique journey chasing her cat, culminating in the discovery of the truth and purpose behind it all. DW Zinsser’s (MFA Art Practice) A Beautiful Broth (2024) explores the resilience of the queer body through large-scale drawings that blend gestural watercolor painting and meticulous stippling. They create genderless, ageless forms that are both unformed and decaying; their work depicts piles of trash, plastic totems, and grotesque characters, celebrating excess and creating a cluttered shrine to grief.

The SVA Flatiron Gallery is open Monday through Saturday, 10am–6pm. The SVA Flatiron Windows is open Monday through Saturday, 10am–6pm. SVA Flatiron Windows is viewable from the sidewalk and also accessible by wheelchair.

The show features works by the following graduate departments at the School of Visual Arts: MPS Art Therapy, MA Curatorial Practice, MFA Visual Narrative, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, MFA Visual Narrative, MA Design Research, Writing, and Criticism, MFA Design for Social Innovation, MFA Art Practice, MA/MAT Art Education, MFA Fine Arts, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, MFA Design, MPS Digital Photography, MFA Interaction Design, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, MFA Visual Narrative, MPS Branding, MFA Design, MPS Film Directing, MFA Computer Arts, MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, MFA Visual Narrative, MFA Computer Arts, and MFA Products of Design.

The School of Visual Arts has been a leader in the education of artists, designers and creative professionals for more than seven decades. With a faculty of distinguished working professionals, a dynamic curriculum and an emphasis on critical thinking, SVA is a catalyst for innovation and social responsibility. Comprising more than 6,000 students at its Manhattan campus and 35,000 alumni in 100 countries, SVA also represents one of the most influential artistic communities in the world. For information about the College’s 32 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, visit sva.edu.