Group Crit: MFA Painting and Sculpture 1969 – 2024

A forum for dialogue. Group critique, or “Group Crit” is a cornerstone of the graduate school student experience. It’s a moment for students to step out from under the perspectives of faculty and share and hear their own ideas with their cohort. The “Group Crit” allows for an exchange of criticism and comments that are profound and profane, acute and empty, snarky and barbed, playful and deeply serious. It is a place for emerging artists to come together and expose themselves, to learn to articulate themselves in relation to their work and the work of others, and to recognize that one’s individual ideas, while valid, are not necessarily universally held.

Group Crit: MFA Painting and Sculpture 1969 – 2024 exhibits over 50 Boston University School of Visual Arts alumni who are visually, materially, and conceptually articulating themselves in conversation with each other. The exhibition, like a good group crit, is a cross-generational discourse on form and ideas. The work at times agrees with each other and at other times agrees to disagree. Group Crit celebrates these varied perspectives and creates a space for them to be appreciated together.

Participating Artists

Helena Aboseif (CFA’24) • Rachelle Agundes (CFA’06) • Taylor Apostol (CFA’15) • Davis Arney (CFA’21) • Katherine Austin (CFA’78) • Nina Bellucci (CFA’09) • Ryleigh Beloin (CFA’23) • Resa Blatman (CFA’06) • Cody Robert Hook Bluett (CFA’24) • Judith Brassard Brown (CFA’78) • Jennifer Caine (CFA’05) • Jason Correia (CFA’23) • Joel Christian Gill (CFA’04) • Gavin Fahey (CFA’22) • Erik Grau (CFA’10) • Marissa Graziano (CFA’18) • Sam Guy (CFA’19) • Bruce Herman (CFA’79) • Judy Bergman Hochberg (CFA’69) • Deborah Kamy Hull (CFA’78) • Joanna L. Kao (CFA’75) • Abbi Kenny (CFA’24) • Matthew Kreher (CFA’93) • Kyle Larson (CFA’12) • Alla Lazebnik (CFA’12) • Eung-Sun Lee (CFA’16) • Damon Lehrer (CFA’94) • Elizabeth Livingston (CFA’06) • Emily Manning-Mingle (CFA’22) • Julian MacMillan (CFA’20) • David Mar (CFA’12) • Elizabeth Menges (CFA’08) • Denise Mickilowski (CFA’95) • Thomas Miles (CFA’78) • Shantel Miller (CFA’21) • Bradley Milligan (CFA’21) • Marc Mitchell (CFA’03) • Kayla Mohammadi (CFA’02) • Luke Morrison (CFA’23) • Evan Morse (CFA’15) • Meghan Murray (CFA’22) • Lydia Jenkins Musco (CFA’07) • Aaron Norfolk (CFA’09) • Sara Pringle (CFA’04) • Josh Richards (CFA’20) • AJ Rombach (CFA’22) • Josh Rondeau (CFA’21) • Jacob Salzer (CFA’24) • Anne Schutz (CFA’94) • Ruth Scotch (CFA’88) • David Shapleigh (CFA’99) • Aaron Sinift (CFA’02) • Tim Steele (CFA’83) • Alex Stern (CFA’20) • Aliza Sternstein (CFA’16) • Emily Trenholm (CFA’11) • Rob Ventura (CFA’13) • Gus Wheeler (CFA’19)

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