Arts Thread
April 20, 2021
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Above: Pratt Institute Fine Arts & Photography MFA thesis exhibition 2021 artists 1- 2 Precious Baswell / 3-4 Elle Ellinger/ 5 Bethanya Adebe/ 6 Dalya Bain
Nearly 30 graduates from the 2021 Fine Arts and Photography MFA course at the Pratt Institute are showcasing their final projects in a digital and physical show at The Pfizer Building, NYC.
The show, which opened 14 April features works that explore the relationship between landscapes, our perceptions of people and embrace nostalgia and optimism.
Precious Baswell’s project, Hoodies, sees the graduate photographing people dressed in oversided hooded sweatshirts. Baswell obscures the face of the wearer, creating what Baswell describes as ‘an unsettling and ambiguous’ figure. Baswell continues: ‘Due to the cocoon-like nature the figures are within, some of their senses are inhibited by my control. In this way, I am controlling the audience’s senses as well by manipulating both the composition of my images and the hooded figures as subjects.’