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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • Zakariya Abdul-Qadir, MFA Fine Arts, Painting/Drawing ’25 is featured in the Art Newspaper about an exhibition at Haul Gallery. “The exhibition’s only painting, Zakariya Abdul-Qadir’s Bound by threaded dreams (2025), a rough-hewn portrait of a seated man, utilises unstable materials in a bid to render the work less desirable to acquire. The artist used non-archival paint applied to an unprimed support made from two canvases stitched together like the seam on a baseball; each element will hasten the work’s deterioration over time. The painting nonetheless sold during the opening (for $300), but its impermanence undermines its potential to be an asset whose value appreciates in perpetuity.”

  • Judith Solodkin, visiting associate professor of fine arts, was interviewed for Christie’s. Solodkin talks about working with Louise Bourgeois, printmaking as collaboration, and being a woman in the arts in the ’70s. “I really love making prints, and I love doing it with artists. So as long as I could do that, I was very happy.”

  • Chair of Undergraduate Architecture Stephen Slaughter served as a juror for the SOM Foundation 2024 Robert L. Wesley Award and the ACSA Collaborative Practice Award. Slaughter reflected on the experience for the School of Architecture News Page: “This was the most difficult jury I have ever participated in. I found myself deeply moved by both the students’ essays and videos, wavering between the value of merit and the value of need. Seeing how accomplished, compelling, and beautiful the work was only made my deliberations more challenging.”

  • An exhibition by Jen Mazza, visiting associate professor of Fine Arts, was reviewed in Dart Magazine. “Mazza’s poetic conceptualism works like poetry itself, placing one image adjacent to the next, and allowing their energetic conjunction to conjure something new in our consciousness,” writes John Mendelsohn. In conjunction with her exhibition, Mazza will be in conversation with Eric Dean Wilson at Ulterior Gallery. 

  • Associate Professor in the School of Information John Lauermann, along with graduate assistants Yuanhao Wu, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’25, and Nathan Smash, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’24, produced statistics and maps focused on housing data for the exhibition Collective Mobilities by Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow Alex Strada. The exhibition runs through March 9 in DeKalb Gallery on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus.

  • Visiting Professor of Art and Design Education Theodora Skipitares is mentioned in a recent New Yorker article about the gallery 15 Orient and the sculptor Jilaine Jones. Hilton Als describes Skipitares as “masterly” and notes that her “gothic puppets, stage designs, and other creations seemed to enhance the building’s gorgeous erosion.”

  • PCOMM partnered with New York City Council Member Lincoln Restler where he wrote an op-ed in Crain’s New York Business celebrating the partnership between Pratt Institute and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation as “an exciting example of how academic institutions can continue driving innovation, leading to the creation of new businesses that help fuel our local economy.” In the article, Restler explores the creative synergies at the Research Yard and Dock 72, writing that “by linking young creatives directly to the businesses that can help bring their ideas to life, Dock 72 is not only nurturing the next generation of creatives, but modeling how research institutions and businesses can collaborate to generate real-world impact on a local and potentially global scale.”