The Schafler Gallery presents exhibitions by Pratt Institute faculty, students, and alumni from all departments. The gallery favors cross-disciplinary topics that reveal how ideas and issues affect our lives from many different perspectives and provides an open forum for the presentation and discussion of contemporary culture.
Pratt Institute
Chemistry Building, 1st Floor
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
718.636.3517
exhibits@pratt.edu
Hours: Monday – Saturday 11 am – 5 pm
The Schafler gallery is closed on Sundays and the following building holidays in 2022-23:
November 23-26, 2022 (Thanksgiving)
December 23, 2022–January 2, 2023 (Winter Break)
January 16, 2023 (Martin Luther King)
May 29, 2023 (Memorial Day)
July 4, 2023 (Independence Day)
September 4, 2023 (Labor Day)
November 22-25, 2023 (Thanksgiving)
December 25, 2023–January 1, 2024 (Winter Break)
ADMISSION IS FREE.
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Current Exhibition
Transductions: Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Experimentation
February 7–March 15, 2025
Opening Reception: February 6, 2025 5:30pm–7:30pm
Curated by Jason Vigneri-Beane, Olivia Vien, Stephen Slaughter, Hart Marlow
Artificial intelligence has prompted a profound surge in architectural experimentation. New forms of experimentation are rapidly emerging out of co-evolutionary feedbacks among architectural discourse, media, techniques and formats ranging from imagery to text to animation to mixed-reality media to fabrication and tectonics that are both material and immaterial. Transductions: Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Experimentation includes recent and on-going work from PrattSoA faculty and a set of contributors from across the architectural community of generative A.I. explorers and pioneers.
Contributors:
Kory Bieg
Robert Brackett III*
Anthony Buccellato*
Sara Codarin
Karl Daubmann
pneumastudio: Cathryn Dwyre + Chris Perry*
Curry J. Hackett
Frank Jacobus
Terreform ONE: Mitchell Joachim
Ed Keller
Brian M. Kelly
Matsys: Andrew Kudless
James Kerestes
Karel Klein
Daniel Koehler
Duks Koschitz*
Jason Lee*
Ariane Lourie-Harrison*
Geoff Manaugh and John Becker
Elena Manferdini
Sandra Manninger + Matias del Campo
Hart Marlow*
Clay Odom
Emre Ozdemir*
Ebrahim Poustinchi
Richard Sarrach
Martin Summers
Alex Tahinos*
Joshua Vermillion
Olivia Vien*
Jason Vigneri-Beane*
Dustin White
* Pratt Institute Faculty
Recent Exhibitions
Pieces of You, Pieces of Me
On view: August 5 – September 28, 2024
Reception: Tuesday, September 17, 5-7pm
Curated by Skye Prosper (’22) and Nande Walters (’23)
Participating artists:
Zakariya Abdul-Qadir, Kemi Alade, Shanoya Allwood, Jazmin Chapman, Catherine Chattergoon, Ezra Cumbo, Monique Edwards, Rob Hill, Jalin Kolen, Deona Lizette, Fae Lugo, Ananda Ray, Morvens Regis, Haley Sessoms, Sahara Sheikh
The Dean of the School of Art, Jorge Oliver, is proud to present Pieces of You, Pieces of Me, co-curated by Pratt alums Skye Prosper (’22) and Nande Walters (’23). This exhibition showcases the work of 15 students and alumni who identify with the Black, African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Hispanic, Afro-Latinx, Black Hispanic, or Black Latinx experience. In collaboration with the Pratt Department of Exhibitions, Pieces of You, Pieces of Me is on view from Aug. 5–Sept. 28. We hope you will spend time with the exceptional work of our students and alumni, which spans painting, sculpture, digital animation, photography, film and illustration and that you will be inspired by this years curators, who have drawn on the work of Jamaican-British cultural theorist Stuart Hall and American sociologist W.E.B. DuBois to frame their vision.
An Egg in a Dream in a Landscape
Film/Video Faculty & Staff Exhibition
On view: January 24 – March 2, 2024
Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 5-7pm
Curated by Emily Rose Apter and Inney Prakash
Participating Artists:
Fabio Andrade, Simone Barros, GITA BLAK, Jacob Burckhardt, Joanna Claessens, Lisa Crafts, Maya Edelman, Jim Finn, Lorenzo Gattorna, Anton Ginzburg, Kara Hearn, Eliza Hittman, Matthew Hysell, Bethany Jacobson, Sewra G. Kidane, Caroline Lathrop, Deborah Meehan, Matías Piñeiro, Christopher Radcliff, Suneil Sanzgiri, Eric Trenkamp, Joshua Ryan Troxler, Tray Tsui, Sasha Sumner, Justice Whitaker, Bryan Wizemann
Corpus:
Landscapes of Memories and Eternal Sprouting
August 29 – September 30, 2022
Curated by Constanza Valenzuela (BFA Fine Arts Sculpture 17′)
Presented by School of Art and the Office of Exhibitions
With support from Somos Pratt; Center for Equity & Inclusion; Alumni Relations; and Pratt Presents
Artists:
Lydia Allende Hernandez(BFA Communications Design ‘25)
Mateo Arciniegas Huertas (BFA Photography ‘23)
Julio Cardenas-Arana (BFA Fine Arts Painting ‘23)
Andrea Garcia (BFA Fine Arts Painting ‘22)
Felix Lugo (BFA Art & Design Education ‘23)
Ariana Milan (BFA Fine Arts Painting ‘22)
Emily Morillo (BFA Art & Design Education ‘25)
Kristina Naso (MFA Photography ‘22)
Christian Ocampo (BFA Film ‘22)
Dariana Portes (BFA Photography ‘23)
MADeleine Riande (MFA Fine Arts ‘22)
Andrea Robles (BFA Fine Arts Painting ‘24)
Aysia Ciel Ramirez Segura (BFA Digital Arts ‘22)
Gina Somma (BFA Fine Arts Painting ‘23)
The human body is central to how we understand facets of identity such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The artists in this exhibition, Corpus, explore the complex and fragmented Latine/@/X identity through representations of the body, reflection, presence, and autonomy. In thinking about the body as a vessel of memories, sentimientos, and compartmentalized traumas – and its direct relationship to change, growth, and healing – the artists use the body as a medium to tell a personal narrative and explore a perpetual sense of belonging.
As the body is a site for expressing identity, artists historically have used depictions or taken inspiration from the body for thousands of years to convey and comment on culture, power, social structures, spiritual beliefs, and cultural values. While the Latine/@/X identity is increasingly contested as a unifying ethnicity for over thirty countries with diverse and complicated histories tied to a colonial and racially segregated past, there is an increasing urge in Western institutions for the visibility of Latine/@/X folks and culture, which have previously been neglected, under-resourced, and under-scholarized. Building on a growing presence of Latine/@/X students and faculty at universities in the United States, it is crucial to create and hold space to further examine identity and its ties to historical oppression, media stereotypes, and erasure. From this point on, we can embark on an open-ended discussion of the body and its relationship to diaspora and the Latine/@/X identity.
Let us take a moment to consider the metaphysical understanding of searching for belonging. In a diasporic sense most work in relation to identity is autobiographical, drawing from a personal history of being displaced, misunderstood, and in pursuit of self-determination. Themes in this exhibition include but are not limited to memories, family, trauma, absence, guilt, reflection, healing, sexuality, language, connection, folklore, classicism, Syncretism, and mortality. The body in some shape or form makes a consistent appearance throughout the exhibited work to speak through these themes, their differences, and their commonalities.
Cover art by Lydia Allende Hernandez, Cuánto Duele Tu Amor, 2021
BFA Sculpture + Integrated Practices Thesis Exhibition
On view from April 18 – May 8, 2022
Opening reception on Monday, April 18 from 5pm -7pm
The Rubelle and Norman Schafler and Dekalb Galleries on Pratt’s Brooklyn campus
To attend please register here
More information about the Sculpture + Integrated Practices exhibition here
Please note that the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery has different hours than Dekalb. Official Schafler Gallery hours are listed above, Monday – Saturday 11am – 5pm.
Please join us for the thesis exhibition of our BFA Sculpture + Integrated Practices BFA students. In this culminating exhibition, each student will present a body of work developed during their senior year.
Eris Cereli Avera
Helena Chappell
Rendele Collins
Sage Gentry
Alexa Hartman
Naomi Larson
Madison Maffia
Dillon Monamara
Daniel Menatian
Matalina Moore
Dylan Newlon
Atlas Thomas
Ariana Tottenhoff
Sarah Weiner
BFA Printmaking Thesis Exhibition
March 28 – April 12, 2022
Opening Reception with the Artists
Monday April 4: 5PM–7PM
Please join us for the thesis exhibition of our Printmaking BFA students. In this culminating exhibition, each student will present a body of work developed during their senior year.
Devan Armeni
Maya Cardinali
Aidan Flynn
Ezra Ooghe
Sena Ozdemir
Open to the public. Registration is required. To attend, please register here
More information about the Printmaking exhibition here
Place/Displace
An exhibition of Art & Technology faculty in the Department of Digital Arts
Curated by Linda Lauro-Lazin, Assistant Chairperson
Department of Digital Arts
On view October 28, 2021 – March 4th, 2022
Including Artists:
Blake Marques Carrington, Mattia Casalegno, Andréa DeFelice, Heather Delaney, rebecca (marks) leopold, Amelia Marzec, Steven Pestana, Colette Robbins, Sophia Sobers, Suzy Sureck, Claudia Tait.
Fine Arts: BFA Printmaking & Sculpture And Integrated Practices Thesis Exhibition
Yours Truly
April 20-May 3, 2021
Hours: M-F, 12-2 pm for Campus Community Only
(Closed Tuesday, April 27th for Final Critiques)
Including: Mavet Arellano, Colette Bernard, Whitney Davis, Ev Jensen, Rebecca Johnson, Lex Laneuville, Mia McCormick, Mika Rathi, Shane Sollender, and Natalie Van Oyen.
Foundation Department Exhibition
On View: January 21–March 11, 2020
Opening Reception: January 28, 5–7 PM
Featuring works from:
- Lucas Albrecht
- Luis Alonso
- Todd Ayoung
- Brian Brooks
- Kye Carbone
- Amelia Carley
- Megan Cash
- Pier Luigi Consagra
- Maria de Los Angeles
- Carol Diamond
- Sandra Erbacher
- Iona Fromboluti
- Yechiam Gal
- Derek Haffar
- Faith Holland
- Jackie Hoving
- Elise Kaufman
- Sophia Kayafas
- Andrew Lenaghan
- James Lipovac
- Dik Liu
- Jennifer Logun
- JJ Manford
- Jenny Lynn McNutt
- Natalie Moore
- Martina Mrongovius
- Sung Ha No
- Matthew Northridge
- Jonathan Peck
- Reeva Potoff
- Andrew Prayzner
- Birgit Rathsmann
- Leslie Roberts
- Scott Robinson
- Julia Shinay
- Kim Sloane
- Micki Watanabe Spiller
- Corinne Ulmann
- Beth Warshafsky
- Patrick Webb
- Rebecca Welz
- Andrew Wilhelm
- Scott Williams
- Douglas Wirls
- Christopher Wynter
- Alice Zinnes
Organized by the Pratt Institute Exhibitions Department.