visual & critical studies

READ @serenawawaweewa (VCS 2024) in her moving @whitehotmagazine curatorial statement for the exhibition by the artist @februarytrash at the Floating Art Museum, Tianjin, China. Link in bio. #art #curator #svawesome #writing @svanycalumni

OPENING THURSDAY Terrains of Sound, Light, and Form, curated by #visualcritical alumna (VCS 2015) and @sva_honors Prof @ilotnasailuj . See this show! @svanyc @svanycalumni @mal__wear @canto_villano @connercalhoun #art #nyc #svawesome #gallery

Today’s SVA newsletter names VCS student @natastrat one of “Five SVA Community Instagrams to Follow in May”. We agree! Check out her incredible work. @svanyc @svanycalumni #visualcritical #art #livingartist #instagram #nyc

Last Friday a group of Honors & VCS students was invited to attend a production of Moby Dick hosted at @bam_brooklyn , New York City. This enigmatic interpretation of Herman Melville’s classic American novel was directed by avant-garde artist Robert Wilson and features a score by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi. This event was facilitated by our fabulous Prof Paloma Crousillat (@osito107 ). Thank you to all those who participated! @svanyc #sva #visualcritical #svawesome #mobydick #bam

Thank you to those who showed up to our annual Honors End-of-the-Year Pizza Party, concurrent with @visualcritical ’s great Open Studios! We enjoyed celebrating another delightful year of learning with our incredibly diligent Honors students. And signing Honors Trip photo books! Thank you to @joespizzanyc for providing catering to this event. We hope you all have a great summer and look forward to seeing you again next year! 
@svanyc #sva #svawesome #pizza #pizzaparty #nyc

Some shots of a wonderful night at VCS Open Studios, including performance by @lucy.rosablanca & Book sale benefitting @penamerica . Awesome work by all, and s/o to curator @phristoff ! Photos by @osito107 @svanyc #visualcritical #openstudios #schoolsout #books #performance

TONIGHT get books for your summer reading, support the fight against book bans, and see art! 5-8pm, 133 W 21st St! Organized by the great @phristoff . #visualcritical #art #nyc #books #bookbans @sva_honors @svanyc

TOMORROW! Come to this year's VCS Open Studios, from 5PM-8PM on the 4th floor of 133 West 21 Street. Working in a variety of media, all work pictured is created by current students in the program. The department’s annual Hands Off My Books IV book sale will also be held in the VCS library as part of Open Studios. Exhibition organized by @phristoff and the students, faculty and staff of VCS. @svanyc #visualcritical #studentwork #studentexhibition #svawesome #gallery

The BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department is pleased to present One Foot Forward, an exhibition of works by its graduating class. The exhibition will run from April 27 to May 6, and the reception will be held on Thursday April 30, 6 to 8pm, simultaneous with the VCS Open Studios on the 4th floor of 133 West 21 Street. For this exhibit, each VCS Senior was given a one foot square birch panel to interpret the idea of ‘one foot (step) forward,’ in a manner appropriate to their practice. Participating artist Lucy Rosa Blanca will also perform “With One Foot Forward, Como La Flor Was Performed 3 Years Ago, I Mean To Say Thank You All For Being Here,” at 7pm in the Flatiron Project Space Gallery.

This exhibition was organized by Peter Hristoff (BFA Fine Arts, SVA ’81) and the students, faculty and staff of VCS. The department’s annual Hands Off My Books IV book sale is still accepting donations as well! Friendly reminder that proceeds will be sent to PEN America to fight book bans and attacks on libraries here in the US. @svanyc #vcs #nyc #sva #svawesome #exhibit

“One Foot Forward” a project by the graduating class of Visual & Critical Studies, SVA, opens April 27 (through May 6th); the opening reception and VCS Open studios are on Thursday, April 30th, 5 to 8pm, Flatiron Project Space and the entire 4th floor of 133 West 21 Street. Please join us. #vcsopenstudios #svavcs #sva #svawesome #mystudentsarethebest @visualcritical @svanyc

Art history and Honors professor Lynn Gamwell’s book “Conjuring the Void: the Art of Black Holes” was featured in the May 2026 issue of Physics World, both as the cover and in a wonderful excerpt. Congratulations! #svafaculty #svawesome #svahonors #artandscience #visualcritical @svanyc @_physicsworld_

A dialogue between Aura Rosenberg and Egon Schiele is on view at Meredith Rosen Gallery opening April 24 through May 23! Rosenberg’s Champs Délicieux reworks abstraction through oilcloth and everyday imagery, emphasizing materiality and embodied experience, while Schiele’s intimate figure drawings confront the body with psychological and erotic intensity. #svanyc #svawesome #nycgallery #nycexhibition #artgallery @svanyc @meredithrosengallery