Studio Talks: Blair Peters + Andy Pepper with Professor John Priola

Описание: Join the San Francisco Art Institute for a new series, Studio Talks. Listen in when a professor dialogues with a student and a recent alum about their work, influences, experience at SFAI, and so much more.

About the Artists:
Blair Peters, 2021 San Francisco Art Institute Low-Residency MFA
Blair spent her adult life influenced by the rugged west coast landscape, but her connection to nature began as a child growing up in North Carolina, spending time tending to the garden with her father. Over the years, this led her to become an accomplished landscape designer, as well as providing boundless imagery for her paintings. Blair’s fascination with the wildness and unpredictability of nature versus the manicured formality of an urban garden is often evident in her studio work. There is a curiosity with “controlling chaos”, whether it be a sprawling shrub or an expressive paint mark. Her inherent process of layering the surface with marks and paints, then editing by removing and covering, replicates this process on the canvas. Her paintings and collages explore this desire to create order in an inextricably messy world. http://blairtylerpeters.com/about

Andy Pepper, MFA Studio Art, 2019
Andrew Keys Pepper (b. 1978, Pike County, Mississippi) is a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, sculpture, photography, and audio. Pepper’s work is shaped by his education in journalism, and as a horticulturist, as well as his upbringing in the rural American South in a family of gardeners, cotton farmers, and outdoorsmen. Pepper received a Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute in 2019, where he earned the Outstanding Graduate Student Award. In 2001, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from The University of Memphis, and in 2016, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from SMFA at Tufts University, where he was awarded the Museum School Council Sculpture Prize for excellence in sculpture. http://akpepper.com

Professor J. John Priola, Director Low-Residency MFA, Photography
J. John Priola is a contemporary visual artist using photography and video. First gaining recognition at Fraenkel Gallery, there have been numerous solo exhibitions at Anglim Gilbert Gallery, now Anglim/Trimble Gallery. His work is known for refined print quality, installation, and presentation. His work has been shown in many major exhibitions including, "In A Different Light" University Art Museum, Berkeley, "Prospect '96", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. He’s a recipient of an Aaron Siskind Award and a Svane Foundation Commission. Work is held in numerous museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and the SFMoMA. MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1987. BFA, with Honors, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO, 1984. http://jjohnpriola.com