In the News: Week of July 6

Quinn Antonio Briceño (MFA-VA22) was named as a finalist for the 2021 AXA Art Prize. Forty students were selected from over 600 submissions by a national jury of esteemed artists and curators, including associate professor Jamie Adams. An exhibition of the finalists’ works will be mounted this fall in New York, and the winners will be announced in November.

Judy Nixon (BFA49), the longtime editorial cartoonist for the Jefferson County Leader, has retired to move closer to her family. Nixon joined the Leader staff in 1998. She has won numerous state and national awards for her work, and was named to the Missouri Press Association Hall of Fame in 2014.

Jen Logan Meyer, assistant director of career development-art, has a new story in the summer issue of the Sewanee Review. Professor Jeff Pike has created several illustrations inspired by Meyer’s work, some of which will be on view in a fall faculty exhibition at the Des Lee Gallery.

In this “Rising Stars” Q&A for VoyageLA, Rose Briccetti (BFA08) discusses her career trajectory and her current artistic practice, which investigates the natural world, museology, and internet culture.

GRAVITAS, a solo exhibition by Adrian Luchini, the Raymond E. Maritz Professor of Architecture, in on view July 8 through Septmeber 4 at Atrium Gallery.

This Moment of Rupture, a national survey of contemporary ceramics featuring work by associate professor Arny Nadler, opens July 9 at VisArts Center (Rockville, MD) with a virtual reception from 5-7p. An in-person reception will take place from 7-9p July 16. The show remains on view through August 8.

The Prevalence of Ritual, a solo show by Ronald Young (MFA-VA18), is on view July 9-September 4 at The Gallery at The Kranzberg. Gallery visits are available by appointment only.

Screenings of several films by Zlatko Ćosić (MFA-VA11) will take place this month. Story 6: Scenes 1-9 and Un-Pollute will stream via Labocine (New York) from July 6-August 3, while By the Sea, To Worry Isn’t Love Doll, and Outcry will screen at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase from July 16-25.