Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Isabelle Schipper.

Isabelle Schipper (b. 1995) is a painter based in Queens, New York. She earned her MFA in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019 and her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017. In 2016, she studied at the Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York. 

In 2018, she collaborated with Small Editions to publish the risograph zine Bikini Girls, first presented at the New York Art Book Fair (MoMA PS1). The work is now held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ohio University, SUNY Purchase, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, University of Michigan, and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Schipper makes paintings teeming with signs and symbols of femininity. Thinking about community, connectivity, and bodies in space, she plays with the lines between painting and drawing, between abstraction and figuration, between flatness and depth.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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