Current Board Director Kit White (DG 2010) initially met Jason Stopa at Pratt when he was a MFA graduate student. Stopa interviewed Kit White in 2011 for NY Arts magazine. Jason is currently writing criticism for several publications including Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical and Hyperallergic. Jason Stopa is an artist and has recently had a solo exhibition, “Hanging Gardens”, at Atelier W in Pantin, France.
Walls and Occupied Spaces, new paintings by Kit White, will be hanging in Freedman Gallery and you can see Kit and Jason in conversation Saturday, April 27 at noon. Please RSVP via the link:http://www.artnews.com/events/freedmanart-3/
Kit White studied at Harvard University, A.B. Fine Arts, Cum Laude, and had his first solo exhibition with Betty Parsons at Parsons/Dreyfuss Gallery in 1977. His work has been the subject of more than twenty-five solo exhibitions in galleries and Museums. He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for painting and was a professor of painting for twenty-one years at Pratt Institute. His work is the subject of a monograph by Carter Ratcliff, Line Into Form, and Kit is the author of the international best-selling book 101 Things To Learn In Art School, published by MIT Press. A large selection of the original drawings from this book are in the collection of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, George Washington University.
Jason Stopa (b. 1983) is a painter and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Indiana University and his MFA from Pratt Institute. He is a contributing writer to Art in America, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. He teaches at Purchase College and Pratt Institute and edits for a philosophy journal at Columbia University.