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2025 MFA Candidates

Frankie Kadir Vaughan
Kadir Vaughan’s art offers playful and self-aware engagement with performance and video, exploring blurred boundaries between entertainment, local access television, and reality. His works feature absurd and sometimes humorous characters reminiscent of classic dating shows and the aesthetics of early reality television. These characters, often comical, also reflect the strange sincerity that can accompany manufactured “reality” culture. Tinged with sardonic self-awareness, he invites us to question our participation in this spectacle and construction of authenticity. Can we experience his work as entertainment, reality and reflection?

Wendy Lipp
Hunting for the whimsical, Lipp invites us to find a reimagined understanding of “natural”. Priming a canvas of linen or cotton with rabbit skin glue, she reshapes identifiable figures, such as trees in a way that transcends the metaphysical, representing the organic with itself. Fueled by the essence of the mystery of what she cannot see and the curiosity that follows, her painting process begins with a spark of inspiration—to search a feeling. Reinterpreting the natural world, we can see the capture of a movement on canvas. Combined with the experience of color, perhaps there is an evocation to change our perspective on what was once intangible.

Jody Rasch
What catches your eye? What emotions stir as you look closer? Jody Rasch’s work explores the unseen dimensions of our universe, transforming images of scientific discovery into vibrant, scaled-up compositions that can immerse us in flowing shapes and color. Rasch’s works bring the invisible to life, making the abstract beauty of science tangible and material. Recently, Rasch has begun experimenting with materials and installation devices to create paintings that exist not only on the wall, but also suspended above us. This shift invites us to engage with the world as physical sculptural forms, prompting a deeper reflection on the intersection of art and science.

Samira Homayouni

PS122 Gallery, 150 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009
On View: May 9 - May 18

PS122 Opening Reception: Friday, May 9, 6 PM