Field, Opening Reception

Mrinalini Aggarwal is an Indian artist working at the intersections of architecture, art and design. Her practice is an anti-disciplinary exploration of space that seeks to reconsider the ways in which urban landscapes mediate human relationships. Through re-conceptions of site and experience, she creates installations and environments that seek to shift perceptions, beliefs and assumptions about the nature of the physical world.Mrinalini has an MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and an undergraduate degree in Exhibition and Spatial Design from the National Institute of India. She is the founder of Streetlight, a critical spatial research and design laboratory for decolonizing public space. She presently teaches Undergraduate Fine Arts at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.Mrinalini's work has been exhibited at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, The Old Mint Building, San Francisco, Root Division, San Francisco, The First Presbyterian Church of New York, New York, and ChaShaMa, Space to Present, New York amongst other venues. She is the recipient of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design Fellowship (2018-19), the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (2019), the Graduate Fellowship Residency Award at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito (2017), and the Emerging Arts Professionals Fellowship in San Francisco (2017).

Fine Arts Department, School of Art, Pratt Institute

Opening Reception | Collaborative Studios | Research | Expanded Field

Pratt Institute, DeKalb Gallery

Please join us for the opening reception for Field / Site-in-Process, a collaborative studio, exhibition, and research within Expanded Field practices. Organized by Mrinalini Aggarwal, AICAD Fellow in Fine Arts, and co-hosted by Ane Gonzalez Lara, Assistant Professor in Architecture, and Swati Piparsania, AICAD Fellow in Design, this series offers students, faculty and interdisciplinary practitioners shared spaces for experimentation and process-based inquiry.Addressing a variety of themes at the intersections of ecology, politics, technology, objects, environments and the body, the exhibition features process collaborations between students and faculty across nine departments at Pratt and a host of invited artists, musicians, designers, educators and critical researchers. Workshop facilitators include - Amanda Huynh, Analia Segal, Ana Maria Farina, Dawn Weleski, Erica Morawski, Jean Shin, Judit Torok, Marshall Trammell, Naomi Safran-Hon, Natalia Ivanova Mount, Natalie Moore, and Rosemarie Fiore.Field / Site-in-Process is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Fine Arts department, the Creative Writing department, and the Center for Teaching and Learning, Pratt Institute, NY. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP recommended.

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