Adriana Farmiga MFA ’04 Interviewed by Fawn Krieger MFA ’05 for Bomb Magazine 

In conversation for Bomb magazine, Bard alumnae and visual artists Adriana Farmiga MFA ’04 and Fawn Krieger MFA ’05, who lectured together at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nearly a decade and now both teach at the Cooper Union School of Art, discussed Farmiga’s new body of work. The AVATAR series features scaled up wooden plywood sculptures described by Farmiga as masks or protest posters, currently on view at Marisa Newman Projects gallery in New York. “A mask allows an individual to lose or transcend their identity, while protest posters serve to signal one’s belief systems or demands,” Farmiga told Krieger. “Both function as barriers between the individual and the world; both peddle in anonymity and identification. In my hybridized version, the scaled-up form of the protest poster on a stick also assumes the role of a mask or shape of a sentient being.”

Post Date: 10-29-2024