I looked forward to being a fine arts thesis student my whole life. I always looked up to senior artists whose status came with studio practices, solo exhibitions and thousands of Instagram followers. The space gave me the freedom to work fluidly, transforming old paintings, ripping and re-stretching canvases and showing and discussing works in progress with other artists. This fluid expression of ourselves as artists happened because of the energies we shared in the studio space, and the freedom we felt to make the work we were passionately driven to create. I had the freedom to take classes that inform the work I’ve made, including various art history courses, Jewish studies and the anthropology of religion.

Source: Daily Sun March 19, 2020 20:15 UTC