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Through dozens of small, colorful paintings, Esther Pearl Watson (Art MFA 12) depicts a rapidly changing world in which the once mundane is juxtaposed against an unprecedented crisis. As the pandemic continued, Watson’s desire...
Micaela Tobin (Music MFA 16) admits she went through bouts of depression, like many others, during the pandemic. The soprano singer and sound artist’s gigs had been canceled when almost everything came to a...
It was announced in April, that after three transformative decades as dean of CalArts’ School of Art, Thomas Lawson will step down as dean at the end of the fall 2021 semester. Luckily for...
Thomas Lawson Endurance, 2012. Oil on canvas. 72 x 84 inches (182.9 x 213.4 cm. (Inv# TL 12.009) | Photography: Brian Forrest. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Thomas Lawson Confrontation: Headbangers, 2010. Oil on canvas. 72 x 60 inches (182.9 x 152.4 cm). (Inv# TL 10.006) | Photography: Fredrik Nilsen Studio. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lawson's A Portrait of New York (1989) installation | Courtesy Susan Morgan
The Arrogant Prince, 2017. Oil on canvas. 213 x 152 cm 213 x 152 in | © Thomas Lawson 2021. Courtesy of Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects
Soulless Sisters, 2019. Oil on canvas. 213 x 183 in 213 x 183 cm. | © Thomas Lawson 2021. Courtesy of Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects
Roman Head II, 2019. Oil on canvas. 30 x 30 in 76.2 x 76.2 cm | © Thomas Lawson 2021. Courtesy of Louise Alexander Gallery/AF Projects
