The Five: Jasmine Gregory, Harris Savides and More SVA Artists in the Press | School of Visual Arts

This week’s edition of The Five sees SVA alumni and faculty celebrated around the world across fine art, film, design, comics and even the culinary space. The new business venture is coming with new exhibitions in these highlights from the press over the past few weeks.

1. In a major career milestone for Jasmine Gregory (BFA 2009 Photography), MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York, will present her first U.S. museum exhibition, “Who Wants to Die for Glamour,” on view from October 10, 2024, through February 17, 2025. “Commingling paintings with items such as wine bottles, wire hangers, tinsel, and studio refuse, she weaves scenarios whose ambiguous drama reflects the difficulty of digesting and producing within hyper-saturated cultural landscapes,” writes Fad. The show will also include a large-scale, site-specific installation for MoMA PS1.

2. When cinematographer Harris Savides (BFA 1982 Film and Video) passed away in 2012, he left an indelible mark across the film industry. Indiewire recently asked a slew of directors and crew to reflect on Savides’s impact on their projects and careers, including Noah Baumbach, Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant and Jonathan Glazer. One particularly glowing anecdote from the piece reads, “There was a sense of magic surrounding what Savides was able to do. When discussing what his go-to cinematographer was using to light a scene, director David Fincher used to joke, ‘I don’t know, Harris [has] got a jar of fireflies.’”