Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Tig MOM mM You weren’t smiling so smugly the first time we met. Portfolio in tow, killing time before your inter- view with Gene Garfinkle (proba- bly the only time you were early for anything around here). Round- ing the corner on the third floor you had your initial encounter with my display of senior work. We stared at each other for quite sometime. I watched your expres- sion change from curious amazement to prickly panic. If you don’t mind my asking, how close did you come to blowing off that interview? Obviously you didn’t because there you were in the fall, still checking out the displays. By spring semester something changed. Instead of wonderment over technique, you questioned composition. The first time one of your pieces made it we spent a long time together. I also remem- ber overhearing it was the first time your folks didn’t have to pay to hear the sound of your voice. Your senior survey wasn’t bad. Even that pompous, failed fine artist commented on a “certain refreshingly conceptual feeling be- ginning to emerge.” (Whatever that means). When you start tak- ing your book around, remember how confidence in your work can override the panic and how unat- tainable a place in my glass case once seemed. Hey, you better get going, I hear someone coming up the stairs. mn . Front Row from the left: Cheryl Brundage, Laurel Tobias, Alfonso Gobea, Tom New- berry, Sam Scali. Second row: Gerry Contrer: il Gittens, LaDora Redmond, Joann Zelano, Karen Cumerford, Aldo Legido, Steve Powell, David Passalacqua Third Row: John O'Hara, Steven Cragg, Gayle Erickson, 7, Ben Hillman, Vladimir Shpigel. Back: Karen Massergiaa, Mary Paik, Rebecca Farash, Debra Clendennen, Howard Fertig, Steven Greene, Michael Barta los. John Athorne, Wendy Szeto, David Au, Lynnette Pellegrini, David Matava, Karen Jacobson, Carlos Martinez JT OA LAD LAD AD A AR UA ne

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Wow a a a a First row from the left: Robin Brown, Gergory Scott, George Lee, Virginia Jung, Renee Dulinckas, Tony Vela, Dorothy Griffin, Sam Lober, George Klauber, Charles Goslin. Second row: Judy Seckler, Mary Anne Sowah, Paul Graboff, Millicia West, Charles Friedman, Gayle Miller, Richard Longo, Edward Meir, Phyllis Chan, David Robbins, Iris Figueroa, Doug Brown, Mar- garet Noon. Back row: Thomas Tierney, Wendy Szeto, Daniel Paterna, Sharon Roth, Perer Nomura, ron Occhipinti, Scott Santoro, J k, Michael Gerbino, Ralph Senzamici, Kathleen Corrigan “COMMUNICATIONS DESIGN”