{"id":11412,"date":"2026-06-09T20:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=11412"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T20:19:40","slug":"art-talk-rj-messineo","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/events\/event\/art-talk-rj-messineo\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Talk: RJ Messineo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1132\" height=\"1040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/Messineo-3.png\" alt=\"RJ Messineo\" class=\"wp-image-11419\" style=\"width:350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark\u2019s MFA in Visual Arts program presents an Art Talk with visiting faculty member RJ Messineo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RJ Messineo makes paintings that involve observation and abstraction, and engages a wide and sometimes incongruous range of scale relationships, mark-making, and compositional structures, drawing on expressionist gesture, process-based systems, and chance encounters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Messineo is represented by CANADA, New York City, and Mor\u00e1n Mor\u00e1n, Los Angeles, and has exhibited at venues such as Pace Gallery, James Cohan Gallery, and Thomas Erben Gallery, all in New York, City; Ceysson &amp; B\u00e9n\u00e9ti\u00e8re and Koerich, Luxembourg; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts program presents a series of talks with visiting faculty and artists. 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