
A new exhibit at the Boiler Gallery in Williamsburg features work by Pratt Institute art students from around the world.
"Signs of Life: in and out of time and place" includes paintings, sculpture and photography and it was curated by Sara Reisman, artistic director of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.
In one piece, based on a bible verse from artist Bryan Hutchinson, who is Mormon, religious beliefs play prominently "A lot of my work has been reinvestigating my own history, my family history but also my relationship to some of these scriptural texts I grew up reading. This is somewhat of a reinterpretation of that verse," Hutchinson said.
Ayesha Kamal-Khan,who is from Islamabad, Pakistan, said the nature of the region she is from and the notion of instability inspired her sculpture. It consists of a large upholstered chair wrapped in fabric and propped high on a wall with just a small wooden beam.
"I was thinking a lot about the potential threat of things falling apart and how that becomes the very source that stabilizes structures," said Kamal-Khan.
The exhibit runs from now until April 24 and is free and open to the public.