Category: Trivedi, Saam

City as Canvas: Street Art & Graffiti Culture in NYC

Group Members: Solina Lin, Umar Habib, Angelina Sunny, Joseline Mendez This project is more than a historical timeline of New York City’s street art—it is an investigation into…

Caribbean Influence in New York City

Group Members: Abigail Newell and Antonia Macchia-Barba New York City is a melting pot of people from varying cultures, and it is important to recognize the impact that…

The Art of Celebration

Group Members: Olive Treadwell, Abigail Migirov, Rianne Rodeo, Victoria Skomra, Isabela Morales This project is an exploration of the Arts in NYC as told through celebration. As New…

Graffiti in NYC

Group Members: Alexander Genkin, Benjamin Brinzensky, Kevin Lin Our project explores the evolution of New York graffiti from its origins as an underground form of self-expression to its…

Afrofuturism and its Impact on Art

My presentation was about Afrofuturism and the impacts it has had on art. In this presentation I analyzed various works from artist Kehinde Wiley through an afrofuturist lens, and addressed the revolutionary way in which Wiley reshapes the past using aspects of the present to speculate towards a hopeful future for black people across the diaspora.

Rococo Art and Art Deco

My project is about observing Rococo art and its characteristics and then comparing and contrasting Rococo Art with Art Deco.

The Italian Futurist movement (Joseph Levy)

My presentation is about the “Italian Futurist Art Movement” which spanned from 1909 up until 1944. In this presentation I displayed the various artists of the futurist movement and examined the way used art to capture the dynamism, speed, and energy of the industrialized world in their time.