Installation view of River Rock/Shadow by Brianna Tadeo in Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler.

In the Fall of 2024, UNMAM issued an open call for students to create works on paper (drawing, prints, photographs) in response to Helen Frankenthaler’s prints for the Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler exhibition. Interested applicants were invited to respond to Frankenthaler’s use of color, philosophy, technique, or materials. 

Three students were selected: Adrian Ricca Lucci (BFA student in painting and drawing), Brianna Tadeo (third-year MFA student in photography), and Yoma Wilson (second-year MFA student in printmaking).

Listen to artist Brianna Tadeo discuss the creation of River Rock / Shadow, 2024, on display in Push & Pull.