Name: Public Lecture: Alex Puz
Start: 2026-10-01T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-01T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Public Lecture: Alex Puz

Oct 1
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

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Overview

Join Cranbrook Academy of Art on Thursday, October 1 at 6pm for a free, public lecture with Visiting Artist Alex Puz. Puz’s painting practice focuses on color study, optics, and linear abstraction to explore the gap between emotion and cognition. Puz’s process-oriented painting practice systematizes color and line, resulting in dense, ornate chromatic fields. He is currently based in Baltimore, MD.

Alex Puz is a 2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Nominee and 2022 recipient of the YPEI Teaching Fellowship. He has taught at Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of New Haven. He was a Cohort 05 Studio Fellow in Titus Kaphar’s NXTHVN fellowship in New Haven, CT and participated in the 2025 Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York City.

His work has been written about in Vogue Magazine, The Yale Daily News, liveart.io, and New American Paintings. His work is included in the collection of The U.S. Department of State, JP Morgan Chase, and Yale Health. Selected exhibitions include "This is Not a Retreat" at The Ford Foundation (NYC), "Double Down" at The Campus (NY), "Vibrant Matters" at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (NYC), "Elán Vital" at MoCA CT, "Spirit Rift" at Underdonk (NYC), and "Forgetting is Remembering" in Seoul, Korea with Gallery Simon.