As part of the Tuesday Night Lecture Series (TNLS) BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents a lecture with artist Dana Lok, organized by MFA Painting. Dana Lok (b. Berwyn, PA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings and drawings explore the visual possibilities of metaphors we use to understand concepts like knowledge, representation, language and time. Her works imbue these abstract ideas and their relations with light, color, weight and texture. In the development of these pictorial objects and spaces, she keeps an eye towards the contradictions that can surface in a close examination of visual forms that structure thought. Lok has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. Her recent solo exhibitions include “Closer to the Metal” at Clima Gallery, Milan (2023), “Part and Parse” at Miguel Abreu, New York (2022), “One Second Per Second” at Page, New York (2020), and “Words Without Skin” at Clima, Milan (2019). Lok recently participated in the group exhibitions “Darling, Your Head’s Not Right” at Francois Ghebaly, “Le Biscuit à Soupe”, at High Art, Arles, France, “Gravity, a proposal” at Sikkema Jenkins, New York, “15 Painters” at Andrew Kreps, New York. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, Frieze, and Cura Magazine. Lok received her MFA from Columbia University and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2018, she was awarded the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. She currently teaches at Columbia University. TNLS visiting artists are organized by SVA’s five MFA programs in Painting, Sculpture, Print Media & Photography, Graphic Design, and Visual Narrative. TNLS brings practicing artists, designers, and arts professionals to Boston University to present their work and meet with students for individual and group critiques and hands-on workshops. Lectures are free and open to the public.