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Video: Ana Vizcarra Rankin (MFA '12) on her Work in the PAFA Exhibition "Taking Space"

Artist Ana Vizcarra Rankin graduated from the Master of Fine Art program in 2012. She received the Judith McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize at the Annual Student Exhibition in May 2012 for her work Global Optimization Diagram. The painting is on view at the museum in “Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale.“

Page image: “Taking Space” installation view with, from left to right, Ellen Harvey "Mirror"; Ana Mendieta "Untitled"; Ana Vizcarra Rankin "Global Optimization Diagram."

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