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SUMMARY:Soft Opening: The Very Best Deserts on Planet Earth
DESCRIPTION:2018 & 2019 Master of Fine Arts candidates present “The Very Best Deserts on Planet Earth” in the School of Art’s annual First and Second Year MFA exhibition. “The Very Best Deserts” showcases new work by a diverse group of eleven emerging artists working in a range of methodologies\, conceptual frameworks\, and media. For gallery hours and more about the exhibition\, visit theverybestdeserts.info. \nOn view April 2 – April 23\, 2017\nSoft Opening: Sunday\, April 2\, 3-5pm\nClosing Party: Friday\, April 21\, 5:30–10pm in conjunction with the Cultural Trust’s monthly Gallery Crawl\nPittsburgh Cultural Trust’s 937 Gallery\n937 Penn Ave\, Pittsburgh PA\, 15222 \nAbout the Artists \nShobun Baile revives design histories and buried institutions.\nKatie Rose Pipkin produces printed material as books\, as well as digital work in software\, bots\, and games. They also make drawings by hand\, on paper.\nNick Crockett makes games with bodies.\nGray Swartzel works collaboratively with an artist he found through craigslist who serves as his surrogate mother. The documentation of their constructed mother/child exchange investigates biopolitics and the state of global currency in regard to the degradation of the patriarchal order.\nPaper Buck utilizes interdisciplinary approaches to traditional visual art mediums to critically engage contemporary social movement discourses\, investigate the intersections of familial and national mythologies\, and make visible the perpetuities of colonial processes within neoliberal capitalism.\nErin Mallea is currently advocating for the ethical memorialization and representation of a local oak tree.\nJisoo Yeo renders floors floorless by focusing on the idea of the impermanence of time-space.\nJoy Poulard Cruz fuses pop-cultural\, Afro-Caribbean and Western mythologies to cultivate unity between the familiar and unfamiliar.\nAlex Lukas examines the quasi-sacral figure within a secular\, souvenir-centric society.\nLee Webster makes work on American mourning and the perpetual pop-culture nostalgia machine.\nShohei Katayama explores the relationship between nature\, technology\, and the scientific forces that shape the human experience.
URL:https://art.cmu.edu/event/soft-opening-the-very-best-deserts-on-planet-earth/
LOCATION:973 Gallery\, 973 Liberty Ave\, Pittsburgh\, 15221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event MFA,Exhibitions,SOA
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