Closing party during the downtown gallery crawl for 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.
Produced alongside the political theatre of 2017, "Highest Grossing Film: The Sequel" approaches issues of capital, entertainment, and collapse.
MFA Candidate KR Pipkin presents an exhibition of new drawings, sculpture, video, and generative work around the idea of digital water.
Upon coming across a home video that presents both his pregnant mother and the artist as a newborn, MFA Candidate Gary Swartzel acts as a drag character of his mother in order to queer his existence prior to birth.
87.5 to 107.9, 530 to 1710 presents new sculptures and paintings by Alex Lukas examining this space of breakdown
Upon coming across a home video that presents both his pregnant mother and the artist as a newborn, Gray Swartzel performs a slapstick drag persona of his mother in order to queer his existence prior to birth.
In CHROMINANCE, Webster imagines her mother’s brief time in the spotlight, rendering a black and white memory in full, chromatic brilliance.
MFA Candidate Shohei Katayama presents an immersive light installation around the ideas of impermanence and contamination.
In 2017, Erin Mallea spent three months at Old Economy Village (OEV) a regional museum and historic site to learn more about the living history of historic maintenance.
"The Sun Lies Heavy" is an exhibition by MFA Candidate of new scenes from an ongoing project presenting an alternative history of coal mingled with myths of forgotten forests, crawling proto-reptiles, and chthonic infernos as real-time virtual puppet theater.