"Ephemera" highlights a diverse selection of artwork that explores the duality of transience and permanence through a rich variety of techniques and themes. The exhibition features School of Art students Matthew Constant, Ariana Daly, October Donoghue, Andrew Edwards, and Summer Leavitt.
Created within the current political tumult, new works by the 2018 CMU School of Art MFA candidates examine pop culture fantasies of entertainment, capital, and collapse.
"Familiar Terrain" is a multimedia show by School of Art sophomore Ema Furusho that explores surfaces of the human body as well as the materials we use to embellish it.
Emotional (Re)location, a solo exhibition by MFA Candidate Talya Petrillo, uses sentimentality and satire to question the mental space of loss, acceptance and moments of insanity.
Francis Stark’s deeply autobiographical practice centers on the mediation of self and the intimate spaces of communication. Her work spans many media including drawing, photography, video, collage, and mixed media painting, often combining text and imagery.
Thinking In Place, an installation by Clelia Knox BHA '20, borrows its name from a similarly titled book by Carol Becker, which has, in the past year, provided me with some gentle guidance on what it means to bring the often heated, intimate fragments of my memories outside of my self.
Jenny Odell's work combines the mining of online imagery with writing and research, usually in an attempt to highlight the material nature of our modern networked existence.
"Each/Other" is an exhibition about advocacy and inclusion curated by Shori Sims BFA '21 and Aisha Dev BDes '19.
"A Perfect Home" addresses the entanglement of the domestic with femininity, queer identity, nostalgia, and subversive love.
Robb Hernández's forthcoming book, "Finding AIDS: Archival Body/Archival Space and the Chicano Avant-garde," examines the role of gender and sexual transgression in the formation of Chicano art.