A blend of homesickness, nostalgia and longing, “hiraeth” is a pull on the heart that conveys a distinct feeling of missing something irretrievably lost.
New work by Kate Montgomery and Gracie Rothering:
“Because I know that time is time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed faces and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again.”
― T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday
In his poem, Eliot rejects the idea that time and space are interlinked. However, in our exhibition “remains of the day,” we intend to see photography as the medium that provides evidence and traces, binding time and space together in its symbolic representation and indexical mediation.
Either the silent passage of people, water stains on the ground, or the delayed rays of a sinking sun, Xinyu sees his photographs not only as imprints of what has happened but also as the process when the transients turn into the eternal. In Xinyu’s photographic works, the perspective constantly shifts around the peripheries. Through his visual transformation, the mechanical time is disrupted in the process of recognizing “now,” thus forming a unique presence in time and space that negates temporality.
In Epistolary Anthology, photographs made of a single tree canopy along a prairie walking path hold space for free verse that meanders through moments of reflection and nostalgia. Entering a collaborative practice of momentary, focused explorations, Adam and Charlotte point towards the universal through life’s fragmented moments, but never fully arriving to a conclusion. The interest that fuels this collaborative work lies in constructing new wholes from gathered parts, seeking not to answer, but merely play with the question of what is unspoken.
In Pearl Road, Colton looks to the landscapes of his youth in Montana and Idaho to explore the metaphoric relationship between land and body from a personal queer perspective. Colton’s photographs confront the marks left in the landscape both psychologically and physically to subvert ideas around manifest destiny and resource extraction in the Western United States where solitude and escape coexist with heightened visibility.
“Nurtured Spaces is a multimedia exploration of belonging, resilience, and self-discovery. These spaces foster intimate conversations that encourage vulnerability and openness, allowing individuals to share their stories. Nurtured Spaces invites everyone to reflect, grow, and find a sense of community in their shared journeys.”
Miyako Barnett
Katie Springer
Luna Pelaez
Amelia Koh
Aubrey Jayne
2nd Year MFA Exhibition featuring work by:
E Franco Aguilar
Elri Friedman
Parisa Garazhian
Maryam Keshmiri
Afsaneh Javadpour
Yalda Eskandari
Something about the Body is an exhibition of ten sculpture students whose work investigates the human body as a subject and object. Their work, in turns, implicates our bodies as viewers and engages in the question of how to represent a body? Ideas that bounce around the room range from empathy and care to horror and brutality — sometimes all at once .
Karina Acuna
Carlos Anaya
Jacqueline Beecher
Peyton Forth
Elliot Hanson
Morgan Higgins
Archie Lawson
Hannah Oldham
Breanne Swindle
Breanna Waters
Pixelgarden’s AV CLUB is a collection of audio/visual pieces made by gradutating Art and Tech BFAs. The show indulges in nostalgia while simultaneously developing a prospective view into how we will understand audio and visual input. AV CLUB invites the notions of nature, nurture, art, and technology into conversation.
VIRGINIA BOUTWELL
CHLOE LEE
TALIA JEFFRY
ESTELLA PRYOR
KYLE SHAHALAMI
VALERY TSAI
“A casual show about bows.”
Ashley Campbell
Jens Pettersen
Noa Taylor
Sydney Lee
Ellen O’Shea
“Clusterf*ck encapsulates the relationship between collective memories and the obscurity of childhood. Our works represent the messy, disruptive, and ambiguous nature that takes upon self-discovery. Come in and immerse yourself in the mind of five unpredictable artists and their subjected realities.”
Calize Yepez
Bella Oliver-Steinberg
Tony Hooks
Mario Castro
Jonah Gomez Cabrera
Increasing suddenly, powerfully and intensely. SURGE is an uncontrollable growth and a breaking of 2 dimensions through an exploration of sculptural form. Emphasizing the process of creation and impermanence, we highlight surges of emotion and delve into the vastness of identity and human existence.
Niko Berger
Abhishek Kulkarni
Breanne Swindle
DEVRA RAYNE
SOFIA REIS
ELLYCE WHITEMAN
JACK BACA
SAM BROOKS
JOEY HEIDRICK
In the 2nd Year Exhibition “Over and over again”, five artists collectively explored the theme of repetition in their artistic expression. Such repetition does not only refer to the repetitive process of art labor, but also draws repetitive semiotics, materials and memories from shards of daily life. Through the process of repetition, the artworks refract those representations and emotions hidden behind the facade of social structure and converge them into a collective psychological inquiry for the audience to digest familiarity – like Freud wrote, “every finding of an object is in fact a refinding of it.”
On display September 26th-October 5th featuring work by Adam DeSorbo, Xinyu Liu, Kate Montgomery, Jens Pettersen, and Gracie Rothering.
