Hivemind (a shape-shifting group of friends and collaborators including Megan Hayes, Anastasiya Gutnik, Taylor Paone, Adam DeSorbo, Rae Root, Joe Sussi, David Peña, Christian Alvarado, and many more).
You know that feeling? is rooted in genuine creativity that rejects the restrictions of art within institutionalized academia that creates unrealistic expectations and timelines. The participating artists: Sammy Grubman, Courtney McCall, and Amiya McInnis aim to reclaim that feeling of stimulation and satiation that comes with creating art within one’s own ability and temporal capacities. Within their works, they emphasize the emotions tied to the physical and mental process of creating art.
Nine Hours Ahead is a collection of work born from our shared experience living abroad in Siena, Italy. Through everyday journaling and painting, we recorded the sights, sounds, and emotions we were exposed to during our travels. Living in this hub of contemporary and historical art was an artist’s dream, and with this exhibit we invite the viewer to experience it with us. Represented are the artists Gavin Brister, Wilfred Lim, Mia Radostitz, and Hana Taylor.
“Peeper addresses the theme of private versus public in the relationship between the viewer and the artist. The participating artists represent their inner thoughts and deconstructed ideas in a material manner. We ask the viewer to consider how their own subjectivity informs their experience within the space. The artists represented in Peeper are Eva Morris, Annika Mayne, Sage Kosmala, Sayloren Wieche, and Seihwan Sean Park.”
“I Want to Suspend Disbelief” curated by 2nd year MFA Christian Alvarado featuring work by Abhishek Kulkarni, Chelsea Tan, Spencer Plumlee, and Christian Alvarado.
Where slugs convene in an orgy of reflective chrome. Where a concrete dome carries you across the ocean. Where a surfboard becomes stone, then falls to liquid. Where the floor you’ve been staring at all your life becomes a wall. Where metal returns to clay, and clay to metal. Where a technicolor table offers up the biggest worm you’ve ever seen.
Where the veil between sleeping and waking becomes a space of its own.
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2nd Year MFA Exhibition featuring artwork by Christian Alvarado, Ashley Campbell, Conner Gordon, Sydney Lee, Ellen O’Shea, and Noa Taylor.
