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    Department of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition 2018
    (University of Oregon, 2018) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Wurts, Alexander; Hughes, Laura; Wood, Natalie; Milner, Stephen
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    University of Oregon Department of Art MFA
    (University of Oregon, 2019) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Bjork, Aaron Whitney; Claybrook, Talon; Howell, Leah; Khan, Sumer Haseena; Miller, Daniel; Moignard, Neal; Parnes, Stephanie; Segapeli, Aja; Thompson, Kayla; Vaughn, Jen
    The Department of Art at the University of Oregon is pleased to present our 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, Oregon. Marking the culmination of three years of rigorous studio investigation and critical discourse, the ten artists in this exhibition engage a wide breadth of art making practices that build on and challenge the histories of painting, sculpture, photography, print media, craft and digital practices. The exhibition is the outcome of the expansive work undertaken by our graduates and their intellectual curiosity in looking deeply at the conditions prevalent and pressing in our world today. With dramatic shifts in practice over the past three years, this cohort of artists have created a tight-knit community through the exchange of ideas formed by extensive conversations with our nationally and internationally recognized faculty, visiting artists, critics and curators. For this catalog, we bring our MFA Graduates together with the PHD and MA students in the History of Art and Architecture Department to produce written reflections on the creative processes and concepts behind the works of our ten graduating artists. This collaborative initiative, made possible through the stellar organization of Professor Jenny Lin, highlights what we hope to accomplish in our academic and artistic life – gather together around contexts that matter and build connections that expand our subject positions. So, it is with great pride that we celebrate the final work created by our 2019 MFA graduates at the University of Oregon and we look forward to watching and cheering their creative endeavors yet to come.
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    University of Oregon Department of Art MFA Thesis
    (University of Oregon, 2020) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Walot, Doran; Talaei, Elnaz; Zhang, Junwei
    Although the University of Oregon has one of the oldest MFA programs in the country, this is the first time in its almost 100-year history that graduating students have not been able to present their work in a public exhibition. Certainly, this is not the way any of us imagined the year would go. Following executive orders in March to shelter in place due to COVID-19, our students were abruptly displaced from their studios, as well as their close-knit community of fellow artists. With the thesis show just weeks away, completing the work required multiple kinds of collaboration, solving unexpected logistical challenges, and working in the absence of their peers during the crucial final weeks. While navigating the dizzying pace of events that followed, this group of artists not only persevered, but they also triumphed. We are proud to present the thesis work of the 2020 MFA class in the pages that follow. Through deep introspection, hours of independent research and faculty critique, and an inspiring commitment to their studio work, each of these artists has developed a rich and complex project. While we cannot all be together in person to celebrate these accomplishments, we are proud to share and honor their projects here, from a distance.
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    University of Oregon Department of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog
    (University of Oregon, 2021) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Turner, Caroline; Anderson, Claire; DeVaughn, Devon; Evans, Eden V.; Molloy, Ian Sherlock; Ward, Nathan Alexander; Amini, Sajad; Reckling, Tannon
    Every spring our graduating MFA candidates’ work emerges and activates the Art Department and the College of Design with an ethos of possibility and insight. Their creative research of new knowledge, or the rearrangement of old knowledge, brings with it the sense that a new day is rising. The 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition culminates three years of independent research and experimentation by a cohort of eight artists whose various practices engage a broad range of inquiry, from expressions of the personal and diaristic to the examination and fictionalization of language, politics, and technology. While the world teetered this last year—fraught over the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, and political chaos these candidates focused on their practices as the world blurred. They’ve shaped new strategies to teach on-line, built new curriculum to communicate remotely, and cloistered in their studios articulating their practices all the while navigating crisis shared with the nation. As the pandemic ebbs I hope the MFA Graduates of 2021 move forward with a sense of not only a new day rising but a new world emerging.
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    UO Art 2017 MFA
    (University of Oregon, 2017) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Campbell, Andrew Douglas; Couch, Chelsea; Weng, Esther; Moore, Joe; Asahina, Lee; Hampton, Mandy; Morgan, Mary Margaret; Wallace, Meril; Linn, Ron
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of French literary critic and theorists Roland Barthes’ influential 1967 essay, The Death of the Author. In countless MFA critiques and seminars, artists have grappled with Barthes’ essay and its implications related to de-skilling, negation of authorial voice, and birth of the reader/viewer. Each of the nine artists included in the University of Oregon’s 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition undoubtedly addresses the viewer, challenging audiences to explore new ways of thinking about and moving in the world through infiltration, translation, and humor. Yet in all of the artworks presented, the viewer “is born” not at the expense and death of the author, but through a shared insistence on the importance of the relationship between artist and viewer, artistic presence, and/or the laying bare of the production apparatus.
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    UO Art MFA 2022
    (University of Oregon, 2022) Department of Art, University of Oregon; Cebere, Agnese; Lichucki, Caroline; Buzzee, Dana; Langley, Erin; Petkau, Hannah; Clarke, Kara; Herceg, Noelle; Stoll, Tyler
    Each year the terminal creative projects from our MFA candidates elevate and activate discourse and pleasure in the Art Department and across the College of Design with an ethos of fearless possibility. Their creative research of new knowledge, or the rearrangement of old knowledge, brings with it the sense that new texts have been penned, and new discourses activated. The University of Oregon MFA Art 2022 Exhibition culminates three years of independent research and experimentation by a cohort of eight artists whose various practices engage a broad range of inquiry, from expressions of the personal and diaristic to the examination and fictionalization of history, gender, magical thinking, cinema tropes, and the natural world. Over the last three years these candidates have navigated generational complexities while trying to transform their experiences and transcend the moment. This year marks the 99th year of the University’s MFA degree, making it one of the oldest programs in the country. As the program’s centennial moment approaches, we watch The MFA Graduates of 2022 realize their creative perspectives while challenging their audiences to view the world through a new lens.