University of Oregon Department of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog
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Date
2021
Authors
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
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University of Oregon
Abstract
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.
Description
28 pages
Keywords
sculpture, photography, drawing, design