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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MICA presents the M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
Ethereal Heist
April 13 – 22, 2007
Decker, Meyerhoff and Fox 3 Galleries,
Fox Building, Maryland Institute College of Art
Reception: Friday, April 13, 6–9pm
Website: www.etherealheist.com
The Maryland Institute College of Art proudly presents
the work of eleven of its Master of Fine Arts
candidates in Ethereal Heist, April 13–22.
Encompassing the work of artists from four of MICA’s
graduate programs the show presents a wide range of
media including painting, photography, performance,
video, sculpture and installation. The work is the
culmination of two years of inquiry and
experimentation by a group of emerging artists:
Ramsay Barnes, Hoffberger School of Painting — Barnes
uses boyhood ephemera to address issues of personal
identity. Working in a combination of collage,
photography, drawing and painting, his multiple media
offerings attempt to reveal the multiplicity of human
experience.
Lesly Deschler Canossi, Graduate
Photography and Digital Imaging — Re-examining
institutional archives with her camera, Deschler
Canossi’s work addresses the compulsion to collect and
the relationship this impulse has with photography.
Kelly Egan, Graduate Photography and
Digital Imaging — The technological acceleration of
culture and its effects lie at the center of Egan’s
efforts. A blur of information, his photographs scan a
rapidly shifting landscape, leaving a specter of form
and distance.
Michael Hurst, Mt. Royal School of Art —
Referencing pop art tradition, Hurst’s paintings
challenge the viewer to see past romanticized notions
of urban culture. Poking fun at the fantasies
generated by these incomplete impressions, his use of
high-octane color and graphic line serve as a
substitution for what has been left unsaid.
Stuart Jackson, Hoffberger School of
Painting — Moving between classic mythology, personal
narrative, and contemporary catastrophe, Jackson’s
paintings address how history is built on both truth
and falsehood.
Jodi Lieburn, Mt. Royal School of Art —
Inspired by theatre, Lieburn uses installation,
performance and photography to craft scenes from
discarded materials.
Jackson Martin, Rinehart School of
Sculpture — The collaboration between natural and
cultural elements is the core of Martin’s work.
Utilizing steel, glass, wood, plants, soil and water,
he melds order and control with the uncertain and the
unpredictable.
Nathaniel Rogers, Hoffberger School of
Painting — Rogers re-introduces the American
middle-class through his subversive combination of
scenic elements. He forces the mundane and the bizarre
together in small-scale, detailed oil paintings. The
result is a socially critical expression of basic
interaction, morality, and value, which survives,
frozen in time, safe from pending disaster.
Michael Sandstrom, Mt. Royal School of Art
— Sandstrom’s mixed-media works investigate how an
individual’s perspectival reality is influenced by
societal group consciousness. Treating memory as a
cultural rather than an individual faculty,
Sandstrom's works challenge us to reconsider what our
perceptions of reality truly signify.
Won-Sun Shin, Mt. Royal School of Art —
Shin’s work employs a variety of forms and media to
address a range of cultural themes and influences.
Her explorations and research strive to make bridges
between feminism, pop culture and dreams.
Elizabeth Wade, Hoffberger School of
Painting — Elizabeth Wade’s paintings confront the
anxiety generated by American media culture by
addressing the internal world of the individual. In
her work, initial readings of childlike naiveté peel
back to reveal layers of savage eroticism, tenderness,
aggression, humor, and loneliness beneath.
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