Parsons Fine Arts is pleased to announce its 2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Matter As Fallen Light, curated by Kaegan
Sparks on view from April 22nd- May 5th
The exhibition is open to the public and on view in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s ground floor exhibition spaces, encompassing both the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery and the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, and extending into adjacent corridors, windows, and entrances, and beyond to the building’s exterior and street. Sightlines yield a mutating object theater of blued steel, whorled paper, fired clay, lathed wood, cascading cable, rhinestones, textiles, twine, even a 1969 Lincoln Continental—and, of course, electronic and projected light.
The twenty-seven practices of this year’s graduating cohort defy a single rubric, yet together manifest more than the sum of their parts. Returning to their studios and each other’s company as the pandemic’s restrictions recede, many artists approach space and presence, whether physical or virtual, with new urgency. A surplus of sculpture and installation, as well as painting, photography, drawing, video, and interactive digital media, finds points of intersection in the exhibition around memory and ritual, whether personal, cultural, or institutional; translation, both linguistic and technological; physical infrastructures, economic abstractions, and ecological interdependencies. Circumstantial though their assembly might be, these works and their makers conjure momentary coalitions as much as they play to the contradictions between them.
For more details, please follow the link to view the MFA 2023 Thesis website:
https://amt.parsons.edu/finearts/2023-mfa-thesis/
