The exhibition features a wide range of
media, including painting, video,
sculpture, photography, and installation.
· Kevyn Bates describes his paintings as objective views of
lower-
and middle-class people, mainly single mothers and their households.
· His video installations, says Mike Benedetto, grew out of a
decision to be an artist while "wandering the wide stretches of wet
sand from one rotting sockeye salmon carcass to the next."
· Investigations by Audrey Preuss Blessman of child sexual
abuse
include a look at the mechanisms that keep incestuous situations and
their
stories concealed.
· Georg Burwick says his video and sound projects deal with
"sounds
and images present in the everyday occurrences that surround us. Through
the creation of a hyper-reality I am trying to bring these objects and
situations
into a new light."
· Large-format photographs by Jennifer Greenburg focus on
women
and their subcultures. She describes her series, "Doughnuts for
Dinner:
Single Grrls," as an examination of young women who are attempting
to assert their autonomy, despite opposing cultural and social
expectations.
· Martina Nehrling will show her 'dangerously' colorful
paintings
which draw momentary equivalences between figure and ground through her
use of color and spatial relationships.
· Digital and still photography by I. Carmen Quintana reflect
the body's imperfections.
· Movement through the vernacular, metropolitan landscape is
the focus of paintings by Clay Stauffer. The paintings explore the
illusory
nature of automobility.
· Anthony Titus derives paintings and sculptural installations
from cartoon animation.
· Geometric sculpture by Eric Tucker investigates
phenomenological
principles of flatness and illusory space.
"Butterflies and Other Monsters" is co-curated by Whitney
Rugg, curatorial intern, and Stephanie Smith, associate curator at the
David
and Alfred Smart Museum of Art.
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This exhibition is organized and sponsored by The
University
of Chicago MFA Program. It is the culmination of a two-year Master of
Fine
Arts program in the Committee on the Visual Arts at the University of
Chicago's
historic Midway Studios. Artists in this program work in on eor many
diciplines,
including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture,
installation,
performance, and video. Our inter-disciplinary approach to fine arts is
enhanced by a rigorous intellectual curriculum that takes advantage of a
great research university. It connects what we do as artists to what goes
on in the world. At the heart of the experience at Midway Studios is a
dialogue:
through individual and group discussion we reflect on what we have
created
to understand better our own motivations and to clarify and strengthen
our
art.
Applications due by January 15th of the year you wish to
begin studies.
For more information please contact:
Midway Studios, The University of Chicago, 6016 S.
Ingleside,
Chicago, IL 60637
773.753.4821
This exhibition is produced with the generous support of
the University of Chicago Visiting Committee on the Visual Arts,
the Division of the Humanities, and the David and Alfred
Smart Museum of Art.
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