BOSTON UNIVERSITY MFA SHOW
Amory Park @ Morgan Lehman Gallery July 14 – 30, 2022 Opening reception: Thursday, July 14 from 6-8pm AJ Rombach, Baoying Huang, Benjamin Hawley, Chen Peng, David Petrak, Eva Lewis, Emily Manning-Mingle, Gavin Fahey, Jason Lipow, Madeline Norton, Marie Wheeler, Meghan Murray, Sunny Moxin Chen, Oscar Morel, Samantha Goodale, Veronica Dannis-Dobroczynski This remarkable group of students started their MFA journey in the Fall of 2020, optimistic that the confusion and uncertainty of a global pandemic would soon fade. Although these hopes proved false, these artists persevered in their studios and classes and continued to learn, expand, make, break, scream, cry, laugh, sigh, and wonder what it even means to make art in this moment. After the tumult and uncertainty of the past two years, they realize that they are re-entering a landscape that has fundamentally shifted. They have negotiated the tension between the immersive material demands of their individual projects and the increasingly relentless exigencies of the public sphere. In short, they have encountered a particularly acute version of the age-old challenge: to make work of one’s own that feels both true and urgent. Veracity and urgency are embedded in the materials they chose to handle, the images they chose to create, the subjects they chose to depict, and the structures they chose to build. What are the boundaries of identity? Are there new ways to depict the human body? How does one expand conventions and traditions? What does it mean to be radical? How does one structure freedom? How does one make the invisible visible? These students consider these, and other questions, through the discipline of painting, with its friction-filled histories and porous parameters. As their faculty, it has been an honor to be a part of their journey and privy to their individual stories. The works in this exhibition reflect where each of the artists are today, and to where they may be heading. The strength of their efforts suggests an overwhelming potential that fills me with hope. -Lucy Kim Associate Professor of Art Interim Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting 2021-22 Boston University School of Visual Arts 526 West 26th Street, Suite 410 New York, New York 10001 Gallery Hours: Tue.-Sat. 11am-6pm Poster design by Baoying Huang
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Poster design by Stephen Proski "Veracity and urgency are embedded in the materials they chose to handle, the images they chose to create, the subjects they chose to depict, and the structures they chose to build. What are the boundaries of identity? Are there new ways to depict the human body? How does one expand conventions and traditions? What does it mean to be radical? How does one structure freedom? How does one make the invisible visible? These students consider these, and other questions, through the disciplines of painting and sculpture, and the friction-filled histories and porous parameters of each."
MFA 2022 Painting and Sculpture Thesis Exhibition (3D Virtual Tour) Thank you to everyone who came to the opening and has shown support from near and far!
Below is an excerpt from my thesis statement. "My paintings, prints, and projections of fire are both/and: comforting/fearful, weightless/heavy, beautiful/destructive, sharp/soft, contained/unbound. You look at the images, through them, and then, like reflective glass, they begin to look back at you. Light vibrates, flutters, and shimmers through transparent fibers and thin layers of ink, oil paint, and fabric dye. The rocks, bones, flowers, feathers, and other natural artifacts that I depict reflect my impulse to collect and order the objects around me in an attempt to better understand them." -Emily Manning-Mingle's MFA Thesis In the fall I submitted a proposal to create a public artwork to honor Helen Stevens as part of the A.R.R.O.W.S. program at Boston University. Helen Stevens was a chemist who, after graduating from Boston University with her A.B. degree in 1905, began working as an assistant to Prof. Lyman Newell, who founded the Chemistry department at BU in 1904. In 1921, Helen wrote a thesis called A scheme for the identification of the carbohydrates, which describes a series of tests that can be used to identify different types of sugars. In her thesis, Helen describes the different color reactions that occur when different elements are added to different types of sugars. I was interested in her research because I was simultaneously learning more about the chemistry of dye in my Fabric Dye elective. I was curious about the overlap between the chemistry tests that Stevens described in her thesis and the chemistry involved in dyeing different types of fabric and how I could visualize her work through art. At the end of February, I met with Professor Didem Vardar-Ulu to do a series of carbohydrate tests similar to those in Steven's thesis. (We decided not to do several of the experiments in Steven's thesis because they are now considered very toxic.) When I got to the lab, Professor Vardar-Ulu had set up the materials. I shadowed her teaching assistant as she showed me how to perform the first series of tests. Pictured above are the results from Tollen's Test (middle) and Chromic Acid Test and Iodoform Test (right). I soon got the hang of how the procedure worked, I started performing some of the tets on my own. On the left is an in-process photo of Barfoed's Test and on the right is a picture of Benetict's Test. We also did three types of Starch Tests. In the first one, I added a few drops of chromic acid to small samples of table salt, sugar, corn starch, bread flour, and milk powder. In the second starch test, I observed how the chromic acid effected cooked rice and a potato. In the third test, I observed how the chromic acid reacted to liquid solutions of glucose, fructose, lactose, and sucrose.
It was a lot of fun doing these carbohydrate tests and gaining first-hand knowledge about why certain carbohydrates react to certain elements. Stay tuned for my next steps related to this project! |
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