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SAIC SHOWS 2024 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS
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SAIC SHOWS 2024 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Low-Residency MFA Exhibition

July 8–28, 2024

SAIC Galleries, 33 E. Washington St.

Reception: July 13, 12:00–5:00pm

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Low-Residency MFA Exhibition 2024

 

Low-Residency MFA Exhibition is the culminating presentation of 24 MFA candidates in SAIC’s class of 2024 and an opportunity for them to present new and ambitious work to the public in SAIC Galleries.

This year, participating artists include Andrea Bruce, Zoë Cohen, Chloe Cusimano, Leah Dalton, Paula Damasceno, Yemaya Diethelm, Ann Marie Gould, Leah Del Harrison, Jiaqi Li, Jennifer Lord, Linda Marcus, Jim Maurer, Rebecca Morrello, Adrienne Jacobson Oliver, Leticia Pardo, Alejandra M Rivero, Mallory Rodrigue, Randi Shepard, Shannon Silva, Joel Silverman, Ann Wachter, Claire A. Warden, Jen Wohlner, and Patricia Zamarte.

 

Visiting SAIC Galleries

 

SAIC Galleries welcomes the SAIC community and members of the public to visit the galleries in person. Admission is free.

All visitors to SAIC Galleries must show a state-issued picture ID.

SAIC Galleries
33 E. Washington St.
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

*SAIC Galleries will also be open on Sunday, July 28, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

 

Low-Residency MFA Exhibition Team

 

Trevor Martin — Executive Director of Exhibitions

J. Gibran Villalobos – Independent Curator

Kelly F. Kaczynski — Assistant Director, Low-Residency MFA Program

Gemma Kim — Graduate Curatorial Assistant

Lucas Gómez-Doyle — Graduate Curatorial Assistant

Performances/Activations

 

Wednesday, July 17, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
SAIC Galleries
33 E. Washington St.

Featured artists:

To be announced!

Curatorial Statement

  

Evaluation.

The tumultuous nature of the current landscape shifts and is reshaped by the minute. Surges of information may ask us to reevaluate our positions, our advances, and our retreats. Delicate situations require increasingly more nuanced details elevating our trepidation as we grapple with daily life.

In artwork, artists present us parallel visions of the world. They reflect on surrounding perspectives and modify them to see historic and geographic patterns–generative information. At times, they present us with speculative histories and narratives. They prompt the question “what if…” not just to wonder, but perhaps to give us an idea, a rehearsal of what we will encounter when we confront the next challenge. The artists in this exhibition provide models, templates, scripts of how we evaluate how we make decisions. In the exhibition you find the simulation of how an artist has developed a residency program for other artists, you see a glimpse of war photography, you see the blueprint and the imprint of the architecture of a house, or you may find reassembled garment sewing patterns. These are all forms that allow us to measure, trace, and interrogate our lived histories and provide a better way to evaluate what is yet to come.

In this exhibition, you will find the work produced by the Low-Residency MFA students who are continually transforming their approach to an education in the arts. Their take on creation is one that is resilient, adaptable, and able to modify–all key strategies for the uncertainty of the future. I hope you will take the time to consider what and how artists ask you, as a viewer and participant, to evaluate your choices. Certainly take the time to challenge and champion them– Ideas are invaluable at a time when it is all hands and ears on deck.

J. Gibran Villalobos





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