MFA Thesis Catalog

spring 2022

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Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Turner Gallery, & Online Below

MFA exhibitions from the Division of Ceramic Art (CA), Electronic Integrated Arts (EIA) and Sculpture / Dimensional Studies (SDS) are held on campus.  Painting MFA Alfred/Düsseldorf exhibitions will be held in Germany this spring, and a selection of work will be on view in the summer months in our galleries.

Exhibition receptions will be held on Saturdays from 6-8pm, with the exception of the last exhibition, which will open on Friday. An online catalog of graduate student work is posted here usually a week after commencement.

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Online Catalog

With the installation of handbuilt ceramic objects, I create my own world in order to reexamine the world in which we live. The work is built on a large scale to consume the viewer, creating a magnetism. I approach heavy topics using humor creating esthetic distance. With recognizable objects and abstract forms used as symbols, and my use of scale to distort perspectives, I create a deeply saturated color that emphasizes this hyperreality to entrance the viewer.

Tony Baker

Ceramic Art

Throughout my practice, I have been researching how to express the ways in which environment, culture and society make an impact both internally and externally. I examine the powerful cultural, political, and socio-economic...

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three works on white wall

Emma Barnes

Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting

Surface is a topsoil, an epidermal layer inviting us to wonder what is beneath and what came before. Likewise, painting is what we read on the outermost layer, an exterior where we pause to consider the residue of the brush...

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an arrangement of items. To the left features a rectangular object with white and blue marbling. A sponge-like item rests on top. To the right features a plum-colored bowl stand containing white half and quarter circles. A honey-colored, glass square sits in the foreground of the space.

Margeaux Claude

Ceramic Art

Design generates utility, self-expression, and joy, reflecting both culture and the individual creator. I contemplate metaphors of permanence and change through the manipulation of method and materials, namely clay, scagliola,...

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A 2 foot wide bulbous Moon Jar with Green Glaze sits on an assembled honeycomb of hexagonal blocks that look geologically weathered

Katie Fee

Ceramic Art

Candidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.

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a large, pink, rectangular tile piece of a geometric design featuring green dots in the middle

Jackie Head

Ceramic Art

I create wall installations crafted from slip-cast porcelain components that are designed utilizing a myriad of pattern making methods. These installations are reminiscent of wall tapestries, mandalas, quilts, tiles, and...

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An installation shot of the painting His Map (to the left) with two people (to the right) walking into Siennie Lee’s installation room. From the angle of the photo, looking into the installation room, one can see several transparent painted chiffon (with black, pink, orange, green, blue, and purple ink brushstrokes) hanging from the ceiling. Some touching the floor, touch cut off in the middle of the air. Looking at His Map, the first layer is a wash of lime green (yellow green) and light purple on gessoed canvas. following the flow from the center right expanding out to the left. A very faint wash of white is painted on top following the same flow. The sanded gesso adds a texture to the wash, showing fine creases of white gesso. On the bottom and to the center right is a shape with clean taped edges, creating a slight raise of surface. The shapes are made up of pastel cobalt blue (purple tone cool blue) with pastel lime green shapes. A white wavy grid is painted on top. The combination of the blue, green, and white grids mimic a strange view of earth from space.

Nina Yushan Lai

Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting

Nina Yushan Lai’s painting and printmaking practices use memories as the material to embrace the uniqueness of self through understanding repetition and iteration. Her works reflect her experience as a growing child...

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Installation work of colorful improvised drawings on six chiffon fabrics and a wall

Siennie Lee

Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting

I have led a relatively comfortable life in South Korea. I attended a well-renowned institution, receiving both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in oriental painting, and was recognized for holding...

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