The Bay Area MFA Show is back!
The third iteration of this exhibition showcases the work of recent graduates from the Bay Area's leading MFA programs.
April Camlin’s (University of California, Davis) monumental woven sculptures directly respond to her experience of inhabiting a changing body and a changing Earth. Exploring interior places, where memories are held within the body, April employs the meditative processes of weaving, casting, and singing to access personal, generational, and collective histories. Using minerals, dirt, wax, fiber, ceramics, and plant matter, April’s work asserts her connection to the life force that animates and unites all beings.
Leah Koransky (San Francisco State University) works between photography, collage, and printmaking to explore the precarious relationship between place and self. Interested in our connection to the larger cycles of the earth and how we attach meaning and magic to these daily phenomena, Leah’s work explores remnants, recurrence, and our connection to space and time. Using materials such as paper, tape, plaster, and rocks, Leah’s compositions offer an interplay between objects, sunlight, and shadows, revealing something elemental and transitory about a time and a place.
Nivedita Madigubba (University of California, Berkeley) is curious about the collision of different knowledge systems brought on by colonization and the social, economic, and political forms they take today. Her practice views the products of cultural processes as materials that embody memories, reframing them and visualizing counternarratives in immersive re-created environments. A student of Vedānta philosophy, Nivedita uses her art practice to question what is being (un)learned, translated, and forgotten when studying Vedānta through its English translations.
The two- and three-dimensional work of Willow (陈柳静) (California College of the Arts) explores the intersection of text and image within a visual language system. Delving into the complexities of visual language across diverse artistic media, Willow’s large-scale artworks employ metaphorical motifs such as drifting and anchoring to investigate the repetition of spaces and layers in human experience.
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