Upcoming art exhibition  - sacra privata

Marie Bukowski and Nicholas Bustamante, School of Art faculty, will be exhibiting work in painting and printmaking.  Their work explores personal identity through symbolic and representational imagery creating universal narratives.  Though different in their approaches to making art, Bukowski and Bustamante use metaphors of time and space to search for a universal language with an individualized meaning for the viewer to interpret. 

Kevin Kennedy, School of Art faculty, will exhibit work in sculpture in a variety of media.  His work can be seen as self-portraits, defining a specific emotion or a moment in time.  While Kennedy's work is fragile in nature, there is an inner strength that reveals empowerment.
The 2nd Year MFA Exhibition will include work in a variety of media.  Students will exhibit work in photography, painting, drawing, and digital imagery.  The 2nd Year MFA candidates are Andy Bloxham, Joshua Chambers, Ann Gassen, and Kathleen Tumey.

The 1st Year MFA Exhibition will include work through a range of styles and media.  Students will explore ideas through digital imagery, photography, painting, and drawing.  The 1st Year MFA candidates are Tonny Canales, Blake Norris, Kris Roy, Ani Volkan, David Wang, and Amy Zell. 

The undergraduate drawing and painting exhibition will explore ideas through a variety of materials and concepts.  Artists are honing their technical skills while they explore/exploit ideas through analysis and image development and redefine their personal visions through aesthetic form and conceptual contexts. 

The student exhibition in sculpture will include work that explores materials with a creative approach to individual experimentation.  These studio projects emphasize techniques, aesthetics, and conceptual ideas while they are asked to consider the ramifications of their work on a local, social, and universal level.  

The BFA Photography Exhibition will include work associated with the photographic medium.  This exhibit will demonstrate an artist’s ability to concentrate on one area of interest through investigative exploration of imagery and technique.  These students have acquired a critical awareness of seeing while embracing new and established technologies through the history of photography.  
 

Event	Date	Artists
Chroma	March 12 - May 25, 2007	Stehpanie Carwile, Wes Johnson, Joshua Chambers, Rachel Atkin, etc.
sacra privata	September 14 - October 5, 2007	Marie Bukowski, Nicholas Bustamante
	October 12 - November 2, 2007	Kevin Kennedy
	November 9 - January 19, 2008	2nd Year MFA Candidates
	January 25 - February 15, 2008	1st Year MFA Candidates
	February 22 - March 21, 2008	Undergraduate drawing/painting
	March 28 - April 24, 2008	Wood sculpture and casting
	May 2 - May 23, 2008	BFA Photography Candidates

                                          

Artists:

Marie Bukowski, Associate Professor of Art, Graduate Coordinator, Studio Program Coordinator:
My work references landscape, biological and chemical compounds, text and numerical systems derived specifically from scientific events and mathematical graphs. By interjecting text and numbers, I want to engage the viewer in an intellectual dialogue, rather than simply guiding them across an aesthetic surface. Metaphors of time and structure act as a visual aesthetic to express a complicated sense of space and exploration. I use these references as a means to search for an order, but not an order with specific systems and constraints. I look for an order that is true to depicting the experience. There is a systematic space in my work, but at the same time, an uncertainty within the space. The use of lines and planes accomplish this uncertainty; this type of framework depletes the very inference of the structure. I want no measurable point related to these forms. Instead, they indicate constant flux. It is my ultimate goal to create a work of art that is not beautiful, but something that remains as a true experience as felt.

Nicholas Bustamante, Assistant Professor of Art:
What started as an exploration into abstraction has evolved into complex, non-linear narratives that are constructed from a series of metaphors, symbols, and personal icons. Through the use of various shelter structures, the work explores ideas of protection, confinement, and an investigation into how we construct our personal space. The paintings reinterpret events in my personal life in a way that allows the viewer to create their own story based on the connection and slippage between these systems. As a painter, I strongly believe that personal narratives have the ability to communicate to the viewer on a deeper level, as the work begins to break through everyday generalizations and tap into a greater universal truth. All of the images and abstract forms in the paintings are grounded in research and are used as a tool to construct these narratives. Symbols are inter-twined and woven within the paintings surface, often to be covered up, moved, and later exposed. This physical application of paint then becomes a compulsive means of recording and documenting the passage of time, allowing the viewer to experience the history of the work. The dialogue that is created within the paintings is as important as the finished product. I consider the work to be a contemporary extension of the rich tradition of narrative painting.

Kevin Kennedy, Associate Professor of Art:
The objects I create mirror my own history. I work from the familiar, what is drawn from my very center. It is difficult to say if my practice is therapy or distraction. I like to busy myself, letting my hands occupy my mind, or my mind occupy my hands.In many instances, my work evolves through error. I find myself tearing works apart and rebuilding them, often working on several pieces at once. This way of working reflects how I've lived my life. I perpetually sought change, unknown places and the freedom of motion.Along the way, the motion that occupied my hands and mind gave me freedom. The finished object washes that away. Yet, I recognize that the completed object holds a bit of truth, a lesson. And the reason for beginning is the reason for end.