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Above: Erica Dincalci / Kelly Xi / Luke Agada / Gigi Gastevich / Izzy Cho / Sage Dye / Cassidy Skillman / Linye Jiang 67 MFA students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will present their work next month at SAIC Galleries in the first of two graduate exhibitions. Graduate Exhibition One will run 1-8 March and features MFA students from across the disciplines showing their final projects. Printmedia, photography, body and garment, fiber and material studies plus art and technology studies are all present in the first show. Erica Dincalci (Fiber and Material Studies) weaves and knits with silk gauze, acrylic yarn and fabric scraps as well as other materials in a broad spectrum of vivid colours. By experimenting with different ways of weaving the fabric, Dincalci wants to evoke nostalgic memories of ’ sun-soaked wildflowers, California hippie culture of my parents’ generation, and silk scarves from kindergarten playtime.’ ’I create these atmospheres of saturated color to elicit joy and brighten my engagement with challenging personal experiences held within the work. The material softness of the silk, cloth, and yarn are an invocation for gentle, care, and resiliency within the self.’
Kelly Xi (Art and Technology studies) combines 3D printed ceramics with neon lights: ’ I harness the ultraviolet wavelengths to encourage the activity of microorganisms such as diatom algae and cyanobacteria metabolizing in waterways and soil.’ Luke Agada is a Nigerian artist whose painting practice examines themes of globalization, migration, and cultural dislocation within the framework of a postcolonial world and its impact on neo-cultural evolution. Within this exhibtion, Luke works in oil, photo transfers and gold leaf. Gigi Gastevich is the Wilson/Livingstone Fellow in the Fiber & Material Studies department. With a background in photography background, Gigi makes labor-intensive, tactile renderings of found online photographs, examining relationships between the thread and the byte; the hand and the algorithm; and the individual and Big Tech. Her work in this exhibition utilizes the TC2 Jacquard loom, a machine whose ancestry is intimately linked to the origins of binary computing. Izzy Cho (Printmedia) is inspired by the superstitions they inherited from their Korean family background: ’ Using print and sculpture, I transform representational objects and rituals through scale shifts and repetition to make relational statements between the object/ritual and the supposed supernatural “output” it is supposed to project.’ Body and Garment student Sage Dye works with handmade textiles sourced from family, friends, mentors and markets to create textile pieces that examine domesticity and feminism. Dye’s work includes a dress made of secondhand doilies, a jumpsuit constructed from stuffed animals and shorts made from a mixture of doilies, vintage aprons and deadstock yarn. Cassidy Skillman (Printmedia) created the Closed For Restoration project, a series of litho photomontages and woodcuts that critique the level of transparency behind US art institutions. Skillman explains: ’Hidden beyond fine art, museums can be an aesthetic front to massive investments from arguably corrupt systems such as extraction, detention facilities and art crimes. For this reason it is imperative we recognize that the success of most large-scale cultural institutions has deceptively contributed to exploitation.’ Photography student Linye Jiang takes the slang word ’fruit’, historically used as an insult against gay and queer men and explores Chinese and Western queer culture through a series of still life photos. ’I want these modified fruits to open the audience to a sense of curiosity and introduce a phenomenon that is easily overlooked via photographic imagery. I re-symbolize the fruit as it becomes a material that I can create, give meaning, and use to complete my imagination of queer life. I project my fetishes, my rages, my desires, my fears into the fruit portrait.’ Visit SAIC Galleries March 01-08 and see the SAIC website to see all the exhibiting students. |
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Above: Erica Dincalci / Kelly Xi / Luke Agada / Gigi Gastevich / Izzy Cho / Sage Dye / Cassidy Skillman / Linye Jiang
67 MFA students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will present their work next month at SAIC Galleries in the first of two graduate exhibitions.
Graduate Exhibition One will run 1-8 March and features MFA students from across the disciplines showing their final projects. Printmedia, photography, body and garment, fiber and material studies plus art and technology studies are all present in the first show.
Erica Dincalci (Fiber and Material Studies) weaves and knits with silk gauze, acrylic yarn and fabric scraps as well as other materials in a broad spectrum of vivid colours. By experimenting with different ways of weaving the fabric, Dincalci wants to evoke nostalgic memories of ’ sun-soaked wildflowers, California hippie culture of my parents’ generation, and silk scarves from kindergarten playtime.’
’I create these atmospheres of saturated color to elicit joy and brighten my engagement with challenging personal experiences held within the work. The material softness of the silk, cloth, and yarn are an invocation for gentle, care, and resiliency within the self.’
Kelly Xi (Art and Technology studies) combines 3D printed ceramics with neon lights: ’ I harness the ultraviolet wavelengths to encourage the activity of microorganisms such as diatom algae and cyanobacteria metabolizing in waterways and soil.’
Luke Agada is a Nigerian artist whose painting practice examines themes of globalization, migration, and cultural dislocation within the framework of a postcolonial world and its impact on neo-cultural evolution. Within this exhibtion, Luke works in oil, photo transfers and gold leaf.
Gigi Gastevich is the Wilson/Livingstone Fellow in the Fiber & Material Studies department. With a background in photography background, Gigi makes labor-intensive, tactile renderings of found online photographs, examining relationships between the thread and the byte; the hand and the algorithm; and the individual and Big Tech. Her work in this exhibition utilizes the TC2 Jacquard loom, a machine whose ancestry is intimately linked to the origins of binary computing.
Izzy Cho (Printmedia) is inspired by the superstitions they inherited from their Korean family background: ’ Using print and sculpture, I transform representational objects and rituals through scale shifts and repetition to make relational statements between the object/ritual and the supposed supernatural “output” it is supposed to project.’
Body and Garment student Sage Dye works with handmade textiles sourced from family, friends, mentors and markets to create textile pieces that examine domesticity and feminism. Dye’s work includes a dress made of secondhand doilies, a jumpsuit constructed from stuffed animals and shorts made from a mixture of doilies, vintage aprons and deadstock yarn.
Cassidy Skillman (Printmedia) created the Closed For Restoration project, a series of litho photomontages and woodcuts that critique the level of transparency behind US art institutions. Skillman explains: ’Hidden beyond fine art, museums can be an aesthetic front to massive investments from arguably corrupt systems such as extraction, detention facilities and art crimes. For this reason it is imperative we recognize that the success of most large-scale cultural institutions has deceptively contributed to exploitation.’
Photography student Linye Jiang takes the slang word ’fruit’, historically used as an insult against gay and queer men and explores Chinese and Western queer culture through a series of still life photos. ’I want these modified fruits to open the audience to a sense of curiosity and introduce a phenomenon that is easily overlooked via photographic imagery. I re-symbolize the fruit as it becomes a material that I can create, give meaning, and use to complete my imagination of queer life. I project my fetishes, my rages, my desires, my fears into the fruit portrait.’
Visit SAIC Galleries March 01-08 and see the SAIC website to see all the exhibiting students.
