A Common Thread: The Fall 2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition
November 6, 2010 - November 18, 2010
The CU Art Museum and the Department of Art & Art History present A Common Thread, the Fall MFA 2010 Thesis Exhibition, held in the Projects Gallery of the new CU Art Museum building, part of the Visual Arts Complex on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.
About the artists:
Helene Baribeau (printmaking) Helene Baribeau mines vernacular archives of family photographs to weave personal narrative and explores how memory is anchored to the idea of social, cultural, and geographic place. Her work embraces the duality that photographs reveal yet also conceal. Using thread, tea and various natural materials, she coaxes the images into revealing the effects of time and the ephemeral nature of remembrance.
Jonathan Nicklow (printmaking) Jonathan Nicklow's art crosses a variety of mediums and artistic categories. His current work is based on his visual fairy tale titled "The Rabbit Who Married The Bear." Jonathan utilizes printmaking, painting and drawing, film, photography, ceramics, fiber arts, hand and machine stitching, sound art, installation, and his own body to make bold statements and lasting impressions.
Lindsay Pichaske (ceramics) Lindsay Pichaske creates figurative sculptures and installations that reside in the space between what is familiar and strange, beautiful and repugnant, alive and dead. Her "animals" suggest a surreal world where surfaces and forms are not always what they seem. Artificial flower petals mimic fur and human hair articulates inner musculature. In this world, species distinctions are blurred, as the animal becomes human, and the human becomes animal.
Exhibition /
A Common Thread: The Fall 2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition
November 6, 2010 - November 18, 2010
Helene Baribeau mines vernacular archives of family photographs to weave personal narrative and explores how memory is anchored to the idea of social, cultural, and geographic place. Her work embraces the duality that photographs reveal yet also conceal. Using thread, tea and various natural materials, she coaxes the images into revealing the effects of time and the ephemeral nature of remembrance.
Jonathan Nicklow's art crosses a variety of mediums and artistic categories. His current work is based on his visual fairy tale titled "The Rabbit Who Married The Bear." Jonathan utilizes printmaking, painting and drawing, film, photography, ceramics, fiber arts, hand and machine stitching, sound art, installation, and his own body to make bold statements and lasting impressions.
Lindsay Pichaske creates figurative sculptures and installations that reside in the space between what is familiar and strange, beautiful and repugnant, alive and dead. Her "animals" suggest a surreal world where surfaces and forms are not always what they seem. Artificial flower petals mimic fur and human hair articulates inner musculature. In this world, species distinctions are blurred, as the animal becomes human, and the human becomes animal.