• Verdant
• Edifice Amiss
• Shahzia Sikander
• Selections 11
• Flourish: Alumni Works on Paper
• MFA Thesis Show '11
• astatic
• Inside The Painter's Studio

• Graphic Intervention
• William Kentridge
• MFA Thesis 10
• Selections 10
• Alec Soth
• Mary McFadden
• The Midway Show
• 2009 B(oNE) Show

• MFA Thesis I
• MFA Thesis II
• MFA Thesis III
• Figuratively Seeing
• R. Crumb's Underground
• 2008

MFA Thesis III

MFA Thesis Shows III features the work of graduating Masters of Fine Arts students from various disciplines and diverse backgrounds. The exhibition, on view in the Bakalar and Paine Galleries, is a multi-media showcase that includes film, video, painting, drawing, printing, sculpture, installation, and photography. Included in the this exhibition are Hilary Alder, Hong-Duck Chae, Lenka Chludova, and Susan Freda.

Video: Lenka Chludova

Hilary Alder: My work is based in the subtle arts of logical systems, number, perspective, and optical illusion. In the making of drawings, prints, and (string) installations I explore how shapes and planes relate to one another in a given space.

Hong-Duck Chae: Gravity in Your Hands is an interactive installation that explores our human inability to grasp our own mortality. A 3D holographic video, an ice sculpture, an interactive video, and a performance create a surreal experience as viewers watch a body made of ice wrapped with Korean traditional funeral suit slowly melt and disperse into colored water.

Lenka Chludova: "Misplaced Survival." This series of artwork is driven by a question of how is it possible to maintain our humanness in society, which has such demands, that much of our lifetime is spent in rush and anxiety? My artwork researches an alternative to the contemporary condition and suggests that through interconnecting our multiple levels-the intellectual, emotional, bodily, subconscious and unconscious-we may be equipped with a decisive intelligence to act and a capability to formulate our own conceptions of a fulfilling life. The show consists of interactive sound installations, interactive videos, sound pieces, and live performance.

Susan Freda: By combining industrial and natural materials with forms based from the micro/macro world of nature and from those of my body, I am building hybrid organisms. The provisions of these resources depend on the industrial, medical, architectural, electronic, insulated, and plumbed environments that society has built. The artwork has a parasitic relationship to society, it grows from what humankind has wasted or overlooked.

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