Opening reception: Thursday April 14, 5:00–8:00 pm
The Department of Fine Arts and UWAG present the first of two thesis exhibitions by MFA candidates from the graduate program in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. MFA Thesis gives the campus and community-at-large an opportunity to see the end result of two years of intensive research and studio production by emerging visual artists.
Gallery
One
Marianne
Burlew
Twinning
My installation affords space for contemplating the body’s unique sensory knowledge and its role in mediating perception. The exhibition consists of four stations that present sculptures in the form of furniture and textile objects, alongside videos that explore concepts of becoming through performance. Each work contains moments of co-creation, between the subjects within the works as well as between the artworks and the audience. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the objects and spend time moving from each station to the next in an active role of thinking and feeling.
Gallery
Two
Veronica
Murawski
Uncertain
Memory
Uncertain Memory features a series of figurative oil paintings on canvas and paper inspired by photographs from my family archive. My paintings are developed in stages; beginning with a process of mining and selecting specific images, which are then manipulated before being tested as studies on paper or translated to canvas. Focusing primarily on female figures I search for a sense of strangeness or ambiguity in each image—uncertainty about the figure’s actions or whereabouts in space. I mine this ambiguity to explore relationships between past and present, reflecting a personal need to establish a sense of identity and understanding of my family’s past as well as exploring the universal relationship we have to the photographic image.