Fall 2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

red and green brightly colored ceramic work

Image credit:听Roberta Restaino, detail of听Otherworldly Nature, 2016, ceramics and printmaking,听36" x 60" x 60".听Photo 漏 and courtesy the artist.

print depicting abstracted figure

Image credit: Kim Shively, Social Amenities, 2016, digital collage print, 11鈥 x 17鈥, Photo 漏 and courtesy the artist.

deatil of a work made with tea bags

Image credit:听Ariana Kolins, (untitled), 2016, collected tea bags and tea bag strings, dimensions vary, Photo 漏 and courtesy the artist.

oil painting of a doll house

Image credit: Emily Quinn, A Doll鈥檚 House (After Ibsen), 2016, oil on canvas, 72鈥 x 57鈥, Photo 漏 and courtesy the artist.

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition听

November 5听- 17, 2016

Artists featured:听Ariana Kolins, Emily Quinn, Roberta Restaino, Kim Shively.
Ariana Kolins鈥 socially-engaged practice examines community exchange, emotional labor,听and representation. Through collecting mundane objects and enacting repetitive gestures, she records her experiences and questions the function of the archive, while advancing a convivial and laborious program. Emily Quinn鈥檚 large-scale paintings interiorizes the fragility of domestic spaces.听She uses muted colors and elevated vantage points, highlighting the indeterminable threshold between security and uncertainty.听Roberta Restaino works at the intersection of printmaking and ceramics. Extracting subtleties from the biological world, her investigation of the natural world can be characterized as aesthetic and ontological. 听Kim Shively explores Denver鈥檚 gentrification at its most poignant鈥攊n real time, we see residents who are 鈥渘ot ready,鈥 setting the stage for one 鈥渓ast party.鈥澨齌hrough hand-drawn maps and nametags, Shively orients us to those who have no choice but to 鈥渞ide it out,鈥 offering a dystopian collage of Denver鈥檚 past, present, and future.

鈥擟arrie Miller, Alexander Penn, and Sara Sisun