MFA THESIS EXHIBITION | even

May 16 - 19, 2012

Logan Center Gallery

This inaugural series of MFA Exhibitions at the Logan Center Gallery featured work that encompassed a wide array of artistic practices and genres; at once keenly in-tune with the field of contemporary art and informed by a broad understanding of art history and culture.

The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago is committed to advancing theory and practice as a unified and sustainable investigation. Located within an internationally recognized research institution, the department fosters both multi-disciplinary and focused visual studies that engage our contemporary world with meaningful questions. History, social thought, philosophy, and aesthetics in and outside the field of artistic practice are of considerable influence on thinking artists. This approach investigates the world as it is, and imagines the world as it could be.

Installation view, Shane Ward, Untitled (center) and Eric Watts, Janus January Janitor (left and right). Photo by Nabiha Khan.

Eric Watts, Janus January Janitor, Single channel video with stereo sound / 2012. Photo by Nabiha Khan.

Eric Watts, Janus January Janitor, Two channel video with stereo sound (all three looping independently) / 2012. Photo by Nabiha Khan.

Shane Ward, Somewhere in a Dark Corner #3, Cast coal, cast aluminum, mirrored ball, tablecloth / 2012. Photo by Nabiha Khan.

Shane Ward, Bit, Cast aluminum, heart-shaped cubic zirconia ring, polished aluminum can, 2000 plastic diamonds, rotating mirrored cake display / 2012. Photo by Nabiha Khan.

Travis Saul, 117 Generations, Digital media / 2012.

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Artists

Travis Saul

Shane Ward

Eric Watts