Fall 2016 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition 

November 5 - 17, 2016

Artists featured: Ariana Kolins, Emily Quinn, Roberta Restaino, Kim Shively.
Ariana Kolins鈥 socially-engaged practice examines community exchange, emotional labor, 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. She uses muted colors and elevated vantage points, highlighting the indeterminable threshold between security and uncertainty. 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.  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 Through 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