Please Join us for "The Second Class!"

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The Second Class
Selected Pieces from the Mass Art/Fine Arts Work Center 2008 MFA Thesis
Show

Exhibit dates: 20 February-20 March 2009
Artists reception 20 February 7-9 p.m.

Free and open to the public.
High res images available upon request.



ABOUT THE SHOW

In 2005 Massachusetts College of Art commenced its first low- residency MFA
program, MFAWC, in conjunction with The Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown. The Nave Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of selected
works from the program's "second class", the graduates of 2008.

During
the two-year program, MFAWC's class of 2008 spent four month- long
residencies at The Fine Arts Work Center, studying and participating in
critiques with artists Jim Peters, Joel Janowitz, Helen Miranda Wilson,
Paul Stopforth, Byron Kim, Julie Heffernan, Joan Snyder,
and many others.
During the non-residency portions of the program, the class (whose members
hailed from as far away as Oregon) studied with mentors, a partial list of
whom includes Gregory Amenoff, John Imber, William Wegman, and Marjorie
Portnow.



Though the group of twelve work in a range of media and a variety of visual
and conceptual approaches, their art has in common an interest in space:
emotional space, the space of memory, the forms of landscape, the concept
of arbitrary movement through space and the virtual space of the
surveillance camera. The MFAWC class of 2008 enjoyed regular contact with
Provinctown's dramatic landscape, and the low-residency program
necessitated that their work be done in more then one studio. As well as
being an MFA program, MFAWC is an exercise in practicing art through space,
over time. Possibly this has spun a common thread through the graduate's
work.




ARTISTS Rebecca Tesha Arnoldi Hannah Bureau Wylie Sofia Garcia
Katie Jurkiewicz Kate Ledogar Adam Scott Miller Nancy Winship
Milliken Louis Theodore Ollier Sal Strom Sage Tucker-Ketcham
Julius Wasserstein Joyce Zavorskas