2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition,
May 10–June 24, 2018
Alsdorf Gallery, Block Museum
Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 10, 6–9pm
James Britt, Joe Cassan, Kandis Friesen and Christopher Smith—2018 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University—present their thesis projects, concluding two years of intensive artistic development. This year's thesis exhibition is accompanied by events, programming and a publication conceived by the MFA candidates.
Free and open to public.
This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment.
Related Programming:
We Need To Hide What We're Doing
Saturday, May 26th, 7pm
One night program of screening and performative works by Northwestern Art Theory and Practice MFA students, alumni and staff.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, May 10, 6:00pmat Block Museum
Alsdorf Gallery
40 Arts Circle Dr.
Evanston, IL, 60208
Andrew Falkowski, Judy Ledgerwood, Joe Pflieger & Phillip Vanderhyden
@ Julius Caesar Opening May 20, 6 - 9, runs through June 11
"The marshals of the four coalitions chose our sky for their decisive battle because the sky over our village was the best in the world: calm and cloudless. The sun flowed through our sky like a wide, peaceful river. I remember them well, the sun and the sky. The marshals found this place ideal for the final battle. It’s not surprising."
An excerpt from Without Sky by Natan Dubovitsky
Natan Dubovitsky is the pen name of Vladislov Surkov, the architect of Vladimir Putin’s "Non Linear War," a steady-state information attack on western democracy. The disillusion of shared consensus is a main objective. Pensive paranoia is another.
The scrambled esthetic of "non linear war" is a contradistinction to late modernism’s reductive "clarity." Both presume hierarchy through efficient platforms of universality. Both can be seen as perversely attractive in their conviction, depending how you see it. Both can be integrated into target practice.
Recursive graphic motifs seduce with endless iteration and flexible disposability. They confirm themselves with self-reflexive repetition.
In fetishizing the mechanisms that occupy perception in its various guises, perhaps one can inhabit fear and loathing’s abstract design.
Same Shit Different Day/Don’t Worry Be Happy.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Saturday, May 20, 6:00pmJulius Caesar
3311 W. Carroll Ave
Chicago, IL
Lama Altakruri, Kentaro Kumanomido, Sara Milkes, Craig Neeson, Titus Wonsey,
This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice, and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund, the Myers Foundations, the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts, and the Alsdorf Endowment.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, May 4, 6:00pmat Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr
Evanston, IL, 60202
