Hunter College’s MFA Program in Studio Art opened “Sundarpreis” on Friday, April 17, at 205 Hudson Gallery, the fourth of five MFA thesis exhibitions this spring.
The exhibition features the work of 35 graduate artists working across a range of mediums, including sculpture, painting, photography, video and mixed media. It runs through April 30 at the gallery, located at 205 Hudson St., with an entrance near Canal and Watts streets.
According to the program, the thesis exhibitions mark the culmination of three years of intensive studio practice and highlight the breadth of experimentation and critical inquiry within the MFA program.
The artists in “Sundarpreis” include Janina Butz, Cailyn Dawson, Theo Gaffney, Olivia Lutz, Katie Raudenbush, Satabdi Suman Tripathy and Claire Weaver-Zeman.
Their work spans themes of ambiguity, memory, migration, identity and transformation. Butz examines city life through industrial materials and contradictory forms, while Dawson uses the idea of a ship to explore uncertainty, belief and multiple realities. Gaffney’s work looks at ambiguity as both a method and a subject, and Lutz uses layered materials to explore memory and perception.
Raudenbush’s photographs and fabric-based work draw from family archives and questions of inheritance, while Tripathy’s layered paintings reflect memory, displacement and environmental change. Weaver-Zeman builds an alternate mythology through paintings, dolls, frames and sculptural objects that merge domestic and fantastical imagery.
The exhibition is part of Hunter College’s spring MFA thesis series.
Kishor Panthi
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