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NEVER ODD OR EVEN is an exhibition of artwork created by five graduating artists for their final M FA Thesis. The artists include Andrew Chapman\, Yvette Deas\, Rhonda Holbe rton\, Adam Katseff\, and Yulia Pinkusevich.

As curator Enrique Chagoya states\, &ldquo\;the imagery and abstraction in some of the artwork in this exhibition may sugg est connections that do not exist and others that are actually there\, but at the end we may realize that this is more about the NEVE RO DDO REVEN e ffect: the effect of going endlessly back and forth between art and realit y.&rdquo\;

A ndrew Chapman&rsquo\;s work is site-specific. Rather than being immobile a s the term implies\, the piece functions as a kind of Rubik&rsquo\;s cube gone awry. The parts consist of two-dimensional painted elements that addr ess a three-dimensional sculptural space and are made of materials that ar e paused mid-motion\, otherwise shifting\, stacking\, animated\, and foldi ng. This piece\, which takes on the roll of a virtualized traveling show\, plays with abstraction as Chapman looks into notions of authenticity\, du plicity\, and visual signification within his practice in an omnipresent d igital era.

In Dissection Series\, Yvette Deas moves from the representational in her earlier work into the less representational in her paintings of cadavers. Considered as an examination of portraiture\, the subject is centralized and decentralized alternating between absorptio n of the flesh and the vestiges left behind. Body parts become traces of a life\, even as the surgeon&rsquo\;s hands become the artist&rsquo\;s hand s and the viewer&rsquo\;s eyes. The strange disjunction between a consciou s understanding of the body as impersonal\, vacated body parts and the und erstanding of the body as a specific person is where these paintings are s ited\, either within a single painting\, or in juxtaposition.

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Rhonda Holberton&rsquo\;s interdiscipli nary practice documents her attempts to navigate complex phenomenological systems. Her work reveals a magic and symbolic reading of empirical canons of belief through a hybrid of scientific and metaphysical practices. In t he Holes series\, photographs document her actions in the va stness of the desert landscape. \;The video work\, All Tomorrows\, abstracts apocalyptic imaginings through a series of analog compressi ons. These works place the human body in an ambiguous relationship to scal e\, drawing attention to the complexities of human engagement in natural s ystems and point toward a reality that is immaterial and unpredictable in nature.
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Adam Katseff uses photography to capture the feeling behi nd a landscape\, rather than simply what it &ldquo\;looks like.&rdquo\; Hi s current series juxtaposes darkness and light\, using a stripped down sen se of place to transmute our everyday experience of interior and exterior spaces into one centered around spirituality and the personal imagination. By way of nearly black landscapes full of minute detail\, and blindingly white vacant interiors\, his recent works communicate with the viewer in a manner both meditative and physical.
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Influenced by her personal history of being uproot ed from the former Soviet Union at an early age and observations from many of her international and domestic travels\, Yulia Pinkusevich&rsquo\;s wo rk explores f ragmented vision of architectural layering and perceptions of the built en vironment. Formally\, the work is engaged with the direct experience of th e viewer through perspectival illusion and spatial perception that play wi th the subconscious and cognitive understanding of space. By breaking logi cal perspectives she create illusions of impossible spaces\, non-places or Utopias that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic.
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VISITOR INFORMATION:
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Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday\, 10 AM&ndash\ ;5 PM\, and Saturday and Sunday\, 1-5 PM. Admission is free. The Gallery i s located in the Stanford campus\, off Palm Drive at 419 Lasuen Mall. Park ing is free after 4 PM and all day on weekends. Information: \; (650) 723-2842\, http://art.stanford.edu.
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Root Division is open Wednesd ay through Saturday\, 2-6 PM\, and is located at 3175 17^th Stre et\, San Francisco. Information: (415) 863-7668\, www.rootdivision.org.
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T180000 DTSTAMP:20130619T132730Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T140000 LOCATION:Root Division3175 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA 93405 SUMMARY:Never Odd or Even (MFA Thesis Exhibition) in San Francisco - Openin g UID:20130619T152730CEST-kVk5c1fa17@171.67.40.181 BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER;VALUE=DURATION;RELATED=START:-PT0H15M0S END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR