DEVIL-MAY-CARE

1st Year MFA Exhibition
 

On view January 12 - February 21, 2010
Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery

 Reception:  January 14, 5-7 PM

Australian artist and researcher Boo Chapple has made edible phones, washed household plants, and fabricated white reflective hats to counteract global warming. The common thread in her projects is a critique on the effect of our excessive consumer culture on the flow of our daily rituals. Her obsession with commodity fetish and cleanliness through installations and videos seem to literally seep through the cracks of the gallery.

In Jacqueline Gordon's worlds, craft and sound meld in mixed media installations. In her sound installation, she forms the handmade and nestles it in patterns through layers of sounds, speakers, and spaces to create objects and machines. Her sound engulfs the viewers, and her interest in American spirituality and altered states of perception is physically experienced in the environments she creates.

With The Panty Chain Letter, created under her alter ego, Sister Dora, that uses common kinks and fetishes, Dorian Katz brings together imaginary worlds that draw no disparity between the innocent and the perverse. While a great deal of visual, performance and literary work has been done using sexual outsider imagery for sensational effect, she hopes to portray some of the same materials as pleasantly familiar.

Sanaz Mazinani is an interdisciplinary artist interested in creating work that critically engages with personaly mythologies on a sympbolic level. Her work focuses on re-presenting reality across cultural, territorial, and interpersonal borders. Through connecting images of fighter planes, photographs taken by soldiers in Iraq, maps, and explosions, she draws from the iconography of media propaganda to show how the perception of conflict is constructed differently accross global settings.

Jerome Reyes is a multimedia artist and educator who currently works with concepts of monument desitn, urban studies, and social justice. His installation revisits the last moments of the San Francisco International Hotel and the community it housed just before the 1977 eviction (and subsequent demolition in 1979). With the tenant stories, lost documents, and artifacts he collected from the building, he combines these remnants with video re-enactments to carefully re-examine the legacy of the Hotel.

 
VISITOR INFORMATION: Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 AM–5 PM, and Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 PM. Admission is free. The Gallery is located in the Stanford campus, off Palm Drive at 419 Lasuen Mall. Parking is free after 4 PM and all day on weekends. Information:  (650) 723-2842, http://art.stanford.edu.

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