Category — Class of 2010
Alethea Norene at chelliswilson
MFA Alum Alethea Norene ‘10 has an upcoming installation at chelliswilson.
The Particulars of Persistent Reverie:
an experiment in fashioning the lost and looming
chelliswilson | Portland, ME
August 6th 2010
August the sixth beginning at five o’clock in the
evening, it would be our deepest honor to share in
the delights of your company
for
Alethea Norene’s latest reconciliations with Southern apparitions
High Society Music * Tailored Clothing * City Gossip *
Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Beverages * Scandal * Ripe Peaches
Michel Droge receives 2010 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant
MFA alum Michel Droge ’10 was one of 15 recent MFA graduates nationwide to receive a $15,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
The annual MFA Grant Program was created in 1997 to help MFA painters and sculptors in furthering their artistic careers and to aid in the transition from academic to professional studio work upon graduation. These grants are given in recognition of artistic quality to artists chosen from a body of candidates put forth by nominators from the academic art community across the United States.
MFA Thesis Exhibition Reviewed in The Portland Phoenix
Nicholas Schroeder reviews the 2010 Maine College of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition in The Portland Phoenix.
Thesis defense: MECA’s MFA students strut their stuff
By Nicholas Schroeder | May 26, 2010Encompassing a broad range of themes, media, and levels of participation, each set of works in this year’s Maine College of Art exhibition by nine thesis-level Master’s of Fine Arts students achieves its own world and requires a separate toolkit to process and unpack.
Congratulations to the Class of 2010!
Congratulations to Bill Cifuni, Ryan Conrad, Michel Droge, Alisha Gould, Stacy Howe, Anna Rae Landsman, Alethea Norene, Alexandra Silverthorne, and Mari Skarp!
Special thanks to our 2010 thesis viva voce external reviewers Evergon and jake moore as well as guests reviewers Barak Olins, Meghan Scribner, Julie Poitras Santos, Alison Hildreth, Peter Shellenberger, Lauren Fensterstock, and Randy Regier.
The 2010 MFA Thesis Exhibition is up through June 6th, so stop by the ICA and check it out!
Conrad at VAV Gallery
MFA Student Ryan Conrad ‘10 is participating in Concordia University’s 16th annual HIV/AIDS art show in Montreal.
in + body
VAV Gallery, Montreal, QC
March 29th – April 9th, 2010
Conrad will be showing his autobiographical short video b. 1983 as part of in + body, Concordia University’s 16th installment of its annual HIV/AIDS art show. This video work is an exploration of candid childhood home videos of a safe, suburban, white, middle-class life juxtaposed with a retrospective narrative foreshadowing the many forms of anti-queer violence soon to be survived. An opening reception will be held April 1st from 7-9pm at the gallery with performances by Coral Short, RPM, and Kathleen Patricia Lamothe.
MFA 2009 Summer Intensive wraps up!
And what an extraordinary summer it was….
Edible Collage Party
Molly McIntyre’s photographs of Jeff + Mark transforming images into food.
A skein of yarn becomes… well… we’re not sure exactly!
Thank you to Jeff Kulak and Mark Clintberg for making the MFA edible collage extravaganza a delectable feast!! Thank you to Lauren Fensterstock and Aaron Stephan for hosting us at their home.
Future of the Past: Reviving the Queer Archives
MFA student, Ryan Conrad (’10) opens his curated exhibition and launches the accompanying catalogue for Future of the Past: Revibing the Queer Archives at MECA on First Friday, June 5th. Congratulations, Ryan!
MFA Students Ride Into Town…
The new semester has begun and the classes of 2010 and 2011 have arrived at MECA!!!
Big Bad Bill on his bike
Student profile: Michel Droge
(net experiments 2009)
The Line The Path and The Shadow. I am interested in the ways that we remember our way by connecting to the land and the land to the map and the map to the memory. I am interested in the space between the body and the environment. The space that defines connection and also defines boundaries. The line as a divided and connected. A seam and a tear.
Recently I have also been looking at ways that our view is altered by fragmenting of the territory we perceive. I am interested in the ways that we look out from our bodies into our environment, perceived as a captive, prisoner, voyeur, or participant, what we see and how we see a path and an environment..The paintings on fragments and inverted fragments speak to this.
I am also interested in shadows and time and how a shadow becomes an object and yet it moves through time. The way a shadow defines not only the absence of the object, but its presence. The metaphor of impressions left upon others by objects and people led me to explore the net… Both a barrier and a sieve and a metaphor in this case for letting go, setting free and the act of grieving, as well as holing a potential for abundance and future wealth has led me to undertake a series of drawings and embossings and etchings with the object of the net.
