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MASTER OF FINE ARTS PROGRAM20152016
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
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20152016
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYMASTER OF FINE ARTS PROGRAM
ABOUT THE ASU MASTER OF FINE ARTS PROGRAMThis catalog showcases the work of prospective Master ofFine Arts (MFA) degree students in the Herberger Institute School of Art at Arizona State University. During the course of a three-year degree, artists are challenged to develop their crafts and concepts in preparation to become leaders in the professional art community.
ABOUT THE ART GRADS (TAG)The Art Grads is a student organization representing all of ASU’s studio MFA artists through the promotion of art at Arizona State University and the local community. By organizing events such as gallery exhibitions, visiting artists, and open studios, TAG members cross the boundaries of their respective media and become a creative collective. For more information on TAG and their upcoming events, please visit facebook.com/TheArtGradsASU
cover art: Shiyuan Xutitle page art: Travis Rice
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Cam DeCaussin | Somewhere Between Love and Madness (2016)Oil on panel, 11 5/8” x 20 5/8”
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Elliott Kayser | Stock Split (2016)Bronze, gold leaf, 24” x 7” x 15”
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Buzzy Sullivan | Central Valley, CA - looking North (2015)Pigment print, 35” x 28”
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Lisa Von Hoffner | Mesopotamia (2015)Mixed media on birch wood, backlit with LED lights, 48” x 48” x 6”
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Andrew Noble | Influences (2014)3D printed plastic, 10” x 7” x 5”
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Tyler Griese | Wayside (2016)Oil on canvas, 36” x 60”
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Dani Godreau | Perforate (2016)Cut paper, paper sculpture installation 96” x 48” x 96”
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Renee Dennison | Droplets in the Sand (2012)Black and white digital photograph, 17” x 12”
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Priya Thoresen | Blue Stuff (2016)Earthenware, 10” x 12” x 17.5”
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Molly Koehn | Eventually, Everything Will Collapse (2015)Mason jars, rust, concrete, pine, 108” x 165” x 35”
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Hannah Walsh | The Fable of the Wüstenwolf and the Maiden (2016)Graphite, color pencil, pastel on paper, 30” x 24”
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Lily Montgomery| Bodies of Light (2015)Argon filled glass, steel, live models, porcelain, gold slip, wire, 14’
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Cydnei Mallory | Untitled (2014)Rope, steel, string, 21” x 2” x 7”
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Camila Galofre | Drift, 4 (2015)Charcoal on paper, 40” x 40”
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Kari Wehrs | Alex/ Lake Megunticook (2014)Tintype, 3.125” x 4”
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Sophia Maria Paz | Unfolded (2014)Screen print with photo process, 22” x 24.5”
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Ryan Parra | Verbesina Encelioides, Golden Crownbeard (2015)Pigment print, size variable
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Shannon Ludington | Silk Study (2015)Raw silk, 36” x 48” x 8”
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Zach Valent |Blood and Satin (2015)Blood wood, satin wood, concrete, 15” x 15” x 20”
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Jace Becker | Samnhain92 (2015)Modancage, 24” x 30”
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Alison Sweet | Quickly Forgotten (2015)Albumen print, 7” x 5”
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Shiyuan Xu | Through the Lens (2015)Porcelain, 9.5” x 26.5” x 11”
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Layne Farmer | Electric Feel (2014)Gouache, vinyl, thank you cards and ink collaged on paper, 7.5” x 11”
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Kara Roschi | Daily Reminders (2015)Cast acrylic paint, dimensions variable
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Kate Horvat | X-TRA REAL (Greasy) (2015)Stone lithograph, 22” x 22”
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Pam Golden | Dee (2015)Archival pigment print, 20” x 16”
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John Toumisto-Bell | Man With a Blue Head (2015)Bronze, acrylic paint, 28.5” x 17” x 13”
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Rachel Goodwin| Intertwined (2015)Wood, fabric, resin, paint, bra stapping, stain, oil stick, paint pen, 64” x 58” x 8”
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Swapna Das | Rules of Desire (2015)Charcoal on paper, 35” x 34”
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Kim Lyle | 381 Foreclosures in Vermont (2010)Cardboard, 1”x 1” x 1” per house
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Travis Ivey | Red, Yellow, Blue (2014)Privacy envelopes and glitter on panel, 12” x 37”
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Janet Diaz | Not For Sale (2015)Plaster, 36” x 40” x 48”
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Emily Ritter | Consumption (1 of 24) (2014)Inkjet print, 11” x 8.5”
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Joe Holdren | Set Free (2016)Acrylic, charcoal, chalk, oil stick, oils on synthetic paper, 164” x 114”
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Lee Krist | Migratory Patterns of North American Queers (2015)Photo transparency, 8” x 10”
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Xue Jiang | Harmonious Integration (2015)Video, multi-channel video installation, 1920 pi x 1080 pi , 16:9 aspect ratio
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Jonah Amadeus | For Closure (2015)Porcelain, water, time, 24” x 28” x 29”
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Shawn Barker | Morning Routine (2015)Archival inkjet print, 3.2” x 4”
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Courtney Richter | Untitled (2015)Snow fencing, felt, packing material, dowel, spray paint, craft foam, 85” x 30” x 16”
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Christina Kemp Sullivan | Plate, Hammer, Super Glue (2016)Found object, 9.5” x 9.5”
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Eli McGlothern | Space, Brah (2015)Digital print, 24” x 24”
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Bill Jamison | To The Yixing, To the Wall (2015)Slip-cast clay cups, handbuilt clay wall coozies, 24” x 12” x 6”
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Travis Rice | Crash (2015)Acrylic on canvas, 88” x 66”
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Jessica Palomo | Buds of Infection (2015)Graphite and gesso on panel, 12.75” x 17”
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Chris Vena | Sunday, June 9th, Occupy Gezi 1 (2013)Oil on canvas, 31” x 43”
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Hakyoung Kim | Internal Connection (2014)Digital print, 6” x 9”
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ALISON SWEET | Idaho City, ID alisonsweet.weebly.comAlison is a photo based multimedia artist who focuses on the landscape, the people and the history of the American West from a feminist viewpoint.
ANDREW NOBLE | Marshall, MN andrew-noble.comAndrew plays with 3D data collection, 3D printing, video and animation. He creates forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based on subjective associations and formal parallels.
BILL JAMISON | Anchorage, AK billspots.com billspotsBill’s design-inspired, functional ceramic vessels reflect his background in Engineering and his current life as an artist. He creates modular pieces that live equally in both gallery spaces and in the home.
BUZZY SULLIVAN | Missoula, MT buzzysullivan.com buzzysullivanThrough his photographs, Buzzy Sullivan explores the interaction of human, history, and place. His work is a contemporary survey of the American West.
CAM DECAUSSIN | Marine City, MI camdecaussin.comThe suburban landscape contains an ambiguous narrative. Utilizing this imagery and motifs of solitude, loneliness and reflection, there is a desire to explore the silent drama that exists within cul-de-sac culture.
CAMILA GALOFRE | Bogotá, Colombia camilagalofre.com camiglfrCamila explores magical realism as a visual concept, while examining human perceptions of the transformational landscape to stimulate environmental empathy and ratify new definitions of the role of landscape art as a cultural identifier within contemporary art.
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CYDNEI MALLORY | Pittsburgh, PA cydneimallory.com
With a natural draw to mundane materials such as rope, scrap metals and hairnets, Cydnei’s work speaks to the contradictions of class, cultural, racial and sexual difference.
DANI GODREAU | Jacksonville, FL danigodreau.com
Through the decorative and meticulously handcrafted nature of her paper cuts Dani celebrates the global tradition of paper cutting as an art form while addressing the complex issue of
feminine identity and valorizing devalued women’s labor.
CHRISTINA KEMP SULLIVAN | Portland, OR christinakempsullivan.com christinamariekemp
Christina’s work examines the obsolescence of the ordinary, and explores the relationships between people and objects. Through detailed craft based alterations, the unexceptional nature of mass
produced items is balanced with a sense of value.
ELI MCGLOTHERN | Napa, CA elirichard.com eeeeli_richard
Eli communicates his life experiences through a sequence of images and icons that collectively define him.
COURTNEY RICHTER | Wyomissing, PA courtneyfaithrichter.com
The desire to change oneself or to accept oneself can become a repetitive cycle full of doubts, disappointments, and tiny celebrations. Courtney’s work is based in her experience
with self-help books and similar advice-oriented outlets.
CHRIS VENA | San Diego, CA chrisvena.com
Painting has served as a means of documentation, comment and appraisal of political unrest since ancient times. Chris’ recent work is an extension of that tradition. He returned to the US from Turkey in late 2014 and is now in his 2nd year as an MFA candidate in painting at Arizona State University.
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JANET DIAZ | Salinas, CA janetdiaz.comJanet uses printmaking and sculpture to explore the violent realities existing along the US/Mexican border. Through her work she demonstrates the different social, political and culture issues that happen within Mexico and the United States.
JACE BECKER | Pittsburgh, PA jacebecker.comJace’s photographic work focuses on the cultural landscape, specifically social and self-exploration, issues of identity, and the darker sides of introspection. His area of emphasis is in alternative process.
EMILY RITTER | Wichita, KS emilyeritter.comEmily’s work explores human irresponsibility and its consequences on different species and environments. Her goal is to bring awareness and start a conversation about solutions.
HANNAH WALSH | Phoenix, AZ hannahirenewalsh.com Hannah’s visual narratives of invented mythologies interweave with representations of herself in various roles/personas: deity, animal; shaman, sexual object. Her work explores the shameless sensuality and feral aspect of womanhood.
HAKYOUNG KIM | Daegu, Korea hakyoungkim.comHakyoung’s work expresses how all living and non-living existences are perpetually interconnected through cause and effect. The ceramic elements of her work play the role of connecting objects in different spaces and times.
ELLIOTT KAYSER | Portland, OR kayserceramics.com kayserceramicsElliott has been sculpting cattle as icons of the American landscape. As symbols of our resources, cows are a reminder of our successes in agriculture, and more recently our distance from it.
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JESSICA PALOMO |Dallas, TX jessicapalomo.com
These drawings are in response to death and its unseen effects that can place identity and emotion in a liminal space. Jessica’s work explores in-between and outside these borders of reality to capture a visceral and complex emotion.
JOHN TUOMISTO-BELL | Phoenix, AZ tuomistobell.com
Man and his paradoxical relationships with violence, sexual identity, and religion fascinate John and have been his focus/exploration for years. He is drawn to the figure because of its
iconic nature and worldwide universal appeal.
JONAH AMADEUS| Durango, CO jonahamadeus.com jonahamadeus
For Closure is Jonah Amadeus’ examination of materialism in modern Americana; his time based ceramic sculptures revel in entropy as their dissolution slowly impels them to a
therapeutic ruin.
KARA ROSCHI | Girard, PA kararoschi.com
Kara sees her work — in all its forms — as a rope bridge between bluffs; it briefly tethers divergent perspectives and
value sets for a fleeting moment of exchange.
KARI WEHRS | Rochester, MN kariwehrs.com
Kari Wehrs is a photographer interested in personal stories, people, and a documentary stance. Recently, her portraiture employs the 1850s collodion process. She sees the tintype
image as a personal and intimate memento.
JOE HOLDREN | Athens, AL Joe Holdren
Joe Holdren’s process of painting and mark-making creates an “orderly-disorder” inspired by moments; brief glimpses of an image or word, fleeting emotions, or ongoing moods and all things perceived subliminally or directly. He sees beauty in
the way things shift and change.
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LISA VON HOFFNER | Swarthmore, PA lisavonhoffner.comWith holographs, light, and nova-like tondos added to the lexicon of her work, Lisa utilizes form to explore the paradoxical state of women’s sexuality in a distinctly patriarchal society while defying the limits of dimensionality of traditional painting.
LAYNE FARMER | Allen, TX laynefarmer.tumblr.com/Layne’s work is a response to nature and patterns of the human condition. His work is an array of abstract processes combined with design elements and motifs to produce an image. It is much more about re-acting than acting.
LEE KRIST |Astoria, NY Migratory Patterns of North American Queers at the Turn of the CenturyLee Krist’s work in photography, film, and book arts are auto-ethnographic documents of a contemporary queer subculture. His current photo record book creates a space for viewers to read and write personal migration narratives.
LILY MONTGOMERY | Birmingham, AL lmontgo1.wix.com/lilyreeves Lily creates immersive sculptural installations that use light and performance to evoke qualities of human nature that have declined in modern American Society.
KATE HORVAT | Kansas City, KS katehorvat.comOur desires can be viewed as propositions — wishing, wanting, craving, longing urges rooted in an instinctive bodily need. Kate Horvat’s work explores these hopes and wants, the expectations associated with them and the reality once they are fulfilled.
KIM LYLE | Jacksonville, FL kimlyle.net kim.lyleKim’s practice traverses sculpture, text, audience participation, installation, and video. She is interested in exploring humans’ relationships with place, with each other, and with changing notions of home.
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MOLLY KOEHN | Sublette, KS mollykoehn.com mollymoso
Molly Koehn’s work is based on the relationship of looking at ourselves and our ecosystem and realizing the key role we
play in climate change.
PAM GOLDEN | Tucson, AZ pamgoldenphotographs.com
Pam Golden’s photographs of people and landscape mark our shared passage.
PRIYA THORESEN | Gainesville, FL priyathoresen.com
Priya collects and documents everyday objects, and builds earthenware vessels to contain these things.
RACHEL GOODWIN | Tyler, TX rachelgoodwinart.com
Products constantly infiltrate our daily lives, with bright adverts subliminally affecting one’s judgments. Rachel mimicks this phenomenon in her work; product materials themselves are celebrated in a formalist manner. They own
us just as much as we own them.
RENEE DENNISON |Tohatchi, NM reneedennison Renee Dennison
“As I turned to walk up the steps to dad’s house I saw these impressions in the wet sand and knew they would soon be gone.
I wished that this simple impression could remain untouched.”
RYAN PARRA | Novato, CA ryanparra.com
Ryan photographs edible, medicinal, and psychoactive plants growing in the Tempe/Phoenix valley. He is interested in our relationship with nature, and the role plants have played in our exploration of knowledge and well-being for thousands of years.
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TRAVIS IVEY | Laramie, WY travisivey.comTravis’ work employs an intuitive approach to composition and design using collected and found materials. These pieces reflect his yearning for nostalgia and history, while satisfying his desire to collect, sort and repurpose materials from his life.
SWAPNA DAS | Delhi, India swapnadas-art.comSwapna’s current body of work focuses on the Buddhist concept of “Ten Worlds” or ten life conditions; lowest being hell and highest being Buddhahood. Her art encompasses profound belief that spirituality and creativity are intertwined.
SOFIA MARIA PAZ | Boulder, CO sofiamariapaz.comCombining individual mark-making with processes of mass production, Sofia’s prints seek to characterize human emotion. By displaying subconscious evocations with traditional associations, the result is both recognizable and detached.
SHIYUAN XU | Hangzhou, China shiyuanxu.com shiyuanxu129Shiyuan has great interest in nature, particularly at the microscopic level. Through these intricate ceramic sculptures, Shiyuan attempts to reveal the spectacular hidden world becoming visible.
SHANNON LUDINGTON | Tashkent, Uzbekistan shannonludington.comShannon Ludington explores issues concerned with identity and social interactions by using our close relationships with textiles to build points of empathy.
SHAWN S. BARKER |North Ogden, UT shawnsbarker.comA transcendental beauty lies in our intrinsic connection to each other as well as to the land. Shawn explores these ideas through the lens of fatherhood, examining his own relationship to his children as well as to past generations.
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TRAVIS RICE | Elkhart, IN travisriceartist.com
Influenced by his background in architecture, Travis Rice’s work incorporates 3D modeling to create complex, hard-edge compositions that give an illusion of space through
both form and materiality.
TYLER GRIESE |Cincinnati, OH tylergriese.com
Tyler’s artwork deals with his perspective in the larger realm of the human condition. The figures exist in spaces because these spaces are engrained in his consciousness and become
metaphors for the collective journey of the human spirit.
XUE JIANG |Shenyang, China xjiang.net
Xue Jiang works on Video Art and 3D Computer Modeling / Animation. Her studio work focuses on interconnected complementary relationships, virtual art spaces, and
interdisciplinary art development.
ZACH VALENT | Peoria, IL zachvalent.com
Inspired by a love for geology and captivated by the rapid development of society, Zach creates artwork that simultaneously reflects the presence of time and processes
found in both nature and humanity.
Grant Street Studios
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This catalog was created entirely by TAG members and distributed in part by a generous contribution from the
ASU Herberger Institute School of Art (HIDA)
Select B&W Studio photos provided by HIDA. Photography credit: Craig Smith© 2015 Arizona Board of Regents. All rights reserved.
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