MFA NOW 2019 Featuring Wyatt Hall and Lindsay Rothwell

Congratulations to MFA students Wyatt Hall and Lindsay Rothwell who will be exhibiting in this year's MFA NOW!

Now in its sixth iteration, Root Division's MFA Now project provides a platform for looking at Bay Area artists and institutions in order to promote dialogue between programs and to archive current art-making practices and models. This year's exhibition will be juried by Maria Jenson, Executive Director, SOMArts.

This year’s exhibition will include the work of twenty five artists. Selected based on a single image and artist statement, the works included in this exhibition display a quality of content and execution that is indicative of the rigor of advanced art degree programs. Works range in media from large scale installation, to video, sculpture, photography and painting. This exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the developing practices of candidates prior to their thesis presentations.

The opening reception is Saturday, March 9th, at 7-10 PM.

Click here for more information on MFA NOW, including the full list of participating artists. 

Mills College Art Lecture Series | Torreya Cummings

Torreya Cummings is a project-based visual artist working with ideas of space, place, and time. Their work ranges from photo and sculpture to installation, performance and video with a particular emphasis on making spaces for action. Cummings uses drag aesthetics, hardware store materials, the unsettling relationship of history and fiction, the paradoxes of life in the west, ambivalence, theater tricks, bad illusions, props, sets, and interpretive sites. They showed work in Bay Area Now 7 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, have presented performances with Machine Project, Southern Exposure, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, among others. Cummings received an MFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts and lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Danforth Lecture Hall
7:00-8:00pm
followed by a light reception

This lecture is supported by the Herringer Graduate Lecture Series.

Image:
Notes from Camp, AKA Transdimensional Ghost Town Discotheque
2016
Installation

Mills College Art Lecture Series | LillyMcElroy

Lilly McElroy is a photographer and performance artist who uses humor and the absurd to pick apart ideas of culturally sanctified space. Employing performance, video art, photography, and sculpture, McElroy often bluntly enacts turns of phrase, as in her series "I Throw Myself at Men" and "California's Full of Whisky, Women, and Gold." Through a feminist lens, she examines both the mythos of American West as well as gendered expectations for intimacy and personal space. Lilly received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. She has participated in numerous exhibitions which include solo exhibitions in New York and Chicago as well as international group exhibitions in Chile, Finland, and the UK. McElroy currently lives and works in Kansas City.

Danforth Lecture Hall
7:00-8:00pm
followed by a light reception

This event is generously supported by the Herringer Graduate Lecture Series.

Image:
I throw myself at men #12
Archival Inkjet Print
30 x 40 "
Image courtesy of the Artist and Rick Wester Fine Art