The Intermedia and Digital Arts [IMDA] MFA Thesis Exhibition of 2017, “Glass Oil Blood” at UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture [CADVC] featuring work by Melissa Penley Cormier, Ghazaleh Keshavarz, and Jaclin Paul runs through Friday, April 28. Don't miss it!
Intermedia works on display include time-based works, digital photography, objects and installations presented by the third year MFA candidates in the IMDA program: Melissa Penley Cormier, Ghazaleh Keshavarz and Jaclin Paul.
The IMDA graduate program is committed to investigating transformations of emerging artistic practices, especially those that give rise to new processes that pose unique conceptual and social challenges. The three-year course of study culminates in the thesis exhibition and a published written thesis.
Intermedia works on display include time-based works, digital photography, objects and installations presented by the third year MFA candidates in the IMDA program: Melissa Penley Cormier, Ghazaleh Keshavarz and Jaclin Paul.
The IMDA graduate program is committed to investigating transformations of emerging artistic practices, especially those that give rise to new processes that pose unique conceptual and social challenges. The three-year course of study culminates in the thesis exhibition and a published written thesis.
Melissa Penley Cormier creates time-based projects, installations, objects and works on paper. Her MFA thesis project Fret + Focus is a time-based work made up of 365 microscope slides that physically sample worries in a way that allows them to be observed and archived. Viewing devices are borrowed and hand-made from various found objects and optical devices and fragments.
Naftoon is a multimedia art installation poetically integrating the essential role of oil in Iranian society through photo, video, audio, and animation elements by Ghazaleh Keshavarz. Keshavarz is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on photography, installation, and site-specific projects. This installation explores the history of oil from the discovery of it in 1908, through the nationalization of oil in 1951 and up till now.
Jaclin Paul presents Sibling Portraits, a series of large-scale photographs that explore relationship, similarity, difference and family mythology through digitally manipulated photographs of eight brothers and sisters, along with animation and audio elements. Her work about the semiotics and pragmatics of phenotypes depicts her subjects in real and imagined spaces, directly implicating the photographer, the siblings, and by proxy, the viewer.
CADVC Exhibition Hours:
Tues. – Sat. 10 AM – 5 PM, Thurs. open until 7 PM
RTKL Fellowship Award Lecture by Ghazaleh Keshavarz:
Thursday, April 27, 2 - 3 p.m.
Oral Defense Schedule:
Open to the public but doors shut and lock promptly at time posted below
-Ghazaleh Keshavarz 4/18 at 10am
-Melissa Penley Cormier 4/28 at 10am
-Jaclin Paul 4/28 at 1pm
Naftoon is a multimedia art installation poetically integrating the essential role of oil in Iranian society through photo, video, audio, and animation elements by Ghazaleh Keshavarz. Keshavarz is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on photography, installation, and site-specific projects. This installation explores the history of oil from the discovery of it in 1908, through the nationalization of oil in 1951 and up till now.
Jaclin Paul presents Sibling Portraits, a series of large-scale photographs that explore relationship, similarity, difference and family mythology through digitally manipulated photographs of eight brothers and sisters, along with animation and audio elements. Her work about the semiotics and pragmatics of phenotypes depicts her subjects in real and imagined spaces, directly implicating the photographer, the siblings, and by proxy, the viewer.
CADVC Exhibition Hours:
Tues. – Sat. 10 AM – 5 PM, Thurs. open until 7 PM
RTKL Fellowship Award Lecture by Ghazaleh Keshavarz:
Thursday, April 27, 2 - 3 p.m.
Oral Defense Schedule:
Open to the public but doors shut and lock promptly at time posted below
-Ghazaleh Keshavarz 4/18 at 10am
-Melissa Penley Cormier 4/28 at 10am
-Jaclin Paul 4/28 at 1pm
