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MASTER OF FINE ARTS

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART 2014

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2014 MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LAMAR DODD SCHOOL OF ART 270 RIVER ROAD ATHENS, GEORGIA 30602 APRIL 12 - MAY 4, 2014 OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014 6-9PM

COLOPHON SPEAKER KATIE GEHA ART DIRECTOR KIM KIRBY DESIGNERS JORDAN CONNER

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2014 MFA CANDIDATES CAITLIN BIELETA PAGE 2

NATALIA ARRELANO- BLAMEY PAGE 2

JACOB BRAULT

LAUREN BULLOCK

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LYDNEY CLAYBORN

MANTY DEY

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HONG HONG

TZVI IZAKSONAS

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JOURDAN JOLY

ELIZABETH KLEEN

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JENNA KRIEGEL

BRITTANY LAUBACK

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MICHAEL LEVINE

YU-HSIEN SHEN

PATRICK C. WALTER

QUAN YUAN

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CAITLIN BIELATA

1— Removing Mountaintops / Wasp Nest Encaustic, graphite drawing, and mixed media on panel ( 24”x 40” )

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Removing Mountaintops/ Wasp Nest (detail)

Holy Fools / Ziggurat

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Encaustic, graphite drawing, and mixed media on panel 32”x 24”

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JACOB BRAULT Jacob Brault was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point in 2007. For three years Brault lived in Italy and worked for the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Cortona Program.

His creative practice investigates the everyday, Deluzian philosophy, shared and personal experience, utilitarian objects, and postminimalism. Working as a multi-media artist, Brault employs a multitude of materials and processes to engage the viewer physically, seductively and psychologically.

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Now, Then, and Again, 2013

Three Ideas Sitting, 2014

Trees, Motel Room Dimensions Variable

Bronze, Bucket ( 18" x 14" x 14" )

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Body With Out Organs, 2014

Mix, 2012

Stainless Steel ( 46" x 36.5" x 4.5" )

Still from Video Installation Dimensions Variable

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LYNDEY CLAYBORN

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Raised in the pine forests of north Louisiana, Lyndey Clayborn received her BFA from Louisiana Tech University in 2010. At this time she is a MFA candidate in the printmaking program at the University of Georgia in Athens. Lyndey’s work attempts to examine the structures of contemporary society through new technologies and media. She currently resides in Athens, where she teaches and “tumblrs.”

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HONG HONG

Born in Hefei, China, Hong Hong immigrated to the United States when she was 8 years old. In 2011, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from State University of New York at Potsdam. She currently resides in Athens, Georgia, where she is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia.

Hong is interested in collective events that humanity experiences. Her work can be seen as material attempts to understand and mimic cycles that ebb and flow, in spite of us.

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NATALIA ARELLANO BLAMEY

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Natalia travelled to UGA to study Fabric design with a BFA in Graphic Design from Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile. Her fascination with textiles from a young age took her to create materials that trigger in others the need to touch and experience the material for themselves.

The conceptualization of feelings into textiles is the main drive behind her work.

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LAUREN BULLOCK Lauren Bullock is an MFA candidate in Fabric Design whose research involves issues of waste, mass consumption, working class, and labor. Throughout her time at the University of Georgia she has integrated a variety of skills to construct fabric from discarded materials, using methods such as weaving, sewing, and soft sculpture along with other contemporary and traditional techniques.

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Offerings. Vermilion

Offerings. Jade

Hand dyed kozo-shi

Hand dyed kozo-shi

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A Shorter Way of Writing (Bananas)

This is Where the Magic Happens

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Medium: Studio door

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Elizabeth Kleene was born in Belfast, Maine and received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003. The main subject of her recent body of work is the mysterious relationship between physical states and conscious phenomenal states, and the strange mental spaces and modes artists engage while

in the act of creating. Synthesizing elements from systems used to comprehend and communicate information including languageparticularly jokes and humor, data graphics, puzzles, and mathematics, her work exploits and documents the absurd mental and physical processes involved in it’s creation.

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TZVI IZAKSONAS Tzvi Izaksonas was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota and received his BA at the University of Minnesota in 2010. Through drawing, print, collage and found object sculpture Tzvi explores the tension of internal and external space. By depicting organic, crystalline and human made structures as equals in a shared field, his work explores the precarious relationship between perceptions of human constructs and the natural world.

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Further Notations on Crackling Blueness, 2014

Dreaming of Viking One; 1, 2014

Dreaming of Viking One; 3, 2014

Blue Bottle, Orange Construction Fencing, Lichen Covered Stick, Map Pins

Pen and Ink, Matte Board

Screenprint, Collage

A Deep Inhale While Attempting To Catch Ones Breath, 2013 Digital Collage

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A Sudden Bolt: Sympathy of a Thing, 2014

Seed/Cede, 2014

Rising Collapse, 2014

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Ink on Paper

Screen Print, Mate Board, Lichen, Stick, Paint

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JOURDAN JOLY As a multi disciplined artist Jourdan Joly received a BFA from Florida State University in 2010. Currently he has continued his studies at the University of Georgia concentrating in three-dimensional mediums. Fueled by a joy of making and fascinated by the epic, Joly explores surreal thoughts of infinity and perceptions of scale to access and activate the imagination.

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Phobetor & Co.: Whisperer

Phobetor & Co.: Messenger

Phobetor & Co.: Scuttler

Wood, Steel, Cast iron, Leather ( 20” x 40” x 8” )

Leather, Feathers, Bone, Hardware, Thread ( 3” x 3” x 2” )

Bone, Twine, Hardware, Thread ( 10” x 10” x 10” )

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Phobetor & Co.: Scout

Wood, Leather, Bone, Crocheted twine, Hardware ( 20” x 4” x 2” )

Bone, Leather, Hardware ( 15” x 5” x 5” )

Hand-felted Wool,Leather, Bone, Thread ( 2” x 2” x 2” )

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Using herself as a model, mixed media sculptor Jenna Kriegel ruminates on the intersection of anthropology and consciousness. Kriegel has studied and exhibited in both the United States and Europe as well as delivered talks at symposia with discourse over both art and social justice. Kriegel received her BFA from the University of Oklahoma in 2011, and will soon complete MFA study at the University of Georgia in May 2014.

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Brittainy Lauback was born in Columbus Ohio.

She received a BFA from the University of New Mexico in 2003. Her current work addresses a desire for the real. She seeks to locate signs of life in an increasingly fragmented culture that is highlighted not by actuality but by the appearance of the actual.

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MICHAEL LEVINE Michael Siporin Levine was born and raised outside of Hartford, Connecticut and received his BFA in printmaking at the University of Connecticut.

His work is informed through a combination of personal experience, narrative, and process, using a mixture of

observational and imagined drawing as a foundation.

Through printmaking, drawing, experimental animation, and video installation, he seeks to create loose narratives, often based on autobiographical events and everyday interactions.

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Yu-Hsien Shen grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her BFA in Jewelry and Metals from Iowa State University in 2010 and is a 2014 MFA candidate in Jewelry and Metals at the University of Georgia. Shen cuts paper silhouettes sourced from photographs, she takes of her homeland Taiwan. Most recently she began combining the paper silhouettes into fragments of the photographs. These collages are meant to evoke a longing and emotions she associates with home.

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1— No Reception, Dropped Call Steel, Silver Solder, Cast Cement, Steel Springs 2014 2— …oohhh the humanity! 1938.

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PATRICK C. WALKER Patrick Walter is a multi-media artist whose practice includes working in metal fabrication, collage and video art.

Walter was born in a small town in Northwestern Wisconsin and is influenced by the post-industrial architecture left behind by generations of loggers, miners and factory workers. With diverse interests in history, industrial design and metalworking, Walter’s work is focused on examining contemporary issues through a historical lens.

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1— Hotel Lounge Chair 3D Rendering Digital 3Ds Max Rendering 2014

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QUAN YUAN Growing up in China, Quan has been exposed to different kinds of artistic forms. With a unique eye for color and design, Quan creates his works in varying artistic forms that address issues of both art and design. In 2010, Quan received his BA degree in Beijing Institute of Technology. With his passion and determination in art and design, he came to Lamar Dodd School of Art to achieve his goals in interior design.

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