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Foreword Each semester, we look forward to the BFA Exhibition and discover the works of some of the most creative young artists in Miami. It is also an opportunity to think about their future and to wish them the best of success as they embark on what we hope will be a wonderful career in the Arts. The Class of 2013 is a large, eclectic group working in a wide variety of media, and they have been organized and attentive to the responsibilities that come with exhibiting in the professional setting of a museum. Thanks to the guidance of the Art faculty, and Professor Tori Arpad-Cotta, this class has installed one of our most interesting exhibits, and demonstrated that FIU has one of the finest Art Departments in Florida. The Frost Art Museum is proud to show the work of this talented group and wishes them the best for the future.

Carol Damian Director & Chief Curator The Frost Art Museum

Featured Artists Edgaryn Abréu Camila Álvarez Roxy Azuaje Orestes De La Paz Stephanie Farokhnia Robert F. Figueroa Griselle Gaudnik Luis Eduardo Guisasola Fabi Jimeno Robert Kauffman Walter Lara Jesse Meadows Laura Mintz Sebastián Muñoz Asli Ozan Sean Parkinson Andrés Ramirez Cristina Rauseo Ian Roland SophyaVega

Outset Outset is, beginning and ending, a transition, a liminal moment when accepted paradigms fall away and potential is revealed. John Szarkowski said, “Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing.� And while he spoke of photography, the same could be said of art, generally. This moment, these works, all intend to arrest us from the customary, to invite us to see.

Tori Arpad-Cotta Associate Professor of Art & BFA Thesis Coordinator

edgarynabreu@hotmail.com

Edgaryn AbrĂŠu

Karina Latex on canvas 48 x 36 inches 2012

Camila Ă lvarez

www.camilaalvarez.com

Photographs of discarded, raggedy objects suspended in a black, vacuum-like background become a point of departure for conversations about the process of gentrification. The objects are residue–surviving silent witnesses of the complex set of sociopolitical practices and dynamics of power that exist behind the creation of the Art District in the heart of Wynwood, a poor Miami neighborhood.

Residuo (Residue) Archival pigment print 33 x 25 inches 2012

Roxy Azuaje roxyazuaje.com

Magic City, Trailer #52 Silver gelatin print 16 x 16 inches 2012

www.orestesdelapaz.com

Orestes De La Paz

Beauty Queen Stigmata Performance still 2012

Orestes De La Paz uses performance alongside video and/or sound installations to suggest new connections between objects and their rituals. He enjoys using irreverence and sarcasm to balance out moments of religious burlesque and clean form. His work draws from daily observations, a theatrical sensibility, and intensive research.

He is also left-handed.

stephaniefarokhnia@yahoo.com

Stephanie Farokhnia

ยกNo Me Tomes Foto!

Silver gelatin print 25 x 28 inches 2012

Drink Up Archival pigment print 24 x 34 inches 2012

Contemporary shrines inside the home.

Planned or unplanned collections.

Tchotchkes, mementos and whatnots.

Repositories of an intimate nature.

I call these accidental reliquaries.

Robert F. Figueroa

FotoFig.com

Griselle Gaudnik

Cartographie feminine Fiber installation 48 x 120 inches 2013

Luis Eduardo Guisasola photographybyleg.com

“Nature consists not only in itself objectively, but at least just as much as its subjective reflection from the person, spirit, age, looking at it, in the midst of it, and absorbing it: [it] faithfully sends back the characteristic beliefs of the time or individual…”

– Walt Whitman, Specimen days & collect

Untitled Silver gelatin print 24 x 20 inches 2012

Images are stacked together into identifiable figures, constructed and formed, amidst a vacuous black space. Every new layer reveals insights, glimpses of individual idiosyncrasies, and what each person chose to share during our photographic session.

Sessions Archival pigment print 33 x 23 inches 2012

Fabi Jimeno www.fabij.com

Robert Kauffman

www.RobertKauffman.net

Untitled 2, From the series La Vaquita Archival pigment print 20 x 24 inches 2011

Slow Motion Video Portraits Video on dual monitors 49.7 x 29.7 inches each 2012

Walter Lara

walterlara.net

Jesse Meadows jessemeadows.com

The Nightlife Archival pigment prints 32 x 24 inches 2012

Laura Mintz lauramintz.com

Luminous utensils rest on a reflective metal surface, detaching form from function. My photographs transform the physicality of everyday tools into a language of structure and light. Through this process, I contemplate the beauty in the mundane.

Untitled, Mise en Place Silver gelatin print 16 x 16 inches 2012

Untitled, Sand, Gravel & Stone Archival pigment print 24 x 36 inches 2012

SebastiĂĄn MuĂąoz sebastiandmunoz.com

Asli Ozan

asliozan.com

When I am in one place I seek the other; somehow a part of me feels always lost. I’ve lived in three cities on three different continents, and always felt as if I was starting a new life while leaving another. As I walk through the streets of my present city, I strive to find something surprising yet familiar at the same time. I photograph connections between the reflected and real worlds to express my story of duality and contradictions. Art is a bridge to my happiness; yet I am still searching, longing to find a place I call home.

Broken yet happy Archival pigment print 34.75 x 23.75 inches 2011

Sean Parkinson

Sandbox Chromogenic Print 12 x 10 inches 2012

Handmade analog images are rendered onto photo paper. A mixed record of light gets blocked, blurred, and saturated as it passes through the layers of negatives, paper ink jet images, drawings, image transparencies, and translucent objects.

Moon #3 Archival pigment print 20 x 20 inches 2012

AndrĂŠs Ramirez

ramirezandres.com

cristinamarier@aol.com

Cristina Rauseo

L Rey Archival pigment print 20 x 28 inches 2012

Ian Roland sexual/textual_sites Site-specific installation in a forest, (duration 47 minutes) Ten 8 x 10 inches, backlit Plexiglas signs 72 x 84 inches, projected digital video and sound, (duration 1:23 minutes) 2013

The Pink Sea Turtle Archival pigment print 5 x 7 inches 2011

Sophya Vega

Florida International University Administration Mark B. Rosenberg I President Douglas Wartzok I Provost , Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Irma Becerra-Fernandez I Vice President for Engagement Pete Garcia I Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Andres G. Gil ‘86 I Vice President, Sponsored Research Sandra B. Gonzalez-Levy I Senior Vice President, External Relations Robert Grillo I Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Jaffus Hardrick I Vice President, Human Resources Kenneth A. Jessell I Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Administration Howard R. Lipman I Senior Vice President, University Advancement; President & CEO, FIU Foundation Inc. Larry Lunsford I Vice President of Student Affairs Javier I. Marqués ’92, ‘96 I Chief of Staff, Office of the President M. Kristina Raattama I General Counsel John A. Rock, MD, Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs Stephen A. Sauls I Vice President, Governmental Relations Terry Witherell I Vice President of External Relations

Board of Trustees Albert Maury I Chairperson Michael M. Adler I Vice Chairperson Sukrit Agrawal Cesar L. Alvarez Jose J. Armas Jorge L. Arrizurieta Robert T. Barlick, Jr. Marcelo Claure Laura Farinas I Student Trustee Gerald C. Grant, Jr. C. Delano Gray Mayi de la Vega Claudia Puig

Frost Art Museum Carol Damian | Director and Chief Curator Alexis Altamirano | Visitor Services Assistant Julio Alvarez | Security Manager Alison Burrus | MDCPC Museum Educator JeanCarlos Fernandez | Communications Assistant Annette B. Fromm | Museum Studies Coordinator Maria Galeano I Museum Education Assistant Ximena Gallegos | Membership Coordinator Alex Garcia | Digital Archivist Elisabeth Gonzalez | Administrative Assistant Alberto Hernandez | Exhibitions and Sculpture Park Manager Julia P. Herzberg | Adjunct Curator Michael Hughes | Director of Development Greg Jackson | Grants Specialist Debbye Kirschtel-Taylor | Curator of Collections/Registrar Jessica Lettsome | Visitor Services and Events Assistant Miriam Machado | Curator of Education Mary Alice Manella I Budget & Finance Manager Juan Menendez | IT Specialist Amy Pollack | Special Projects D. Gabriella Portela | Marketing and Communications Coordinator Klaudio Rodriguez, | Assistant Curator Jessica Ruiz de Castilla | Visitor Services Assistant Luis Tabares | Security Guard Oliver Tameze-Rivas | Finance Assistant Ragan Williams | Security Guard Emmett Young | Marketing & Communications Assistant Director Sherry Zambrano | Assistant Registrar

FIU Full Time Art + Art History Faculty Jacek J. Kolasinski | Associate Professor | Chairperson Tori Arpad-Cotta | Associate Professor | Ceramics | Installation | BFA Thesis Coordinator Pip Brant | Associate Professor | Fiber Art | Painting R.F. Buckley | Professor | Sculpture William Burke | Professor | Associate Chair Kathy Dambach | Professor | Ceramics Carol Damian | Professor | Art History Eduardo del Valle | Professor | Photography Mirta Gomez | Professor | Photography Daniel Guernsey | Associate Professor | Art History Clive King | Professor Emeritus | Drawing William Maguire | Professor | Photography | Undergraduate Advisor Juan A. Martínez | Professor | Art History Michael Namkung | Assistant Professor | Drawing Alpesh Kantilal Patel | Assistant Professor | Art History | Graduate Director Constantino Manuel Torres | Professor Emeritus Barbara Watts | Associate Professor | Art History Lidu Yi | Assistant Professor | Art History

Visiting Faculty Dustin London | Visiting Instructor | Painting

Gretchen Schnarnagl | Visiting Instructor | Drawing

Part-Time Faculty Harumi Abe | Painting | Outreach Helen Burgos |Figure Drawing Marie S. Chancy | Art History Roxana C. Cocina | Art History Rolando Dal Pezzo | Photography Priscilla Forthman | Photography Annette B. Fromm | Coordinator, Museum Studies Ivania Guererro | Drawing Bernadine Heller-Greenman | Art History Joel Hollander | Art History Venessa Monokian | Digital Media Larry Newberry | Printmaking Peggy Levinson Nolan | Photography | Photo Lab Manager Lissette Schaeffler | Photography Carmen Tiffany | Ceramics |Video Donna Torres | Painting Tom Scicluna| Sculpture

College of Architecture and the Arts Brian Schriner | Dean

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