2015 MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog

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Thesis Exhibition April 11 – May 17

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Thesis Exhibition

Xi Nan (南希) Russell K. Prigodich Alanna Schull Anser Shaukat Denise Sokolsky Yishu Wang (王一舒) Katie Wild Ge Yang (杨戈)

April 11 – May 17, 2015

University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street New Bedford, MA 02740

June 2 – 28, 2015 Bromfield Gallery 450 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02118

Greetings from the Office of the Dean

On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, we are pleased to introduce the 2015 edition of the MFA Thesis Exhibition. This public presentation caps two to three years of ongoing creative research in a variety of visual arts disciplines in the fields of Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts. Following individual oral defenses and completion of the MFA Thesis Report, these students will celebrate the singular achievement of obtaining the advanced professional degree in the visual arts, the Master of Fine Arts, at Commencement this May. In June, selections from this exhibition will be on display at Bromfield Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston. This will be the fourth consecutive year our soon-to-be alumni will be formally introduced to this vibrant and thriving arts scene. The exhibition will also serve to reconnect us with the UMass Dartmouth community of alumni and friends living and working in the Greater Boston Region.

On behalf of Chancellor Divina Grossman, Provost Mohammad Karim, and Associate Provost Tesfay Meressi, we invite you to join us in celebrating the accomplishments of this talented class of MFA candidates, and wishing them well in their future creative endeavors.

Adrian Tió, Dean

Megan Abajian, Interim Assistant Dean

Notes from the Gallery Director

 This exhibition brings together 15 artists presenting their work in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and site-specific installation. Each artist went through a similar process going from inspiration to the less glamorous, sometimes tedious, hard work of bringing their ideas to life. How do you know when the piece is finished? How do you know if it is any good? How do you know which one is the one to present to the public?

For me, the exhibition’s curator, guiding the artists through these questions and trying to understand each artist’s creative process is both interesting and rewarding. Along with the faculty advisors, I help our students make their choices and then lay out how each piece can be best showcased individually and in relation with its surroundings. This curatorial process emerges first as an idea, then as names penciled on a floor plan.

These steps are followed by the placement of the work and noticing how each piece relates to the space and to each other so that both the artwork and the totality of the space are mutually enhanced. We then wait for the final part of the puzzle to emerge our visitors and their connection to what has been produced and presented. I am honored to be a part of this creative process.

Viera Levitt, Gallery Director

left page: A. Kralovic - Tile 11 J. Benzaquen - Even Now (detail) right page: A. Shaukat - Holes in White Y. Wang - Little Deer

Jessica Benzaquen Artisanry - Jewelry/Metals jikajames@hotmail.com www.jikajames.com

BIOGRAPHY Jessica Benzaquen was born in southern California and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2006, she received her BFA in Jewelry/Metal Arts from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. Jessica worked as a bench jeweler, a teaching assistant at various craft schools and in 2008, she moved to New York to work for Phil Fraley Productions fabricating one-of-a-kind mounts for fossilized dinosaur bones. She was invited to do an Artist Residency at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and in 2009 she was the recipient of a Searchlight Emerging Artist Award from the American Craft Council. Jessica’s work has been exhibited at the ACC Baltimore Arts and Crafts Fair in Maryland, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle, Velvet Da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco and Crimson and Laurel Gallery in Bakersville, NC. Her work can be found in Lark Books: 500 Vessels and Chasing and Repousse: Methods Ancient and Modern.

Currently, Jessica is completing her MFA in Artisanry with a focus in Jewelry/Metal Arts. After graduation, she intends to continue with her artistic practice and pursue a teaching position at the university level.

S TAT E M E N T My Thesis work is a reflection of my curiosity and reverence for the natural world and the delicate healing process that the human body and mind undergo in order to cope with grief after a physical or psychological trauma. The forms and surfaces of each of my pieces draw upon the inherent similarities between the natural world and the human body.

Through the manipulation of materials, I create fragile forms that begin to echo nature and human anatomy while creating a contrast between damage and repair. The act of reflecting on my past and how it affects me in the present is translated into each object, taking on the specific characteristics of my multifaceted emotions. My intention is to create objects that embody these complexities and reveal the space between struggle and resolution as it relates to loss.

Anew Latex rubber, expandable foam, copper, Polymer clay, steel pins, pigment 7” x 4” x 6 ½” Detail: Even Now III Latex rubber, expandable foam, glass beads, steel pins, pigment 4” x 4” x 3”

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Mary Black

Artisanry - Ceramics marykblack7@gmail.com maryisthenewblack.com

BIOGRAPHY Mary Black was raised in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina. In 2011, she received her BFA in painting from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Although the majority of her work was based in a two-dimensional format, Mary decided to follow her desire to form ideas through the use of ceramics.

This medium allows her to express both her painting background and her sculptural intrigues. She is currently completing her MFA degree in Artisanry with a concentration in ceramics.

S TAT E M E N T I am insecure which in turn makes my sculptures insecure. I hand build ceramic forms that I feel connected to or that I believe in… only to quickly shift into doubt and hesitation on how others will perceive them. This is where surface comes in as a way to mask the moments on the form that I am uncomfortable with in their “naked” or exposed state. Surface decoration works to both distract and draw one in. Although I believe the decorative elements of mark making, glazing, decals, and lusters are ways to hide the insecurities - they are still visible. My forms are the reflection and response of trying to balance the positive and negative emotions and build an acceptance for both.

A Part of Me Stoneware, underglaze pencil, glaze 19” x 17” x 24” Detail: Late Bloomer Stoneware, glaze, decals 21” x 23” x 23”

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Andrea Abarca Coutts Fine Arts - Drawing

andreaabarcacoutts@gmail.com www.andreaabarcacoutts.com

BIOGRAPHY Andrea Abarca Coutts was born in Iquique, Chile and emigrated to the US with her family in 1991, settling in central New Jersey. Andrea found drawing early on as a means to break the language barrier before she was able to speak English. She received her BFA from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she specialized in Drawing and Mixed Media with minors in Art History and Early Childhood Development. Andrea has worked at various non-profit arts organizations such as Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth, RISD Project Open Door and Artworks, New Bedford as both administrator and instructor. She studied Community + Non-Profit Art Education at the Rhode Island School of Design where her thesis work consisted of a survey of arts programs for incarcerated populations. Though she enjoyed teaching, Andrea missed making work regularly. In 2012, Andrea started a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate program in Drawing at UMass Dartmouth. She was invited to join the MFA program in 2013. Upon graduation, Andrea hopes to continue teaching at the college level and begin showing her work internationally.

S TAT E M E N T My work is meant to explore the female body pre-sexual encounter. I used large-scale drawing and installation to further expand the idea of intimacy of space and body. The viewer is given a dominant perspective over the figures. While using the intimately personal space of a bed, the female is looked at from above by the viewer. Naked and vulnerable, these figures are shown in various emotional states when being exposed. Each piece evokes some sort of vulnerability manifested as excitement, fear, humiliation or anticipation, as you enter her space, welcomed or not.

Turn and Sit Charcoal and acrylic on paper 68.5” x 50” Detail: Pellucid II Lithography crayon, pencil, watercolor and gouache on Duralar

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Nick Heyl

Artisanry - Jewelry/Metals nickheyl@mail.com nickheyl.com

BIOGRAPHY Nick Heyl spent the early years of his childhood orphanage-hopping in what he describes as “the ice-cube of a country known as Russia”, where he took care of himself and his little sister - one hand holding hers and the other thieving in someone’s pocket. When Nick was eight, they were both adopted by a caring American family in Raleigh, North Carolina. For Nick, the newfangled and unfamiliar place presented a cross-cultural learning curve, which he would later explore in his undergraduate and graduate bodies of work. In 2012, Nick graduated from East Carolina University with a Bachelors degree concentrating in Metal Design. Nick is currently completing his graduate studies in Jewelry/Metals with the goal of becoming an artist, designer, and educator.

S TAT E M E N T Moments of my past. Insecurities within my present. An inability to put trust in others. These are all sources that inform the art objects I make - which deal with intimate interactions between people and indicate or reference issues of trust, vulnerability, and control. I explore these notions by means of mechanically and sculpturally inclined objects rooted in the jewelry format; grounded in narrative and shaped through metaphor, I endeavor to expose the often dichotomous nature of relationships and their geneses.

In my work, there is a desire to get close, to touch, to feel the warmth of a hug, or the spark of a hand, but there is also fear and uncertainty for the latent baggage that comes with such actions.

Artifice: Hand-holding 925 silver, steel, magnets, glass Detail: (same)

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Sarah Jenea Jones Artisanry - Fibers

SarahJeneaJones@gmail.com www.SarahJeneaJones.com

BIOGRAPHY Sarah Jenea Jones grew up in Dallas, Texas. In 2011, she received her BFA with a concentration in Fibers, receiving honors at the University of North Texas. In 2012, she assisted Nick Cave at the University of North Texas in the “Heard” Performance. Sarah is currently working on her MFA in Artisanry with a concentration in Fibers at UMass Dartmouth.

S TAT E M E N T I see my work as dissecting emotions, almost as a scientific approach to understanding them. I am studying the process of how my thoughts lead me to my emotional state. It is a mapping of this thought process as I recollect memories and feelings. I am trying to hide these constantly swirling thoughts from the world. I choose when they should be revealed and when they should stay hidden. I am inspired by natural elements like decayed leaves that give a sense of fragility like that of a fragile thought that can take over your emotions. I use a variety of materials and processes to express these ideas, like cut paper, hand woven cloth, drawing, and painting.

Pensieve Handcut mylar, vellum, cotton, watercolor, ink 80” x 80” Detail: (same)

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George Manuel Karos Artisanry - Ceramics

karosceramics@gmail.com www.georgekarosceramics.com

BIOGRAPHY George Manuel Karos was born in Silver Spring, MD and grew up in Frederick, MD. Graduating with Departmental Honors in 2011, he received a dual degree in Ceramics and Spanish Language/Literature with a minor in Art History at Towson University in Baltimore, MD. After graduation, George enrolled in the graduate program in Artisanry at UMass Dartmouth, with a concentration in Ceramics. His work has been featured at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA and Artspace in Richmond, VA. S TAT E M E N T In my work I investigate some of the awkward moments of a person’s sexuality. My ceramic sculptures tease and provoke the viewer to become intimate with the piece. The sculptures’ relationship to the human body offers the opportunity for the viewer to discover parts of the work that may be hidden, establish their relationship to a protruding form, or to better understand their relationship to others surrounding them. My coil built ceramic forms are constructed from multiple interlocking parts surfaced with various media such as glaze, terra sigillata, silicon, latex, fibers, and rubber to create a sense of tactility and sensuality. The means in which my forms provoke the viewer are just as much from the sensuous curves of the form as well as the coyness of the composition.

Wallflower Clay, terra sigillata, glaze, latex Detail: Swing Clay, terra sigillata, flocking, bungie

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Amanda Kralovic Fine Arts - Printmaking akralart@yahoo.com www.amandakralovic.com

BIOGRAPHY Amanda Kralovic was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, New York. She attended Central Connecticut State University on an athletic swimming scholarship and received her BA in Studio Art/Illustration in 2004. Following undergraduate studies, she relocated to Boston where she continued taking classes in the visual arts at both Massachusetts College of Art and The School of the Museum Fine Arts, while working full-time at a local medical center. Amanda is currently completing her MFA in Fine Arts with a focus in Printmaking.

S TAT E M E N T Through my work, I find myself searching for the same feelings I once had in the pool. To me, the pool was seen as a sequential series of shapes that had a deep connection to my thoughts as well as my physical being throughout the physical process. My work is a translation of my inner thoughts and emotions as they form on the paper. My images are a build up of individual layers that when brought together form relationships between the colors and the shapes causing patterns to appear.

Representing both my physical and emotional struggles throughout my life’s journey, my intent is to symbolically portray my heart and mind. It is within both the physical and mental process that my work becomes a place that I can easily understand. By finding this connection between these shapes, my physical body, and my mind’s thoughts, I once again feel complete.

Preparation & Recovery Lithography 8” x 8” each tile Detail: (same)

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Xi Nan (南希) Artisanry - Ceramics nanxi.art@gmail.com

BIOGRAPHY Xi Nan was born and raised in Jilin, China. She earned an IB from Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway, 2007. In 2011, she received her BA in studio art at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. She took several ceramics courses at Maryland Institute College of Art and worked as an intern at Baltimore Clayworks from 2011 to 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. Xi’s work has exhibited nationally including juried shows in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; and Washington, DC. She intends to continue her art journey through both the profession of teaching and interdisciplinary studio practice following the completion of her MFA in Artisanry with a concentration in Ceramics.

S TAT E M E N T We are the architects of our own psychological spaces. We design the spaces subconsciously, and we are also the residents there as well as in reality. Sometimes, we are lost, or get trapped in our own mental space; we look for the exit sign to lead the way out to a haven, a way to find inner peace. As my own architect, I don’t need any keys or locks to my psychological space. My consciousness is my pass—allowing myself to go through and maintain certain spaces. I am fascinated by architecture and mechanical apparatus—these are metaphorical devices for me, providing access to reflect and evaluate my artwork, and my inner world. In a way, I see my thesis work as a healing process for myself, and I hope it can also heal others.

Seed Pod Porcelain, Plexiglas, laser cut light bulb, seeds, bobbin case 11” x 8” x 10” Detail: (same)

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Russell K. Prigodich Fine Arts - Sculpture

rkprigodich@gmail.com www.russellprigodich.com

BIOGRAPHY Russell K. Prigodich received a BA in Studio Arts from Saint Michaels College, VT. He then furthered his education by taking classes in a variety of sculptural mediums at the Hartford Art School. He continued to purse art with a residency at Billings Forge Community Works, CT and an internship with the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, VT. These experiences led to his position as studio technician at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, where he soon became the studio manager. Following an acceptance to the UMass Dartmouth, he is now in his thesis year as a candidate for a Masters of Fine Arts.

S TAT E M E N T Through our day to day interactions, items and places become endowed with psychological content.

The sculptures in my current body of work explore tactile, emotional, and conceptual experiences through materials, objects, and space. The steel structures create a context for the soap. Both the material and the object evoke a tactile memory. Soap associates with skin and flesh. It is a piece taken from the whole of our body and projected out into the world. The sculpture is a fragment, but contains the immensity of the whole.

Soap is hygroscopic; it will retain or lose moisture depending on the level of humidity. Inhaling and exhaling the air, soap breathes. This causes it to shrink, curl and crack, aging into its space within or around the steel structure. The soap lives alongside us recording the inevitability of time to which we are all subjected.

Box 2 Soap, steel 16” x 10” x 18” Detail: Drawer 2/Box 4—Inside/Outside Soap, steel 39” x 15” x 9”

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Alanna Schull Fine Arts - Sculpture

Alannaschull@gmail.com ArtbyAlanna.com

BIOGRAPHY Alanna Schull grew up in the small farm town of Killingworth, Connecticut.

In 2010 she received her BFA in Art Education from UMass Dartmouth. Since then, Alanna moved to Massachusetts to continue her graduate studies at UMass Dartmouth, pursuing her Master of Art Education, which she completed in 2014. Alanna is looking forward to entering the teaching profession after obtaining her MFA. S TAT E M E N T My sculptures are inspired by my interpretation of place: nature, home. Through these personal adventures, I gather inspiration from visual surroundings of the landscape, history of the location, and my own emotional connection to the space. My interest lies in using natural materials to construct large-scale sculptures that visually and physically command space. I focus on using linear material to create forms that show movement and balance using line, shape, pattern, and repetition. Combining my love for nature with abstraction, I create sculptures that invent new experiences and personal definition of place.

History, Time, Change Birch saplings, wood dowels 11” x 7” x 9” Detail: (same)

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Anser Shaukat Fine Arts - Illustration

ansershaukat@gmail.com acupofuncertainty.wordpress.com

BIOGRAPHY Anser Shaukat spent his formative years doodling in text book margins in the coastal city of Karachi, Pakistan. He graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Design. He worked as an Assistant Project Manager developing comic books, TV shows, and board games for a production company before assuming the mantle of creative manager at an advertising agency. There he had the opportunity to develop television, radio, print, and digital campaigns for various local and international brands. In 2012, he left to pursue a Master’s degree in Illustration at UMass Dartmouth as a Fulbright Scholar. During this time, Anser traversed the U.S., from West to East coast as part of the Millennial Trains Project, documenting its rich cultural landscape. He is concluding his MFA program with hopes of revitalizing illustration and graphic novels in his own country.

S TAT E M E N T Through the excavation of my past, I seek to resurrect the paracosmic world of childhood that exists beneath the strata of adult experience; a lost world filled with rare relics and sacred souvenirs, each with a story to tell. The visual depiction of this memoryscape as a mosaic narrative in graphic novel format, weaves these stories with the tapestry of the adult mind and reveals the symbolic significance uncovered through past memories. I rediscover ordinary moments that have crystalized over time into precious gems with renewed meaning. The deconstruction of memory and preservation of the layers hidden beneath allow me to reconstruct these significant moments.

The anamnesis of this past life emerges formally in the layering of graphite and watercolour through digital interpolation. I seek to connect these metaphors and allegories by finding shape relationships between the symbolic objects associated with the anecdotes and using contrasting symmetries, colour, value, light, and scale to highlight the concepts and ideas they represent as a surreal graphic narrative.

Internal Horizons Graphite with digital manipulation Detail: Marble Light Graphite and acrylic with digital interpolation

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Denise Sokolsky Artisanry - Fibers

dmsokolsky@gmail.com www.denisesokolsky.com

BIOGRAPHY Denise Sokolsky’s artistic work draws upon both her background in science and her life-long love of art. She earned a B. Sc. in Medical Technology from Merrimack College, North Andover, MA. Denise worked in microbiology laboratories and was involved in DNA research. Simultaneously, she pursued her art, working with watercolors and textiles and eventually exhibiting in Canada and the United States. Upon completion of a Fibre Arts - Textile Design Diploma at St. Lawrence College Kingston, Ontario, she entered the MFA Graduate program in Artisanry with a concentration in Fibers at UMass Dartmouth. She continues to draw upon her scientific background to expand the dimensions of her art.

S TAT E M E N T Abstract in form, my work is a personal expression using color, light, and translucency. I use color as the emotional component, articulating my responses to life’s situations in dye or paint. The translucent substrate of the work is as minimal as possible, allowing light to gather around the subject, enhancing both the clarity and the ambiguity of the shapes within the multidimensional surfaces. My work has a liquid, rhythmic quality reflecting my love for sea and symphony. The structures within this fluidity often resemble molecular cells as seen through a microscope, which speak to my scientific profession. Subconsciously, the scientist merges and collaborates with the artist.

My goal is to draw attention to and reflect upon the quiet, unnoticed beauty of natural phenomena that are overlooked, disregarded, or taken for granted. In the process of making and within the art itself, I strive to convey my sensory connection to these unobserved wonders around us.

Beyond Printed acetate 23” x 23” Detail: Nebulous Hand-dyed silk organza 52” x 72”

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Yishu Wang (王一舒) Visual Design - Illustration yishu777@gmail.com yishuwan.net

BIOGRAPHY Yishu Wang was born in Shenyang, a city in the northeast part of China. From age 9 to 15, she lived with her parents in a small town in Nagano province, Japan. After moving back to China in 2003, Yishu received her BFA degree at Xi’an Academy of Fine Art. Yishu then enrolled in the graduate program at UMass Dartmouth. She is pursuing an MFA in Illustration, translating her own experiences into images.

S TAT E M E N T My images represent the surreal world of my dreams combined with the sweetness of my childhood memories. In a sense, my artwork is my emotional shelter. The merging of little girls with flowers in my work symbolizes wonder and innocence. However, my images reveal a hint of more complex emotions under the surface of that sweet purity. There is sometimes in the eyes of my characters the suggestion of kept secrets, a glimpse of lost innocence. I have tried to capture the subtle details of expression that reveal both the joy of childhood and the sadness of its limited time.

Secret Bunny Oil paint and colored pencil on wood 24” x 24” Detail: Mask Digital drawing 24” x 24”

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Katie Wild

Fine Arts - Painting katie.wild25@gmail.com www.katiewild.com

BIOGRAPHY Katie Melinda Wild graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BFA in Painting and Illustration and a BA in English with a creative writing concentration. From there, she completed a post baccalaureate year at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Tufts) and is now completing an MFA in Painting at UMass Dartmouth. Her figurative self-portraits push the boundaries of traditional oil painting with non-traditional surfaces. Wild’s work has been shown at Bradley International Airport, in group shows at SMFA, New Bedford’s Gallery 244 and Gallery X, in an invitation-only group show at the Raven Tooth Gallery in New York, a solo exhibition at UConn’s Benton Museum, and a solo show in UMass Dartmouth’s Corsair Cafe. She has been teaching while finishing her MFA with hopes of teaching in the future.

S TAT E M E N T We all put on facades and are pushed to conform to ideals around us, particularly in today’s young generation. I utilize the rainbow to expound upon the spectrum of human nature’s most colorful corruptions. Using myself as a model for my reference photos, I create new aliases, which break certain molds of social construction, especially those of a young woman. I also defy conventional oil portrait painting by using nontraditional surfaces. Each figure pushes the boundaries of two and three dimensions, challenges preconceptions of beauty and morality, and struggles against hierarchy through various forms of relational aesthetics. The primary and secondary colors in this series embody the complexities of a single moment in time in order to confront the viewers’ own priorities in life.

Orange Ya Gonna Help Me Out? Oil and acrylic on plywood, 28.5” x 41” x 21.5” Detail: Going Green Oil and acrylic on insulation foam, 36” x 72”

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Ge Yang

Artisanry - Wood/Furniture geyangwood@gmail.com Geyangwood.com

BIOGRAPHY Ge Yang was born and raised in Qingdao, a German and Japanese colonized multicultural city in China. He earned a BA in Environmental Art Design in 2009 from Xi’an Polytechnic University located in what was the capital city of China during the Tang dynasty. Multiple cultural influences and family background encouraged him to go abroad and continue his education in furniture design and making. Currently, he is completing his MFA in Furniture Design at UMass Dartmouth.

S TAT E M E N T As a furniture designer and maker who grew up as a progeny of a famous carpenter in my hometown, I am infatuated with Chinese traditional wood furniture. I am very respectful of traditional woodworking and handmade furniture, but also am interested in modern technology and current design styles. Using the latest woodworking technology, I have balanced my recent works between traditional and modern methods, different cultural elements and universal visual language. My experience growing up in China and becoming furniture maker in the U.S. defines my unique style.

Ice Bench Mahogany 19” x 47” x 20” Detail: Water Table Mahogany 22” x 50” x 16”

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Index Jessica Benzaquen Artisanry - Jewelry/Metals jikajames@hotmail.com jikajames.com

George Manuel Karos Artisanry - Ceramics karosceramics@gmail.com georgekarosceramics.com

Mary Black Artisanry - Ceramics marykblack7@gmail.com maryisthenewblack.com

Amanda Kralovic Fine Arts - Printmaking akralart@yahoo.com amandakralovic.com

Andrea Abarca Coutts Fine Arts - Drawing andreaabarcacoutts@gmail.com andreaabarcacoutts.com

Xi Nan (ĺ?—ĺ¸Œ) Artisanry - Ceramics nanxi.art@gmail.com

Nick Heyl Artisanry - Jewelry/Metals nickheyl@mail.com nickheyl.com Sarah Jenea Jones Artisanry - Fibers sarahjeneajones@gmail.com sarahjeneajones.com

Russell K. Prigodich Fine Arts - Sculpture rkprigodich@gmail.com russellprigodich.com Alanna Schull Fine Arts - Sculpture alannaschull@gmail.com ArtbyAlanna.com

Anser Shaukat Visual Design - Illustration ansershaukat@gmail.com acupofuncertainty.wordpress.com Denise Sokolsky Artisanry - Fibers dmsokolsky@gmail.com denisesokolsky.com Yishu Wang (王一舒) Visual Design - Illustration yishu777@gmail.com yishuwan.net Katie Wild Fine Arts - Painting katie.wild25@gmail.com katiewild.com Ge Yang Artisanry - Wood/Furniture geyangwood@gmail.com geyangwood.com

left page: A. Shaukat - Titanic Y. Wang - Moth right page: K. Wild - Hungry Yellow Bananas N. Heyl - Memoir to My Mother

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DESIGN COORDINATION AND EDITING: Jessica Fernandes Gomes PHOTOGRAPHS: Archives of the students, Viera Levitt EDITORS: Josette Cormier, Charlotte Hamlin, Viera Levitt PUBLICATION ASSISTANT: Xi Nan DESIGN LAYOUT AND PRINTING: Mallard Printing, Inc.

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