An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Feb. 27 and the exhibition will continue through March 20. The students will present their thesis defenses on March 3.
Galleries are open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday. Admission is free.
The featured artists are Kelly Cox, Rachel Lambert and Eric Mullis.
Cox’s project is titled “Fixate” and is a staged environment of stacked TVs and ceramic pelican-vessels, both patterned with geometric slip stenciling. In connecting these two disparate subjects, Cox is making a statement about fabricated material receptacles and the “cultural” and “natural” cycles of creation, value and rejection.
Lambert’s exhibition “Sights-of-Interest,” explores the illusion of protection through the construction of a fiber-based installation that recreates the alluring experience of photographing outside and inside living spaces.
In Mullis’ artwork, “B> Be greater than.,” he has created a product catalog and alter ego that explores ideas related to consumerism and identity, which is presented by way of installation and projections.
B> designs innovative lifestyle products that improve the lives of people everywhere by allowing them to transcend everyday life and reclaim their inner greatness. B> was founded in 2013 by artist and designer Christopher Mollusk in a community center studio in Boise.
Free parking is available for the opening reception in the Liberal Arts parking lot in front of the Hemingway Center.
The MFA in visual arts at Boise State University is designed to immerse students in an interdisciplinary environment that encourages innovative work. The program fosters students’ creative, intellectual and professional development as artists who produce excellent work, are able to discuss and contextualize their work cogently, and who are prepared to enter various career paths. The exhibition, written thesis, and oral defense are the culminating activities of the MFA visual arts degree program.
For more information about the program, contact graduate program director Chad Erpelding atchaderpelding@boisestate.edu.
For more information about the exhibition or the Visual Arts Center at Boise State University, contact Gallery Director Kirsten Furlong at kfurlong@boisestate.edu or 426-3994, or visit the Visual Art Center website.
BY: RALPH POORE PUBLISHED 1:48 PM / FEBRUARY 24, 2015