MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Art, Work, Agency

Noa Hagiladi, Nilou Kazemzadeh, Heather Annette Phillips, Henry Rosenberg

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The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University opens its 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibitions with a seven-week series of concurrent solo shows by 29 second-year students.

Collectively, the works reflect a variety of discipline-centric and mixed-media practices that celebrate visual narratives and explore the interplay of diverse materials, digital processes as a companion to hand fabrication, draftsmanship in printmaking, and multicultural perspectives and personal identity in graphic design, illustration, and UX/UI design.

"The depth and breadth of these works is incredible and inspiring," said Associate Professor Sharyn O'Mara, Director for the Master of Fine Arts program. "They demonstrate deep engagement in a broad range of contemporary issues that explore past, present, and future images and imaginaries, objects, and mediations. They both expand within and defy traditional disciplinary boundaries, and the results are powerful, provocative, political, and poetic."

When they graduate, Tyler's MFA Class of 2024 will join a community of distinguished alumni that includes Moe Brooker (MFA '72); Syd Carpenter (MFA '76), Edgar Heap of Birds (MFA '79); Harriete Estel Berman (MFA '80); Virgil Marti (MFA '90); Anoka Faruqee (MFA '97); Trenton Doyle Hancock (MFA '00); Will Villalongo (MFA '01); Erin Riley (MFA '09); Amber Cowan (MFA '11), Sijia Chen (MFA '11), Kara Springer (MFA '17), Warith Taha (MFA '20), and Isaac Scott (MFA '21), among others.

Location: Temple Contemporary.