{"id":90927,"date":"2022-08-16T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=featured-work&#038;p=90927"},"modified":"2022-08-16T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T20:25:56","slug":"mfa-sculpture-thesis-2021","status":"publish","type":"featured-work","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/featured-work\/mfa-sculpture-thesis-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA Sculpture Thesis (2020-2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-background-dim\" style=\"background-image:url(\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/MFA-Sculpture-Thesis-1080x1080-1.jpg)\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>MFA Sculpture Thesis Show (2020-2021)<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>March 3 &#8211; 12, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Sculpture offers a direct, embodied experience of reality through encounter with material presence within physical space.&nbsp; The artists in this exhibition consider sculpture as a means of cultural production that shares material, process, language, and history with our social and physical environment.&nbsp; In other words, their creative work extends beyond its formal characteristics, pointing to the varied and complex areas of specialized labor that are embedded within every aspect of our daily life \u2013 from architecture and physical infrastructure to the production of consumer goods and the myriad collocations of text and image that flood forth from our illuminated screens.&nbsp; These artists make work that is both entangled with the conditions of reality while seeking to fundamentally reconsider much of what we overlook, take for granted, or ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of their years within this program, these five artists have worked to push against the boundaries of their field, and as a result have transformed and amplified their individual creative voices.&nbsp; They found agency within their own artistic practices during this unpredictable time of crisis, both in the context of a global pandemic and our exigent and ongoing national reckoning with history. The resulting work is an offer of&nbsp;<em>realness<\/em>, an encounter with the familiar through the prism of transformation, an invocation of the hope that our connection to the world and to each other will strengthen and endure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Artists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Aris Hu<br>Hannah Minifie<br>Chang Wu<br>Jennifer Kilburn<br>Ania Garcia Llorente<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Virtual Tour<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Virtual Tour: MFA Sculpture Classes of 2020 and 2021 at Stone Gallery\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_U_DFE_xGI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-background has-tertiary-background-color is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-1024x427.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"427\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-1024x427.jpg\" alt=\"David Snyder Sculpture thesis\" class=\"wp-image-77385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-636x265.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-1536x640.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-1200x500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-992x413.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-1500x624.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis-1628x678.jpg 1628w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/files\/2021\/03\/David-Snyder-Sculpture-thesis.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3>Stone Gallery Hosts MFA Sculpture Thesis Exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>2020 and 2021 CFA graduates\u2019 work&nbsp;on display in Spring 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"wp-block-button wp-block-bu-button bu-blocks-block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2021\/stone-gallery-hosts-mfa-sculpture-thesis-exhibition\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Catalogue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe allow=\"clipboard-write\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=mfa_2021_catalog_pages_4.28.21_issuu&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;u=bostonuniversitycollegeoffinearts\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sculpture offers a direct, embodied experience of reality through encounter with material presence within physical space.&nbsp; 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