spring 2023
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Candidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.
MFA exhibitions from the Division of Ceramic Art (CA), Electronic Integrated Arts (EIA) and Sculpture / Dimensional Studies (SDS) are held on campus. Painting MFA Alfred/Düsseldorf exhibitions will be held in Germany this spring, and a selection of work will be on view in the summer months in our galleries.
Exhibition receptions will be held on Saturdays from 6-8pm, with the exception of the last exhibition, which will open on Friday. An online catalog of graduate student work is posted here usually a week after commencement.
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
My work focuses on American Ashkenazi and Jewish history. Influenced by my reformed Jewish community in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, I have explored how Jewishness has assimilated into Americanness. I am drawn to...
View Gabrielle Egnater's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
I make pots. I enjoy asking both nuanced questions of form as well as big-picture questions of what pots do in our world, but it is the latter which has guided my research this year. Objects can acquire their own kind of agency...
View Jake Brodsky's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
The culturally specific gender discourse around women’s everyday practices and objects has influenced my life and my work. The everyday labor of homemaking comes with its own joy and pain. The narrative of my work...
View Javaria Ahmad's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
Reflecting upon my childhood, growing up in a traditional white American style suburban family I felt controlled by the socially acceptable norms that were established within my family and the community. Traditionally...
View Kate Herron's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
Immersed in the realms of DIY software development and hardware hacking, my work addresses a wide variety of topics and aesthetics exploring technologies from the present and the past, and experiment combining them into hybrid...
View Kevin Kripper's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
A long exhale, a prolonged glance that shifts out of focus, thoughts of then, now, if, and when. How is it exactly that we perceive? In my paintings, I question how the mind works: how one can experience the space they occupy...
View Sophia Simental's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
“Mana” meaning “inner self” and “dir” meaning “a place” are Sanskrit words for Mandir referring Temple. This paper is a...
View Shushank Shrestha's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
I was born and raised in former Czechoslovakia. Having had the experience of living in a totalitarian regime, I see aspects of its grip resurfacing again in the present world, but on a global scale. The apprehension of the...
View Thomas Penc's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Victoria Walton b. 1994 is an emerging visual artist based in Baltimore. They have an MFA in Ceramic Art from NYSCC at Alfred University and a BFA with a focus in ceramics from Towson University. Victoria explores the wonder...
View Victoria Walton's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Like the shadow of an idea not yet fully thought, a shadow from the future… the ecological thought creeps over other ideas until nowhere is left untouched by its dark presence. Timothy Morton, The Ecological...
View Rose Schreiber's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
In my art I try to make feelings visible. I see the world as a place that gathered feelings through history and still holds them. Some of these feelings are bad, some indifferent, some interesting and some extraordinary. It is...
View Vivian Wang's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Sylvia Plath, Elm The primordial darkness, fragments of thought and feeling...
View Sheyda Azar's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
Personal memory, cultural background, political anxiety, and contradiction are inseparable dialogues in Zihao Chen’s painting practice. This year, the reaction to the political environment in China has become an...
View Zihao Chen's Exhibit