Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

MFA Thesis Exhibitions 2024, Part 1

 

The Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine is pleased to present the solo exhibitions of MFA candidates Alberto Lule, Gintautė Skvernytė, Joshua Thomen, and Mona Welch. This is the first round of 2024 MFA thesis exhibitions. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, April 20 from 2–5pm.

Alberto Lule  |  Displacement Erratic
Examines the displacement of the body through various systems. Artworks attempt to find connections between overlooked systems of power, often seen as unrelated.

On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time

This exhibition is organized in coordination with the release of Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings, published by Bloomsbury Press. Following the book’s lead, the exhibition focuses on “project-based” work by a younger generation of artists who have worked closely with Kelly. The exhibition position’s Kelly’s WLM Demo Remix as its thesis.

Think of it as Money!

Think of it as Money! presents a constellation of artworks, in which the legacy of Hercule Florence—the 19th century French inventor—is the protagonist of a durational dreamscape, one in which money is the shapeshifting medium, bending and stretching through time.