Anuradha Vikram
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January 25-February 11, 2012
Opening Wednesday, January 25, 5-8 PM
Exhibiting Artists:
Dru Anderson Dusadee Huntrakul Erin Johnson Sahar Khoury Jess Rowland Sean Talley
The Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley is pleased to debut our MFA class of 2013. Introductions: 2012 First Year MFA Exhibition provides an opportunity to preview the work of these six emerging artists, who make art in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, assemblage, installation, sound and video.
Dru Anderson is currently deconstructing and reconstructing dreams using pastels as her medium. Her installation at Worth Ryder includes paintings and sculptures.
Dusadee Huntrakul works conceptually with found objects and installation. He also draws and builds things.
Utilizing video, audio, writing and sculpture, Erin Johnson's work examines the roles faith, technology, and desire play in communication. Recently, she has explored the entangled histories of the Spiritualist Church and the telegraph.
Sahar Khoury constructs formal, figurative, and architectural structures out of salvageable materials. She employs paint-dipping, cloth-wrapping, papier-mâché, and silkscreen in her installations, which vacillate between excessive ornamentation and skeletal.
Jess Rowland's artwork is Sound, Neuroscience, Video and Concept. She uses homemade electronics to integrate voice into everyday objects, made to mix and re-mix methods, ideologies, things that aren’t supposed to go together, into a whole which breaks artificial boundaries; breaks functionality or subverts it.
Made from unassuming materials such as plaster and graphite powder, Sean Talley's sculptures and drawings display a heightened aesthetic concern that recalls the formal inquiries of 20th century art practices.
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Worth Ryder Art Gallery
UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice
The Worth Ryder Art Gallery is located at 116 Kroeber Hall, and is open Tuesday through Saturday, Noon to 5pm. The gallery has served as a cultural and artistic hub for students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty, and the Bay Area community for over forty years. The gallery serves primarily as an exhibition platform for emerging contemporary artistic strategies and methodologies.
Archive of past shows can be viewed at https://picasaweb.google.com/ucbdapls
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