2022 Selected Art Faculty Exhibition
Candice Chu, Yurie Hayashi, Maura Jasper, Emily Ryan Stark, Sarah Sweeney
September 15 – October 16, 2022
Hours: Mon – Thurs, 10 – 6; Fri, Sat, Sun, 11 – 4
Reception: Thursday, September 15, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Artists’ Talk: Wednesday, September 28, 5 – 6 p.m. in the gallery!
The Schick Gallery presents the 2022 Selected Art Faculty Exhibition featuring works by Candice Chu (Drawing), Yurie Hayashi (Painting), Maura Jasper (Video), Emily Ryan Stark (Fibers) and Sarah Sweeney (Digital / Mixed Media.)
Sarah Sweeney approaches photography and other documentary media through the lens of digital manipulation. Using the computer, she cuts, rearranges, erases, and grows bits of recorded memories. Her raw materials are things like Flickr feeds, auctioned wedding albums, and Googled paparazzi photographs; she then works ‘like a skin grafter, creating ‘confabulations that are an amalgam of memory and imagination.’ At the heart of her work are questions about the media objects we use to preserve our lives. Sweeney earned an MFA in Digital Media from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 2003. Some recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Conversations with My Deepfake Dad at CultureHub in New York, NY, October 2022; OCCCA Today: Celebrating 40 Years at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, California, 2020; and Unseen at Collarworks in Troy, New York, 2019.
Candice Chu uses the flexibility and elasticity of drawing to create elegant and evocative works that engage with personal and universal experiences, smaller and larger instances of beauty. She strives to narrow the gap between our inner life and our day-to-day experiences. Chu received a B.A. in the History of Art and Architecture from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from NYU. She has taught at Pratt Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, and New York University, among other institutions, and has shown her work in New York and Los Angeles. Chu has participated in numerous artist residencies and was a 2020 recipient of a MoMA / CUNY Arts Fellowship.
Yurie Hayashi’s paintings are drawn from painstaking scrutiny of models she builds using cheap objects, fabrics, and scrap wood lying around her studio. These maquettes become her emotional ‘dumpsites’, a cacophony of colors, shapes, and visual puns that reflect her perceptions of a discordant world, including her experiences of prejudice against Asian Americans. Through the process of representation, she draws meaning from dissonance. Hayashi earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2022. She has shown her work in solo shows in Japan and Pennsylvania, and has participated in many group exhibitions in the United States.
Maura Jasper is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of history, pop culture and mass media, and often functions as a bridge between art and non-art experiences. Much of her work is inspired by the lives of regular people, and she uses the trappings of forms not usually considered art – karaoke, aerobics instruction, weather reports – to reveal individual stories. Jasper received her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2008 in Interrelated Media. Her work has been exhibited and screened at venues such as Artist's Space, Vox Populi, and the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston. She is the Artistic Director of That One Film Festivaland a co-founder of the experimental media collective Death Factory. Born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, she was Associate Professor of Intermedia Art at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana from 2008 – 2022.
Emily Ryan Stark’s fiber work consists of sculptural objects, garments, and woven structures. Working predominantly with cloth, thread, and tailoring techniques, she constructs enigmatic objects and compositions that question the systems and norms that entangle us. Stark is influenced by occult and contemplative practices, science fiction, and gender studies. Originally from Western Montana, Stark received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has shown her work in numerous exhibits, including a 2021 solo show titled Dolly at Home ReSource in Missoula, Montana, and the group show Post, at Wasserman Projects in Detroit, Michigan. From 2002 to 2016 she was proprietress and garment designer at Emily Ryan Designs in Portland and Eugene, Oregon, and she has done extensive work as a costume designer.
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