The Curfman Gallery is proud to host the spring 2009 Masters in Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition featuring the graduate students of Colorado State University in their final thesis show. The exhibition’s opening reception will be held Friday, May 8, 2009 from 4-6pm in the Curfman Gallery. Refreshments will be provided. This year’s MFA show features four graduate artists who have submitted their final thesis works to graduate with a Master in Fine Arts.

Exhibiting Artists include:

Sophia Dillo, a painter, primarily focuses on non-objective abstraction because it, “emphasize a space that exists before labeling, before thinking.” She enjoys the, “as-isness of things,” and tries to remove the ordinary out ordinary objects to reveal its beauty. For her final thesis piece, she is addressing the ideas of light and its ability to be “visible and invisible at the same time,” in her piece Light Works.

Meghan McGrath, a painter as well, creates work that is interactive and personal. Patterns of communication, relationships, and personalities are represented through family portraits. Rather than nostalgia, memory serves as a visual history. The portraits become metaphors for maps describing time, place and linear movement.

Amy Reckley works in drawing converge to suggest singular situations or moments that are between flux and stasis. Her works play upon the notion that psychological spaces are comprised of experience, perception and memory. As architectural interventions on the familiarity of spaces and perspective, drawings play out in sequences of destruction and reinvention. Preexisting perceptions of structures and spaces are broken down to create the illusion of something more fluid, vulnerable and impermanent.

Kenny McBroom, a painting major, finds ambition for his recent work by showing a conceptual parallel between the historical nature of the work itself with seemingly ridiculous or dramatic imagery. Significantly serious topics such as war, economics, history, death, and academia are investigated through the visual language of sci-fi, cartoons, comics, and zombies. He tries to create work that provides the signs and clues for a complicated mystery — a mystery with numerous components.

The 2009 Spring MFA Exhibition will be on display in the Curfman Gallery until September 10, 2009. The Curfman Gallery is located on the south end of the main level of the Lory Student Center, in the heart of Colorado State’s campus. This event is free and open to the public.