ON VIEW
May 9 – 18, 2024
EXHIBITION OPENING
Thurs, May 9, 5 – 7 pm
May 9 – 18, 2024
EXHIBITION OPENING
Thurs, May 9, 5 – 7 pm
www.kaitgallaugher.com
@kaitsg.art
Kait Gallaugher
Kait Gallaugher is an artist, teacher, and writer who works in a broad range of media from wearables, to zines, to interactive sculpture. The common thread through all of their work is human interaction, which stems from their experience as an educator. Gallaugher attended SUNY College at New Paltz and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts Education with a Concentration in Metal in 2021, before spending a year working in public schools while applying to graduate school. During this gap year they were able to exhibit their work in group shows at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz, New York, and at Lagoon New York as a part of New York City Jewelry Week. Their thesis research in Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA program is centered around interactive print installations focused on celebrating posters as an activist practice and to engage with the community. While at MECA&D Gallaugher has worked as a Writing Coach in the Joanne Waxman Library, where they support students with things like time management, professional writing, and studio research. Moving forward in their practice, Gallaugher plans to continue making zines and posters, and continue collaborating with other artists on new projects.
Kait Gallaugher is a community oriented artist who works in a variety of media from installations, to wearables and zines. Their most recent projects have involved both collaborating with other artists and inviting viewer participation in interactive print installations. These installations borrow language from street infrastructure and publishing practices to bring attention to the anonymous collaborations that happen on places like telephone poles and street signs. Participants are invited to make posters of their own to add to the accumulation that grows over the course of the exhibition. Gallaugher also has a practice of collecting imagery from these accumulations of printed matter. This practice is rooted in a lineage of queer and punk zines as well as protest art, and through participating, people are invited to have more agency in the gallery space.
@kaitsg.art
Kait Gallaugher
Kait Gallaugher is an artist, teacher, and writer who works in a broad range of media from wearables, to zines, to interactive sculpture. The common thread through all of their work is human interaction, which stems from their experience as an educator. Gallaugher attended SUNY College at New Paltz and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Visual Arts Education with a Concentration in Metal in 2021, before spending a year working in public schools while applying to graduate school. During this gap year they were able to exhibit their work in group shows at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz, New York, and at Lagoon New York as a part of New York City Jewelry Week. Their thesis research in Maine College of Art & Design’s MFA program is centered around interactive print installations focused on celebrating posters as an activist practice and to engage with the community. While at MECA&D Gallaugher has worked as a Writing Coach in the Joanne Waxman Library, where they support students with things like time management, professional writing, and studio research. Moving forward in their practice, Gallaugher plans to continue making zines and posters, and continue collaborating with other artists on new projects.
Kait Gallaugher is a community oriented artist who works in a variety of media from installations, to wearables and zines. Their most recent projects have involved both collaborating with other artists and inviting viewer participation in interactive print installations. These installations borrow language from street infrastructure and publishing practices to bring attention to the anonymous collaborations that happen on places like telephone poles and street signs. Participants are invited to make posters of their own to add to the accumulation that grows over the course of the exhibition. Gallaugher also has a practice of collecting imagery from these accumulations of printed matter. This practice is rooted in a lineage of queer and punk zines as well as protest art, and through participating, people are invited to have more agency in the gallery space.
The MFA Thesis Exhibition for the Class of 2024 is a multidisciplinary exhibition unified by an urgency each of these MFA candidates expresses for what they see as fundamental to our shared experience of an increasingly disconnected world. With an emphasis on the personal, and at times the anecdotal, the artwork featured by these 12 artists varies in media to include ceramics, installation, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, video, sculpture, and zines. Seen together, these thesis projects hybridize a range of conceptual themes and material approaches as they relate to visual culture, the political landscape, and contemporary art practice. The nature of this work and research demonstrates the caliber and cultural relevance achieved by these graduates of Maine College of Art & Design’s Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program. Our studio-based curriculum creates a transformative learning experience and is designed to encourage students to follow where their work leads them, supporting them to define a sustainable vision for their own art practice through individualized research, critical analysis, and curatorial experimentation.
Institute of Contemporary Art
at Maine College of Art & Design
522 Congress St. Portland, ME 04101
Gallery Hours:
Wed–Sun, 11:00am–5:00pm,
Thursday, 11:00am–7:00pm