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
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@kaitlynpetersart
Kaitlyn Peters
Kaitlyn Peters is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Manchester, New Hampshire. Her practice is based in inquiry, poetics, and material metaphor related to the psyche and the mysteries of consciousness. Her work spans across many mediums including installation, sculpture, drawing, and painting, and she has exhibited her work throughout New England. She received her BFA from The Institute of Art and Design at New England College in 2022 with concentrations in printmaking and sculpture. Peters was nominated by Maine College of Art and Design for the 2024 International Sculpture Center: Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
Embedment is a sculptural exploration into the visceral dialogue between psyche and materiality. Made from an altered and disguised mattress, standing on its side in a confrontational manner, Embedment explores the obscured and mysterious aspects of the psyche that operate beneath the surface of awareness.
In the space where a body would rest are a series of protrusions where pieces of the mattress were violently removed, inverted, shoved back into place, and then buried under gallons of paint; a series of gestures that mirror the disruptive ways that experiences can become deeply integrated and repressed within the self.
@kaitlynpetersart
Kaitlyn Peters
Kaitlyn Peters is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Manchester, New Hampshire. Her practice is based in inquiry, poetics, and material metaphor related to the psyche and the mysteries of consciousness. Her work spans across many mediums including installation, sculpture, drawing, and painting, and she has exhibited her work throughout New England. She received her BFA from The Institute of Art and Design at New England College in 2022 with concentrations in printmaking and sculpture. Peters was nominated by Maine College of Art and Design for the 2024 International Sculpture Center: Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.
Embedment is a sculptural exploration into the visceral dialogue between psyche and materiality. Made from an altered and disguised mattress, standing on its side in a confrontational manner, Embedment explores the obscured and mysterious aspects of the psyche that operate beneath the surface of awareness.
In the space where a body would rest are a series of protrusions where pieces of the mattress were violently removed, inverted, shoved back into place, and then buried under gallons of paint; a series of gestures that mirror the disruptive ways that experiences can become deeply integrated and repressed within the self.
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