‘the me behind the closed door’ is a mixed-media installation featuring paper sculptures, paintings, altered found objects, and a thesis in comics form exploring and developing the relationship with my deceased grandmother, beyond the barriers of time and space and the separation of death. The exhibit was completed for the 2021 MFA Thesis group show ‘hungry for after,’ hosted in the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the Regis Center for Art, April 27th - May 14th.
From Cameron P. Downey’s MPLSArt.com review:
‘Each artist’s dispatch stands discrete from their classmates, tied by what emerges subtly as their communication with the very hunger of its name. Throughout the gallery, restfulness waits behind orange curtains, archive ripples through the digital, forms lose and find their way. Apparitions, hospitable as they seem, meander an endless journey. The entirety of Hungry For After grasps across mediums the syntax of what it means to want.’
On ‘the me behind the closed door,’
’Their words traverse through memory, liminality, and belonging. Whether the ghosts, delicate and revered, have found their home or are still in search of it remains to be seen. What’s important perhaps, is the journey — one that’s ornate and ethereal.’
