Opening receptions: Friday, June 3rd 6 to 8 PM

Ever wonder what it is exactly that young people are thinking about these days? You have an opportunity to see what at least eight of them are up to at the 2005 UC Davis Masters of Fine Arts exhibition. This glimpse into the future of art takes place at two campus locations: the Memorial Union Art Gallery and the Richard L. Nelson Gallery from Friday June 3rd through Friday June 24th, 2005. Receptions will be held at both galleries the evening of Friday the 3rd from 6 to 8pm.

At the Memorial Union Art Gallery Hedwig Brouckaert presents an installation of four drawings with related figurative sculptures that incorporate the multiple stylistic references of surrealism, classicism, and contemporary industrialism. Peter Alden Jamisen captures domestic portraits of individuals living within the same apartment complex in a series of c-prints that document everyday experience by offering a glimpse into the private spaces of home life. Mollie Oblinger exhibits an installation of three-dimensional wall- and floor-hung mixed media works that refigure the traditional vocabularies of landscape and scenic diorama. Lisa Prettol builds relief works in wood and mixed media that meld the sensibilities of domestic space and home construction into an examination of mass-produced design.

On view at the Richard L. Nelson Gallery are drawings by Alma Bryan, paintings by Lindsay Coats, sculpture by M. Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, and a mixed media installation by Jessica Wimbley. Bryan’s intense, small pen and ink drawings derive from faith and meditation; Coats uses representations of horses as a bridge to making contact with the viewer; O’Connor’s large, heavy objects confront the viewer with both the sweetness and the grotesquery of fairy tales; Wimbley creates intense environments examining the representation of African American people in the media and in culture generally.

For further information please contact Heather Mikolaj at the Memorial Union Art Gallery, 530-752-0992 or Renny Pritikin at the Richard L. Nelson Gallery, 530-754-6590.

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