Meet the newest class of the “best kept secret” MFA Studio Art program in the country, UConn’s graduate studio art program. Working in a broad range of art making including painting/drawing, sculpture, photography/video, printmaking, and performance, the class features:
Jeanne Ciravolo
Ciravolo’s work is centered on the physicality, gesture and movement of the body and the boundless mystery of identity and the interior life. She is interested in content developing through an accretion of multiple images, in a grid, modified grid form, a text-like line or within one composition.
Melanie Klimjack
Klimjack’s work seeks to create an alternate environment/plain via staged furniture scenarios and psychological landscapes. Often devoid of figurative representation, the viewer is forced to create a narrative reflective of either the furniture arrangement or ritualistic mark making, suggesting themes of pair bonding, abnormal psychology and the significance of place.
Luke Seward
Seward is a photographer/videographer whose work aims to examine the intersection of technology, architecture, and nature through creative processes including historic, alternative, and sculptural.
River Soma
Soma’s artistic process is ritualistic and historiographical in conception but process-based and intuitive in execution across media. She explores ideas of singularity, duality and multiplicity as a reflection of individual and collective states of being.
Ting Zhou
Zhou’s inspiration behind her work often comes from her childhood memories, from food and from her daughter. As an immigrant from China, she has tried to explain some ancient Chinese thoughts of Chinese philosophy, such as Samsara in Buddhism and Yin-yang in Taoism via her photography and artist books.
