Spring 2021 Mfas2020 Sculpture Thesis Group 2

Revised poster for the Group 2 class of 2020 MFA thesis exhibition in Sculpture, "No Deep Kissing," on view in EIK from March 22-28.

Exhibition identity by Jinu Hong, Kyla Arsadjaja, & Orysia Zabeida, Graphic Design MFAs ‘20.

March 22 – 28, 2021

Delayed by a year and far overdue, the second half of No Deep Kissing, Yale School of Art’s Sculpture Group II graduates of 2020 Thesis show opens Monday, March 22nd @ 32 Edgewood. Featuring new works and installations from Genevieve Goffman, Lauren Lee, Anna Alvina Miller, Randi Renate, David Roy, and Alex Zak, this exhibition celebrates not only the culmination of the artists’ graduate school careers, but also the continued dedication to their practices in a year of great upheaval and duress.

Even in the quietest of times, graduating into the world can be a difficult and disorienting task—we often change in ways we don’t expect with people whose faces are only recently becoming familiar to us. But now, as the world slowly re-emerges from the carnage of a year isolated and fearful, we see the work still persists - though not as we may remember it. Let us begin the process of finding our communities in their wholeness once more and hold space together, even if the rule of no deep kissing remains.

Text by Joseph Zordan, Ph.D. Student in the History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Green Hall Gallery closed in March 2020 and the remaining Spring 2020 MFA thesis shows had to be postponed. However, efforts were taken to restage the Spring 2020 Thesis Shows that had to be cancelled due to COVID throughout the spring and summer of 2021.

~~[Original dates] Sculpture MFA Thesis Show Group Two: March 28–April 5, 2020 Reception: Saturday, March 28, 6–8pm~~

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