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2014 PennMFA in Vienna

Thesis Exhibition

Student working on art project
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Sam Mapp
Gallery with several pieces in it.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Laura Bernstein
Art piece featuring rubber boots painted white and other objects.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Laura Bernstein
Art piece featuring paper mache painted white.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Laura Bernstein
Student working at computer in gallery space.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Laura Bernstein
Gallery space with several abstract sculptures spread around the space.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Scotty Menesini
Man taking a large wooden sculpture out of transport packaging.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Scotty Menesini
Sculpture featuring rectangular wooden planks holding a small wooden ball.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Theo Mullen
Gallery containing several different art pieces of different styles.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Scotty Menesini
Gallery containing several painting and one small sculpture on the floor.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Evan Nabrit
Student working on art piece smiling at camera.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Evan Nabrit
Gallery with several different images on the walls.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Gordon Stillman
Pages showing blue handwriting and also blue handwritten musical notation.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Paz Ortuzar
Gallery with a bench and an image on the wall.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Paz Ortuzar
Gallery with several different visual art pieces on the walls.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Sam Mapp
Darkened gallery with a projection on one wall.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Josh Zerangue
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Student working on art project
Gallery with several pieces in it.
Art piece featuring rubber boots painted white and other objects.
Art piece featuring paper mache painted white.
Student working at computer in gallery space.
Gallery space with several abstract sculptures spread around the space.
Man taking a large wooden sculpture out of transport packaging.
Sculpture featuring rectangular wooden planks holding a small wooden ball.
Gallery containing several different art pieces of different styles.
Gallery containing several painting and one small sculpture on the floor.
Student working on art piece smiling at camera.
Gallery with several different images on the walls.
Pages showing blue handwriting and also blue handwritten musical notation.
Gallery with a bench and an image on the wall.
Gallery with several different visual art pieces on the walls.
Darkened gallery with a projection on one wall.
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Sam Mapp
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Laura Bernstein
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Laura Bernstein
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Laura Bernstein
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Laura Bernstein
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Scotty Menesini
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Scotty Menesini
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Theo Mullen
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Scotty Menesini
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Evan Nabrit
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Evan Nabrit
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Gordon Stillman
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Paz Ortuzar
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Paz Ortuzar
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Sam Mapp
2014 PennMFA Thesis Show in Vienna, Josh Zerangue

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The Penn MFA program presents the 2014 thesis exhibition in Vienna. The exhibition is the culmination of a six-month exchange between the graduate students and curator Roland Schoeny. During their residency in Vienna, the students will install selected works, visit artists’ studios, and complete their engagement in this highly experimental exhibition project.

The thesis exhibition project acknowledges that emerging artists work from a globalized state of culture and respond to a new perception of site specificity. The exhibition presents work impacted by a collective discussion on the premise that travel, cultural exchange and the examination of cultural relativism are all markers of a profound evolution in our vision of the world.

Artists: Marie Alarcon (b. 1978, Rhinebeck, New York), Laura Bernstein (b. 1987, New York City), Claire Bidwell (b. 1988, Los Angeles), Anthony Bowers (b. 1984, South Bend, Indiana), Sam Mapp (b. 1985, Chicago), Scotty Menesini (b. 1975, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Mohammadreza Mirzaei (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran), Theo Mullen (b. 1979, Denver, Colorado), Evan Nabrit (b. 1982, Columbus, Ohio), Daniel O’Neill (b. 1979, Providence, Rhode Island), Paz Ortúzar (b. 1985, Santiago, Chile), Gordon Stillman (b. 1984, Poughkeepsie, New York), Joshua Zerangue (b. 1988, Lafayette, Louisiana)

Curator: Roland Schoeny holds a teaching position at Digital Arts Department of University of Applied Art Vienna, structured a public art programme as a permanent cultural initiative of the city of Vienna 2004–07, realized exhibitions in cooperation with ICA in SOKOL Moscow (2014), at OK Center for Contemporary Art Linz (2002–04) and Künstlerhaus Vienna (2000).