MFA Thesis Defense: Jan Dickey

April 7, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Building, The Art Gallery, UHM

MFA candidates from the Department of Art + Art History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), concurrently present new and engaging works that demonstrate each artist’s caliber of ideas, skills, awareness of the global context within which art is created and circulated, and critically engaged artistic practice. The artists, the titles of their exhibitions, and their areas of specialization are:

Kelly Ciurej, "Artificial Sweetener" (photography)

Hannah Day, "The Grove" (printmaking)

Jan Dickey, "cover the earth" (painting)

MFA THESIS DEFENSES at The Art Gallery:

Hannah Day, Friday, March 17, 2017, 1:00 p.m.

Kelly Ciurej, Friday, March 24, 2017, 1:00 p.m.

Jan Dickey, Friday, April 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.

EXHIBITION SUMMARY of "cover the earth," and installation of paintings by Jan Dickey:

The exhibition "cover the earth" focuses on two forms of painting: covering wall panels and painting on canvas. This installation of panels and canvases can be considered in sections or as one single painting. In either case, they are fragments of the great Pain"thing" that covers the earth.

ARTIST STATEMENT by Jan Dickey:

Paint never forms an everlasting impregnable lamination. People have gone to great lengths to design paints that will permanently bind earthly things into artificial spaces and aesthetic objects. Yet painted surfaces still eventually crack, flake, and discolor. The earth gets back in.

To better explore paint delamination and discoloration, I use pre-industrial painting materials like milk, eggs, animal glue, roots, and dirt. These materials take me deeper into the history of painting and closer to an understanding of paints as earthly substances.

The exhibition cover the earth emerges out of a love for watching entropy tug at the framed-off things people presume to be stable spaces and objects. As a painting project occurring in a gallery space, "cover the earth" specifically investigates the frame—the artificial edges—of personal-sized canvases and standard wall panels. With this exhibition, I have tried to make a place for those categories to erode into one another, to fade into whiteness, and slowly crack apart.


Ticket Information
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 - 4:00; Sunday 12:00 - 4:00. Closed Saturdays. Mar. 27, Kuhio Day. Spring break Mar. 27–31, by appointment. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated. Parking fees may apply.

Event Sponsor
Art + Art History, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Sharon Tasaka, (808) 956-8364, gallery@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/art/exhibitions+events/exhibitions/?p=2769

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