New opening date! Friday Nov. 11
Eleven graduate students from the University of Iowa collaborated in photographing scenes around their homes and the city to investigate how everyday routines shape their work. Using slide film to document these spaces, they create a sequenced performance for viewers to contemplate, the projector carousel's low click setting a tempo to corral viewers through the process.
On view daily (except Wednesdays)
6-8pm
at 538 S Gilbert
reception: Fri Nov. 11, 6-9pm
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kyle Agnew
Instagram: @kja_photo
Kyle’s practice is a colorful, sentimental, cluttered closet where dreams can be written into reality through our imaginations. Kyle often works from a large archive of collective familial objects passed down from their grandmother to his mother, and now to him. They ponder this collection and its authenticity to all aspects of his identity, as well as using it as source material to create new queer fairytales and express a more multifaceted idea of queer love. Through exploration of the motifs and symbols these kitschy objects hold Kyle implores their audience to meditate on ideas of gender signaling, heteronormativity, and queer love.
Sulu Aslan
Sulu is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in 3D Design at the University of Iowa.
Braden Dexter
Instagram: @bradendexter
Braden is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design with a secondary focus in photography. His work incorporates design, illustration, photography, video, animation, and sculpture.
Annie Hodgkins
Instagram: @hodgkinsphoto
Website: https://annie-hodgkins.format.com/
Annie Hodgkins is a multimedia artist who is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa. Her work explores themes of survival, lifecycles and the various facets of women’s work, such as birth and domestic labor. She works primarily with photography, sculpture and writing, and her interests have led to her ongoing collaborations with her own body, archives, perfumery, alternative photographic processes, and the domestic space.
Patrick Kepler
Instagram: @patrickkeplerart
Patrick Kepler is an Iowa City based graphic designer pursuing an MFA from the University of Iowa. His work investigates the impacts of trauma and the shadow it casts upon memory, experience, place, and identity.
Katie Kiesewetter
Instagram: @radkatdesign
Website: www.katiekiesewetter.com
Katie is pursuing an MFA in Graphic Design as well as graduate certificates at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and department of Gender, Women’s, & Sexuality Studies. Katie’s work explores many themes that often overlap: feminism, labor, hospitality, punk rock, Riot Grrrl, memory, relationships, identity, and being. Her studio practice incorporates graphic design, writing, letterpress, zines, books, photography, video, installation, and physical expression.
Jiayi Liang
Instagram: @jiayiliang.ioi
Website: www.jiayiliangart.com
Though currently immersed in the foreign country of the United States, Jiayi was inspired by the experiences and influence of her childhood cultural environment while growing up in China. Her work in photography, installation, video, and performance art, uses the body as the main subject in exploring traumatic memories, self-identity, mainstream culture, and limitations of language. Utilizing the body throughout different works as canvas, medium, and subject, She explores how these theories can manifest as a tool of expression within the practice of contemporary art in society.
Laura Farahzad Mayer
Website: https://laurafarahzad.com/
Laura Farahzad Mayer was born and raised in Wisconsin where a love of letters drew her to pursue graphic design. She earned her BFA at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point before working as a graphic artist for Whole Foods Market. Her design work leans heavily into the hand drawn often as an illustrator and hand letterer.
She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Iowa where her work focuses on generational storytelling. Her work navigates ideas of memory, grief, culture and unreliable narration through a variety of mediums. She is especially fond of bookmaking, readymade objects, printmaking and is still drawing letters too.
Barry Phipps
Website: barryphipps.com
Barry Phipps is an Iowa City-based artist and musician. He currently runs The Barry Phipps Shop, an alternative gallery and performance space, and is pursuing an MFA in photography from the University of Iowa.
Charlie Pott
Instagram: @charlie.pott
Website: charliepott.com
Charlie Pott is a photographer based out of Kansas City, Missouri. He received his BFA in photography from the University of Kansas and is currently a first year graduate student pursuing an MFA at the University of Iowa.
His interest in photography stems from its latent narrative elements. By way of found imagery, collage, and family archives, Charlie’s images explore photography’s unnervingly sublime relationship with memory, documentation, and impermanence, acting as both a cathartic reckoning and opportunity for serendipitous chance.
Liv Stark
Instagram: @livstarkdesign
Website: https://www.livstark.com
Liv Stark is a graphic designer and artist currently pursuing her MFA in Graphic Design at the University of Iowa. Her work explores relationships within nature, particularly between flora and fauna, and how the two are interconnected through life and death. Working primarily with alternative photographic processes and in collaboration with natural materials, these themes emerge through time-sensitive processes as a way to mimic the fragility and impermanence of life in the natural world.