spring 2020
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Candidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.
Unfortunately due to COVID-19, exhibitions were very limited viewing in-person. To accommodate, we put together an Online Catalog below for you to view from the comfort of your own space.
In addition, there was also a group exhibition that took place in the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery in the Fall of 2020.
Ceramic Art
My pots are an investigation of items I find curious, feel sentimental towards, or objects I find humor in. This investigation could come from the object’s surface, form, or most often from intriguing proportion or...
View Christopher Alveshere's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
My sculptural practice embodies personal psychological and physical experiences, bridging the connections between the interior and exterior body, public and private space, and vulnerability. The essences of events or moments,...
View Brittany Dias's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
A girl on her knees is puking in an alley; her friend holds her hair. A disk jockey is blasting sick beats unaware of the chaos that ensues on the dance floor. A lone soul basked in solitude by light from a motel pool. A group...
View Lauren Havel's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
Erin Hoffman is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in glass. Ideas of language and technology in our continually developing digital culture are explored in her work. She is interested in the complexity surrounding...
View Erin Hoffman's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
I was born into a nomadic military lifestyle. This means that in my household there was constantly a shifting dynamic of power structures and domestic roles as well as place and culture. This led to feelings of isolation and...
View Teisha Holloway's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
Sam Horowitz (b. 1988, Vermont) is a sculptor, educator, and pseudo-scientist working in Western New York. Horowitz holds degrees from Alfred University (MFA, 2020) and Bard College (BA, 2010), and has exhibited in solo and...
View Sam Horowitz's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
If the distance between China and North America is 7723 km, then what is the distance between the previous me and the current me? If there are 12 hours between home and here, what time is it now? When a new life meets an old...
View Jing Huang's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Balance is an essential concept in my life. Transitioning from Japan to the United States in my mid-teens seeded my curiosity in art as a new method for exploring, expressing, and communicating. Since then, I explored several...
View Hiromi Kanada's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
I am using installation in painting to develop narratives and abstract storylines about the tangibility and or misinterpretation of presence. Speaking to the temporality of people and place, I am highlighting the overlooked to...
View Taylor Keister's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
I speak Korean, English, and Clay. My studio practice is a form of translation. Working with clay is a vehicle for memory, honesty, reflection. I translate the invisible and the amorphous into something visible and solid. A...
View Ara Koh's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
My thesis work investigates the borderlands between material space(time) and electronic space(time). What spaces — real or virtual — are we in, and how do ways of image-making inform our concepts of them? My...
View Paloma Kop's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
My art practice is a marriage between my interest in the materiality and possibilities of painting and the evolving relationships humans have with the natural world. My goal is to question the long history of depicting nature...
View Haley Nannig's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
My artist practice explores liminal space and documents psycho-ecologies experienced while interacting with non-human and human energies. Invocation and response to other actants offers a shared space which acknowledges full...
View Leslie Rollins's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
There is a severe lack of love in most of our lives; a quiet tragedy that is the root cause of many societal issues. Love, or a lack thereof, is a difficult topic to discuss because the word itself has been so misused, watered...
View Jamie Rose's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
Edward Salas is NYC based artist exploring the intersections of constructed culture and authenticity. His work references religious iconography and Latin American folklore as a method to create hybrid idols. Throughout his...
View Edward Salas's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
The three dimensional form of my sculptures are subverted by flamboyant surface applications. Often using reinterpreted patterns, I wonder how close one must be to the pattern before my mark becomes legible and whether the...
View Joshua Schutz's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
My work explores the tenuous mind-body connection through the use of bodily and technological imagery. I am interested in exploring our sense of embodied self and internal psychological processes/experiences regarding self-...
View Denise Wakeman's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
I'm a Printmaker, Video Artist, and Graphic Designer. In the past few years, I explored the relationship between nature through living things, human behavior, and technology. Expressions of the natural world, which are based on...
View Gongzhuo Wang's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
My work is concerned with structures, the sacred, the senses, and the sublime. I utilize architectural foundation as an entry point to invisible structures, including social constructs, personal identity, notions of...
View Kirstin Willders's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
The pot as an icon/sign that holds the history it carries, the meaning it contains and the concept It potentially delivers – the influence of the pot is significant in my practice. I use symbolic form to unfold and...
View ChengOu Yu's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
Cityscape is the new landscape, which always fascinates me a lot since these two years. Because I realize how it impacts on me, whether the impact is potentially or obviously, it has a strong power to let people perceive its...
View Qinxuan Zhang's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
Drawing on Mediterranean folklore, customs, and mythology along with Abrahamic stories and high fantasy imagery, my work aims to address issues of identity and being “other” within predominantly white spaces...
View Francesco Gattuso's Exhibit