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Mirrored graphic of strange objects surmounted by a wooden horse head with red lines radiating outwards. Text to the right reads "Nine Ways from Sunday: 2022 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition, April 9 through July 25, 2022."

Nine Ways from Sunday: 2022 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition

This exhibition features thesis projects by the MFA in Visual Art candidates in the 2022 graduating class of the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art. MFA candidates present artworks in various media, exploring a broad range of themes, including spatial politics, desire and commodity fetishism, technology and the natural world, the Black Imaginary, and diasporic cultural identities.

The 2022 MFA in Visual Art candidates are Karina Arreola-Gutierrez, Quinn Antonio Briceño, Joseph Canizales, Noah Greene-Lowe, Erin Johnston, Martin Lammert, Sam Modder, Carlos Salazar-Lermont, and Livia Xandersmith.

The 2022 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition is organized by Leslie Markle, curator for public art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

On view

Apr 9 – Jul 25

Location

Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery, Kemper Art Museum

OPENING CELEBRATION & ARTIST TALKS
2-5p April 9

ADDITIONAL ARTIST TALKS
10a-12p April 23

Exhibition Support

Support is provided by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Exhibition Checklist

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Kemper Art Museum

Opening Reception

Livia Xandersmith

A Comedy of Agency, 2022.

Opening Reception

Martin Lammert

Untitled (Stage1), 2022.

Opening Reception

Sam Modder

Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks, 2022.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Sam Modder gives an artist talk in front of her work.

Opening Reception

Carlos Salazar-Lermont

Sanctuary, 2022.

Opening Reception

Karina Arreola-Gutierrez

El Amor de Mi Familia, 2022.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Kemper Art Museum

Opening Reception

Joseph Canizales

In foreground, Eroded Limestone, 2022. On wall, Extruded Limestone Quarry (Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO), 2022. In back, Entropic Limestone, 2021.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Erin Johnston delivers an artist talk next to her piece Untitled, from the Quadruped Series, 2022.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Quinn Briceño gives an artist talk in front of his piece Allí, 2022.

Opening Reception

Noah Greene-Lowe

St. Louis Landscape (Facing West), 2022.

Wide view of a gallery space with a wooden stage installation, a brightly colored painting, and a central half-wall covered with large-scale black and white drawings.

Long, brightly colored painting of highly rendered objects such as fabric, clouds, astronauts, hands holding up smartphones, a staircase, and headless bodies in suits floating in an abstract space. In front of the painting is installed a wooden, painted stage prop that looks like flames. People walk between the painting and the prop.

Two people watch a video of rubber gloved hands mixing chemicals. The tv is set on an unfinished, wooden stage at waist-height. A tall, rounded sculpture carved from pink foam sits next to the tv.

A person walks past a white wall with a large-scale black and white drawing of women in black dresses with pouffy hair. More disembodied hair trails in from the right side of the frame.

Person stands in front of a crowd in a gallery space and speaks. Behind them is the edge of a large-scale black and white drawing of a twisted fabric skirt.

Two silhouetted figures stand in a small, dark blue room with three tvs installed inside of wooden frames, which are shaped like arched door lintels and covered in metallic film with gold trim.

Person stands in an alcove in a gallery. Inside are hung three filmy sheets of fabric with black embroidery tracery across them. In front, on a small dias, sits a teal wooden kitchen chair set with three white pillows embroidered with flowers. Around the base of the chair are many tea candles. A video screen is affixed to the wall of the alcove but not in focus.

Wide view of gallery space with people moving through it. Visible are an installation of grey boulders on the floor and a large-scale black and white drawing of a woman in a huge skirted dress and a head turban, covering a half-wall inside the gallery.

Two people stand and investigate a 4ft tall stone obelisk that transitions from smooth and white at the base to grey and rocky at the top. Blurry in the foreground are some grey boulders, and on the wall is a topographical painting with a blue background.

Person speaks to a crowd. On the floor between them is an indistinct, lifesize white sculpture of two sheep.

Person holding a bunch of red tulips stands in front of a brightly colored painting of a hallucinatory streetscape and speaks.

People walk past an installation of a woven blanket with the image of a hazy valley landscape on it. The bottom edge of the blanket has been picked apart and piece of asphalt have been hung from strings like beads. Larger chunks of asphalt litter the floor in front of it.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Wide view of a gallery space with a wooden stage installation, a brightly colored painting, and a central half-wall covered with large-scale black and white drawings.

Kemper Art Museum

Opening Reception

Livia Xandersmith

Long, brightly colored painting of highly rendered objects such as fabric, clouds, astronauts, hands holding up smartphones, a staircase, and headless bodies in suits floating in an abstract space. In front of the painting is installed a wooden, painted stage prop that looks like flames. People walk between the painting and the prop.

A Comedy of Agency, 2022.

Opening Reception

Martin Lammert

Two people watch a video of rubber gloved hands mixing chemicals. The tv is set on an unfinished, wooden stage at waist-height. A tall, rounded sculpture carved from pink foam sits next to the tv.

Untitled (Stage1), 2022.

Opening Reception

Sam Modder

A person walks past a white wall with a large-scale black and white drawing of women in black dresses with pouffy hair. More disembodied hair trails in from the right side of the frame.

Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks, 2022.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Person stands in front of a crowd in a gallery space and speaks. Behind them is the edge of a large-scale black and white drawing of a twisted fabric skirt.

Sam Modder gives an artist talk in front of her work.

Opening Reception

Carlos Salazar-Lermont

Two silhouetted figures stand in a small, dark blue room with three tvs installed inside of wooden frames, which are shaped like arched door lintels and covered in metallic film with gold trim.

Sanctuary, 2022.

Opening Reception

Karina Arreola-Gutierrez

Person stands in an alcove in a gallery. Inside are hung three filmy sheets of fabric with black embroidery tracery across them. In front, on a small dias, sits a teal wooden kitchen chair set with three white pillows embroidered with flowers. Around the base of the chair are many tea candles. A video screen is affixed to the wall of the alcove but not in focus.

El Amor de Mi Familia, 2022.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Wide view of gallery space with people moving through it. Visible are an installation of grey boulders on the floor and a large-scale black and white drawing of a woman in a huge skirted dress and a head turban, covering a half-wall inside the gallery.

Kemper Art Museum

Opening Reception

Joseph Canizales

Two people stand and investigate a 4ft tall stone obelisk that transitions from smooth and white at the base to grey and rocky at the top. Blurry in the foreground are some grey boulders, and on the wall is a topographical painting with a blue background.

In foreground, Eroded Limestone, 2022. On wall, Extruded Limestone Quarry (Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO), 2022. In back, Entropic Limestone, 2021.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Person speaks to a crowd. On the floor between them is an indistinct, lifesize white sculpture of two sheep.

Erin Johnston delivers an artist talk next to her piece Untitled, from the Quadruped Series, 2022.

Opening Reception

MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition 2022

Person holding a bunch of red tulips stands in front of a brightly colored painting of a hallucinatory streetscape and speaks.

Quinn Briceño gives an artist talk in front of his piece Allí, 2022.

Opening Reception

Noah Greene-Lowe

People walk past an installation of a woven blanket with the image of a hazy valley landscape on it. The bottom edge of the blanket has been picked apart and piece of asphalt have been hung from strings like beads. Larger chunks of asphalt litter the floor in front of it.

St. Louis Landscape (Facing West), 2022.

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