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FAR Bazaar Project

KENOPSIA

Description: “Kenopsia” comprises works from mid-program MFA candidates from ArtCenter’s Graduate Art program that evoke transition through a diverse array of approaches and materials.

Location: FA61

Participating Artists: Beth Abaravich, Robin Skashi, Ophelia Baileys, Karolina Beveridge, Ryan Brewer, Andrew Dall’Olmo, Jessica Dillon, Kevin Eichorst, Jenny Eisenpresser, Kiva Garber-Maikovska, Chris Hanke, Reuben Merringer, Rebecca Waldron

Beth Abaravich Hello, my name is Beth Abaravich and I am a MFA candidate at Art Center College of Design.  I received a BFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and another Bachelor’s from Otis College of Art and Design in Fashion Design. In the past I have taught Fashion Illustration at Otis and Portfolio Prep and Collection Design at FIDM. Recently I had an installation at the Raymond Gallery featuring my piece PlentyOPockets a.k.a. P.O.P., from November 5-19th, 2016. Arresting time and exaggerating importance and exaggerating time and arresting the importance of objects and people is at the heart of what I do.  I use Knitting, Textiles, Oil Paint and Found Objects and many other tools to explore these relationships.

Robin Akashi Art Center MFA Candidate 2018 Spinning a tale, telling a yarn, unravelling at the seams, threading connections, stringing together thoughts, contributing to a thread, adding to life's rich tapestry, being cut from the same cloth, tangled in the web of life, finding yourself in a bind, weaving in and out of reality, being cast into the fold, unfolding before your eyes, entering the fray, wrapped up in the fray, that’s a wrap. Graduated Vassar College with an Art History major and studied Architecture in a one-year program at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture.

Ophelia Balleys

Karolina Beveridge (b. San Diego, CA 1990) is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her mediums of choice currently are video, light, sculpture, and autobiographical-fiction. Her work is largely concerned with desirability, having crushes, power plays, latency, sex, wanting, and suppressing. She has had several solo exhibitions in the galleries  at Art Center College of Design, and was most recently in the "Refresh" group show at Gallery La Croix in Pasadena, CA. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Graduate Fine Art Department at Art Center College of Design.

Ryan Brewer has exhibited work since 2006 including exhibitions at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre (Brussels, Belgium), Invisible Exports, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Envoy Enterprises, and the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics (all NYC), among others. His work has appeared in many publications including Artforum,W Magazine, Frieze, Mousse Magazine, New York Observer, Art Fag City, Artmagazine, Fillip Magazine, and E.R.O.S Issue 4: Man(Tate Modern, London, 2014). In 2011, Brewer was awarded a residency at the Fire Island Artist Residency, the first residency program for emerging LGBT artists in the United States (Fire Island, NY). Brewer also shows collaboratively with AA Bronson, including exhibitions at Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, Korea), Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Esther Schipper (Berlin), Maureen Paley (London), Art Basel 43, Art Basel 44 (both Basel, Switzerland), among others. Brewer currently studies at ArtCenter College of Design [MFA Candidate, 2018] and previously studied at Parsons School of Design [BFA (with Honors), 2011]. 

Andrew Dall’Olmo I'm an art maker from Michigan. I have a BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. I'm interested in notions of escapism, taking the long way to a short point, missing the mark, and jouska. I am a second term student in the ArtCenter College of Design's MFA program.

Jessica Dillon (b.1986, Pennsylvania) lives and works in Los Angeles. She is currently a MFA candidate at Art Center College of Design and received her BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. Bridging painting, video art, performance, installation and more, Jessica is an enthusiastic collaborator who finds inspiration all around her. While at Otis, Jessica enjoyed hosting and curating numerous group exhibitions and happenings at her house in Santa Monica. In 2012, the Silent Night Show took over the entire first floor of her bungalow; then out the backdoor and up the steep garden hillside the house backs up on. Also while at Otis, Jessica served as design team leader for the Palau Freedom Memorial Public Art Project; an integrated learning class where students across diverse disciplines collaborated with the small island country of Palau to design and execute a public art memorial to honor Palauan veterans who have served in the U.S. military. Jessica's work has shown at several artist-run galleries and collectives across Los Angeles including Trunk Gallery in Mar Vista and One Of Us gallery in downtown LA. She continues to look for more ways to expand her practice both personally and collaboratively; and for that she is thrilled to participate in the 2017 Far Bazaar. Every day I walk. I travel and I observe the landscape. I use my body as reference; leading the line, performing and navigating a thread of consciousness. As I move, I study the land and how it changes. I feel a deep connection to the geography and history of the land and every line I draw represents this relationship. Later in the studio, I synthesize my experiences of the environment. As I work from memory I allow myself to see the work as it changes.

Kevin Eichorst (1980) is a Chicago based artist currently enrolled in the MFA Studio program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His working method is interdisciplinary with projects taking the form of photography, installation, and printmaking. Eichorst's work is a deeply personal response to his own life, exploring themes of memory, loss, identity and their psychological underpinnings. Past solo exhibitions include Life Cycle, Three Peas Art Lounge, Chicago; and past group exhibitions include 100 Canvases for A Better World, The Silver Room, Chicago; The Qualifier, Studio 914, Chicago; and Street Level, StreetFood Artistry, Chicago.

Jenny Eisenpresser is an artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. Her process often involves constructing studio set ups with color, light and transparency to find her work. She plays on visual ambiguities using both reality and effects to compose her pieces. Her procedures for defining a painting are similar to traditional methods of additive layers and deconstructed surfaces. She claims, "All of these operations are playful attempts to configure, deconstruct, analyze, revise, organize and build meaning…A mashup of styles, influences and materials, high and low, traditional and contemporary." She further defines the contemporary art climate, with so many conversations going on simultaneously, as "a perpetual moving target". Jenny has shown her work in solo shows as an MFA candidate at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and in group shows throughout California and New York. Previously she received her BFA and BA from Cornell University.

Kiva Garber-Maikovska 2018 Art Center MFA candidate, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu purple belt under Shawn Williams, Renzo Gracie Los Angeles, 2006 BA, Department of Art Honors & College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Chris Hanke (b. 1988, Los Angeles) works with photography, video, sculpture, and installation. He is a MFA candidate at Art Center College of Design for 2018, and received his BFA in Fine Art from the University of Southern California in 2013. His work investigates the materiality of organic forms, through the use of synthetic and often unfixed materials. His practice tends to float in the space between the scientific and the playful, with an emphasis on aleatoric processes. Recent group shows include; Thus Spake the Fungus at Arturo Bandini, Water in the Camera at Contact LA, and a hole or something like the sun at Scranch in Joshua Tree, CA. Past solo shows include, Between a Rock and a Soft Paste at Lindhurst Gallery in 2013, and Slightly Drifting at Station Gallery in 2012. Chris has also exhibited at Night Gallery, Public Fiction, Human Resources, and the Armory Center for the Arts.

Reuben Merringer (b. 1980, Iowa) paints in a variety of media with an interest in using external forces to generate tension between image and objecthood. His work has been shown at various locations in Pasadena, Los Angeles, and Iowa. This is his fourth term in ArtCenter’s Grad Art program, which will be spent in Berlin as part of the exchange program ArtCenter has with Weissensee. While there he will continue to explore new materials, with an eye towards incorporating his painting process with his longtime devotion to music and fiction writing.

Rebecca Waldron Art Center MFA Candidate 2018 BA from St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM in Classics and History of Math and Science. Post-modernism has been called the twilight of the real.