MFA Fine Arts presents “Expanding the Panopticon,” a group exhibition featuring 12 current MFA Fine Arts students guided by artist James O. Clark, along with Amanda Uribe, founder/director of LatchKey Gallery.

Through a rich mix of material exploration in painting, sculpture and installation, “Expanding the Panopticon” invites viewers into a space that follows a path of memory and realization traversing the contradictions and dualities inherent to the human condition. The narrative unfolds with playful reminiscences of childhood, leading into the realities and emotional landscapes of the body, ecological crisis and politics. Each artist comes to term with reality by delving into a spectrum of dynamic emotions and cultural undercurrents running through today’s world.

Amidst a chaotic global backdrop, where the impending consequences of humanity loom large, these artists recognize trials and tribulations by wading between whimsical dreamscapes of play and curiosity and thoughtful reflections of a disturbed reality.

Echoes of abstraction, a sense of place, color and curiosity persist, engaging the audience in contemplation of past and future, internal and external, control and freedom. Through a rich mix of material exploration in painting, sculpture and installation, this exhibition invites viewers into a space that follows a path of memory and realization traversing the contradictions and dualities inherent to the human condition.

Exhibition

Expanding the Panopticon

LatchKey Gallery

Reception