exhibition brochure (PDF) - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

The 43rd Annual
University of California,
Berkeley Master of Fine Arts
Graduate Exhibition
Each year the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
Archive joins forces with the Department of Art Practice to present the annual
Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. For this, its 43rd iteration, we have
taken this collaborative ethos a step further: we invited a Ph.D. candidate in the
History of Art Department, Yasmine Chtchourova-Van Pee, to write texts that place
each graduating artist’s work in the broader contexts of art and cultural history.
Walking into the exhibition, visitors may be struck by the diversity of materials
and concepts on display. However, this is not surprising given the strong alliances
between Art Practice and other UC Berkeley departments. As a result of
interdisciplinary crossover, installations tend to be less object-based and more
totalizing environments; some seemingly emerge from the residue of the studio
floor, while others reconsider how to use the pedestals and furniture of traditional
gallery display.
I encourage you to delve into the exhibition with this brochure in hand. The latter
can never fully reveal the former, but it is our hope that another, more interstitial
experience seeps in from between these lines.
Dena Beard assistant curator