Body Doubles: UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition 1
@ Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street
Opening Friday, March 22nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, March 23rd
The first in a series of four UIC MFA Thesis Exhibitions in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, and New Media Arts.
Joshua Albers uses information technology to investigate the nature of constructed realities and rendered environments. His recent work explores the poetic potential of re-purposed consumer hardware, principally the Microsoft Kinect. He received a BFA from Missouri State University in 2004.
Daniel Bennett is a New Media artist working in performance, video, and installation. He seeks to highlight the invisible spaces between self and other through strategies of mirroring, repetition, and minor gesture. Using the body as a threshold, the structures of social interaction come to light. He received a BFA in sculpture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Through an expanded lens of photography, Lauren Edwards uses various strategies including installation, projection, and sculpture to create framing devices which question the relationships between experience, perception, and representation. She has exhibited in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, and is a recent recipient of the Provost Award for Graduate Research. Edwards will be attending the Institut für Alles Mögliche residency this summer in Berlin. She received a BS in psychology from Northeastern University in 2004.
Kera MacKenzie works at the intersection of set design, installation, video, photography, and script writing. Her work addresses issues of translation between mental and physical spaces, often employing a methodology inspired by metaphysical detective novels. Her videos have been shown at screenings and exhibitions in New York, Boston, and Berlin. MacKenzie has done artist residencies at Culturia in Berlin and Acre Projects in Wisconsin. She studied at Bennington College, the Art Institute of Boston, and Transart Institute.
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