MFA Show 1994

10 July–28 August 1994

MFA 1994 brings together a strong group of painters and sculptors. Darlene Kryza, the one photographer, offers fascinating glimpses of herself through the medium of large-format color still-lifes. Works in painting include the rich abstractions of Vera Anna Slawinski, Erica Moiah James’s meditations on her own body, and our resident hunter Gary Gordon’s studies of his quarries. Blanca Lopez gives us supernatural miniatures while Farida Hughes explores landscapes through the tourist’s point of view. Jacqueline Terrassa has been thinking about home, Puerto Rico, through the filter of drawings and paintings done at the Lincoln Park Conservatory. Passion is but one impulse driving the paintings and sculpture of José Aléman Sasieta. For him, the world of inner-city kids is often a horrible place that must be changed. Craig Newsom’s sculpture is wild, wacky, and simply has to be experienced. Gender is central to the work of two of our sculptors: Christopher Ritter’s serio-comical views of androgyny and Yvette Kaiser Smith’s complex objects with feminine voices. Finally, Tim Portlock’s paintings attempt to map experience through the genre of landscape. 

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