ON VIEW
April 22 – 29
+ May 12 – 20
EXHIBITION OPENINGS
Friday, April 21, 5 – 7 pm
+ Thursday, May 11, 5 – 7 pm
April 22 – 29
+ May 12 – 20
EXHIBITION OPENINGS
Friday, April 21, 5 – 7 pm
+ Thursday, May 11, 5 – 7 pm
@deborahsantoro_
www.deborahsantoro.com
Deborah Santoro
Deborah Santoro is a visual artist with a home base in printmaking who incorporates fiber and time-based media into immersive installations. She showed work in Human Impact: Stories of the Opioid Epidemic at the Fuller Craft Museum in 2019 and won a staff choice award in the 2022 Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft at the Fitchburg Art Museum. Deborah co-curated and participated in Pretendians: A Conversation with Steffany Ojeda and james meyer in the Zand Head Gallery in Portland, Me. in 2022. She is also the Gallery Director for UMass Lowell.
From Fleurons to Roverbots: My work uses print, fiber, and time based media to reveal connections between hidden histories and contemporary realities. I use layering to imply time travel using current ideas in physics about the nature of time and the universe. Prints and drawings become animations, projections, and installations that acknowledge histories of colonial domination and resource extraction. Although I have lived all my life in the place currently known as ‘New England,’ I am very aware that this land has other names, older names.
I incorporate hope and resilience into my work in ways that invite humanity to re-envision life with our fellow beings on this blue planet. We are learning that forests are complex, symbiotic, and possibly sentient; the ferns are not separate from the trees. The people are not separate either. Some think that saving Earth is a lost cause, that we should set our sights on Mars, but the more we learn about biology, that we contain more non-human cells than human, the less I am sure that we can live without the trees.
www.deborahsantoro.com
Deborah Santoro
Deborah Santoro is a visual artist with a home base in printmaking who incorporates fiber and time-based media into immersive installations. She showed work in Human Impact: Stories of the Opioid Epidemic at the Fuller Craft Museum in 2019 and won a staff choice award in the 2022 Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft at the Fitchburg Art Museum. Deborah co-curated and participated in Pretendians: A Conversation with Steffany Ojeda and james meyer in the Zand Head Gallery in Portland, Me. in 2022. She is also the Gallery Director for UMass Lowell.
From Fleurons to Roverbots: My work uses print, fiber, and time based media to reveal connections between hidden histories and contemporary realities. I use layering to imply time travel using current ideas in physics about the nature of time and the universe. Prints and drawings become animations, projections, and installations that acknowledge histories of colonial domination and resource extraction. Although I have lived all my life in the place currently known as ‘New England,’ I am very aware that this land has other names, older names.
I incorporate hope and resilience into my work in ways that invite humanity to re-envision life with our fellow beings on this blue planet. We are learning that forests are complex, symbiotic, and possibly sentient; the ferns are not separate from the trees. The people are not separate either. Some think that saving Earth is a lost cause, that we should set our sights on Mars, but the more we learn about biology, that we contain more non-human cells than human, the less I am sure that we can live without the trees.
The MFA Thesis Exhibitions for the Class of 2023 are interdisciplinary shows that incorporate a range of making practices unified by the overwhelming concerns these students have for their environment, their communities, their families, and their own well-being. With an emphasis on the personal, and at times the anecdotal, these 21 artists make a variety of contributions in the form of ceramics, garments, furniture, installations, paintings, photographs, poems, prints, sculptures, and videos. The nature of their work and research demonstrates the caliber and cultural relevance of our program.
2023 MFA artists (April 22 – 29)
Corinne Colpitts, Deanna Jacome, Marlena Faxon, Jordann McKenna, Allison Overpeck, Maya Parry, Phoebe Snyder, Richard Takita, Michael Tilbury, Ryan Wight
2023 MFA artists (May 12 – 20)
McKenna Bishop, Maeve Doolan, Grace Hager, Mattie Hinkley, Rebecca Laws, James Meyer, Ted Moore, Steffany Ojeda, Connor Pirruccello-McClellan, Deborah Santoro, Anthony Surratt
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Corinne Colpitts, Deanna Jacome, Marlena Faxon, Jordann McKenna, Allison Overpeck, Maya Parry, Phoebe Snyder, Richard Takita, Michael Tilbury, Ryan Wight
2023 MFA artists (May 12 – 20)
McKenna Bishop, Maeve Doolan, Grace Hager, Mattie Hinkley, Rebecca Laws, James Meyer, Ted Moore, Steffany Ojeda, Connor Pirruccello-McClellan, Deborah Santoro, Anthony Surratt
Institute of Contemporary Art
at Maine College of Art & Design
522 Congress St.Portland, ME 04101
Gallery Hours:
Wed–Sun, 11:00am–5:00pm,
Thursday, 11:00am–7:00pm