The University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts presents the 2012 MFA thesis exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, between May 2 and May 26, 2012:

Saul Appelbaum, Rachel Ellison, and Clare Rosean
Stageless Morphologies & A Fat Girl Crying
May 2–May 5, 2012
Artist Reception: Friday, May 4, 2012, 5:30–8pm
Ellison’sToday You Make a Dramatic Statement By Doing Nothing, a series of ongoing performances, will run throughout her exhibition.

David Giordano, Anna Elise Johnson, and Cassandra Troyan 
Wildernesses
May 9–May 12, 2012
Artist Reception: Friday, May 11, 2012, 5:30–8pm 
Troyan’s feature-length video, THE SACRIFICIAL TEMPTATION OF THE VOID (AS NIGHT SLOWLY FALLS, WE MAKE LOVE), premieres Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 7pm.

Travis Saul, Shane Ward, and Eric Watts
, even
May 16–May 19, 2012
Artist Reception: Friday, May 18, 2012, 5:30–8pm

Lauren Beck, Stacee Kalmanovsky, and Nabiha Khan
Drone
May 23–May 26, 2012
Artist Reception: Friday, May 11, 2012, 5:30–8pm
Khan’s performance, Djinn, will occur everyday from 6–8pm during her exhibition. 


The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago is committed to advancing theory and practice as a unified and sustainable investigation. Located within an internationally recognized research institution, the department fosters both multi-disciplinary and focused visual studies that engage our contemporary world with meaningful questions. History, social thought, philosophy, and aesthetics in and outside the field of artistic practice are of considerable influence on thinking artists. This approach investigates the world as it is, and imagines the world as it could be.