2006 MFA Fine Art Thesis Exhibition

ARTISTS + ART

Lauren Anderson
Adam Blue
Matthew Hughes Boyko
Val Britton
Michael Cappabianca
Michele Carlson
Susan Chen
Alex Clausen
Alika Cooper
Keturah Cummings
Scott de Bie
Julia DeGuzman
Scotty Wm. F. Enderle
Marcella Faustini
Ana Fernandez
Allegra H. Gibson
Alexis D. Grant
Elise Irving
Nick Karvounis
Robert Larkin
Katie Lewis
Alex Lukas
David Maisel
Carol Anne McChrystal
Linda Michel-Cassidy
Nikolai Moderbacher
Carson Murdach
Susan O'Malley
Raoul Pacheco
Berangere Parizeau
Matthew Paulson
Alexandria Pembleton
Laura Plageman
Daniel Purbrick
Marie Reich
Daniel Reneau
Mark A. Rodriguez
Jeremy Chase Sanders
Zachary Scholz
Susan L. Schultz
Pascal Shirley
Leslie Shows
Estee Stevens
Tsunghan Sun
Tessa Sutton
Weston Teruya
Ryan Thayer
Skye Thorstenson
Kirsten Tradowsky
Jamie Treacy
Jamie Vasta
Amy Walkup
Michael Wallace
Nathan Watson
Erica Lee Wheelock

Ryan Thayer
IKEA Vattern variations
IKEA Vattern model
6'x10'
2004
 

Artist Statement
My work borrows from the sites of the retail industry and the structures of institutional architecture. I focus on the corporate world-view of interchangeability, exchangeability, and replaceability, as proposals and models for the future. Then I relocate these aspirations back in to the products and objects of these spaces making them perform their own logic. Each piece creates a utopia unto itself which not only denies the thing of its function but excludes us. .

Contact
email: ryan@ryanthayer.net
web: www.ryanthayer.net

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