2009 MFA in Fine Arts

Anna Adair
Zina Al-Shukri
Elisheva Biernoff
Ellen Black
James Bradley
Sung Hee Chang
Crow Cianciola
Pablo Cristi
Torreya Cummings
Kamil Dawson
Jennifer Di Marco
Alicia Escott
Joshua Ferris
Patrick Gillespie
Julia Goodman
Matthew Gordon
Katie Gray
Jason Hanasik
Queena Hernandez
Patrick Hillman
Justin Hurty
Amy Keefer
Dustin Kelly
Cameron Kelly
Christine Kesler
Ace Lehner
Forrest Lewinger
Liesa Lietzke
Elyse Mallouk
Anthony Marcellini
Joshua Martinez
Rebekah May
Klea McKenna
Annie McKnight
Moses Nornberg
Raphael Noz
Brandon Olsen
Piero Passacantando
Hilary Pecis
Matthew Rana
Conrad Ruiz
Maja Ruznic
Laura Sackett
Anna Simson
Patricia Soriano
Brindalyn Webster
Imin Yeh
Raphael Vincent Noz
Cortezuma Card Trick
video
2008-9
 
Artist Statement
I perform certain spiritual operations, like, for instance, singing a song to the MFA class called “We Are All Artists” while friends passed the collection plates. Sometimes spiritual operations just happen to me without my planning.  I document some of them in small paintings called ex-votos, or in stereo viewers.  I like to use balloons because they represent the connection of dualities: the spiritual and the bodily, up and down, magic and science, weight and weightless, and of course, happy and sad.  Does the helium needs the balloon as much as the balloon needs the helium?

Contact
arteymagico@sbcglobal.net

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