Rinehart Class 25’ and 26’ worked all semester together for the Fall Exhibition, shaping multiple discourses to generate this exhibition, allowing it to be read in two instances, as one large collective artwork, and as individual art pieces.

In the exhibition’s first floor, the viewer is confronted with works depicting circuits connecting the inside and outside of the exhibition space; these works use the circulated material as a message, be it air or water, to encode cultural tensions, residues, and contamination of resources. The sculptures at the back of the exhibition space delve into gender issues, body traces, and their interdependence with their surrounding contexts. On the central aisle and lower level, students approach the human figure as a self-portrait, ventriloquist, alter ego, and medium to evoke childhood memories, identity formation, and present trauma. These sculptures aim to engage the spectator by exploring materials and its intervention in space.

Dolores Zinny, Director Rinehart School of Sculpture MFA.