I’m so close to loving you

Artists Included in the Exhibition

Brandon Anderson, Susannah Belbas, Elise Bonnes, Jane Borstad, Ciara Cagemoe, Madeline Chamberlain, Veronica Crichton-Hill, Pearl Davis, Genevieve Desotelle, Jonny Hall, Christian Hastad, Jessica Hill, Sarah Hubner-Burns, Natasia Lervik, Alyssa McCathie, El Meaux, Tim Neumann, Nora Peterson, Taylor Robers, Evelyn Staats, Beth Thelke, Cedar Thomas, and Cheza Willis

Description

The University of Minnesota Department of Art presents i’m so close to loving you, an online exhibition featuring twenty-three artists that have recently earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree. All art is of its time. The things we make are colored and scented and textured by what is in the air, what is rumbling up from the ground, by the light and radiation we work under. The social, emotional, and political atmosphere gets baked into our work. Whether an artist is firing a glaze, inking a plate, developing negatives, drawing a brush across a surface, transforming materials with their hands, or pushing pixels—even subtle differences in the sky and the heart leave their marks on our creations.

And what a time we are in. The global spread of COVID-19 has impacted our lives and souls in both small and gargantuan ways. Few artists wish to be identified within a narrow band of circumstances or methods. The work of this talented and dedicated group bears the mark of this time, but it is not defined nor limited by it.
 

About the Department of Art

We believe that art has the power to transform our understanding of the world. The artistic practice and research undertaken by our students and professors has a lasting impact on the individual, the community and the environment, and resonates on visceral, emotional and philosophical levels. We experiment, we take risks, we engage critically and collaboratively with one another. With our work, we help to provide crucial leadership and context to the ongoing, urgent societal conversations that are taking place at the university and beyond, about our roles and responsibilities to ourselves, to one another, and to the planet. Visit art.umn.edu to learn more.
 

Be sure to also check out here 29, an online exhibition of artists who have recently earned their Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.