UIC MFA Thesis Exhibitions in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image and New Media Arts. Featuring the work of Melina Ausaikitis, Daniel Baird, Aay Preston-Myint and Brittany Ransom.

April 5-9.
Opening reception: April 8, 5-8 pm.

Aay Preston-Myint reconfigures and disrupts familiar objects and sites to depict a critically queer space: a proposition about bodies and relationships in our present and future, in which new iterations of violence and hierarchy compete with new iterations of expression and identity.

Melina Ausikaitis surrounds her audience with the interior of her head through performance, singing, and drawing. Moments of ecstatic aloneness are presented to the open air in all their shrinking and earnest uncomfortableness.

Daniel Baird creates work that is invested in the interplay between technological advancement, preservation and time.

Brittany Ransom makes work that probes the lines between human, animal, and environmental relations. Her work explores our society's dependence on emergent technologies and the conflicted relationship to nature, calling for a paradoxical co-evolution between the two.