2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition | Jacs Fishburne

On view:
Friday, April 5–Sunday, April 28, 2019

Reception:
Friday, April 5, 2019 | 6–9 p.m.

See the work of emerging artists and designers at the CCAD MFA & MDes Thesis Exhibition. For the first time, the show will include strategic and service design projects from MDes candidates. MFA candidate work spans a number of different media and genres, such as painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, illustration, and animation. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Artist Statement:

What do we create in the space pain occupies?
Consider your body and the things that surround it … the movement of messages up and down your spine swaddled in sinew and fabric. At birth, we’re swaddled in cloth, which covers our bodies in death, and we live the space between surrounded by fabric. Similarly, our nervous system is everywhere, always firing and relaying messages from the tips of our feet to the tops of our heads, keeping us in motion and connected to each other.
Neural is a community of pieces that make up a body. Each is unique, sensual, complete yet falling apart.
Together they tell the story of the body, its
scars
folds
frayed nerves.
With each cut, a new synapse emerges,
a new way to transmit
the throbbing
the burning
the infinite losses caused by living
with chronic pain.