{"id":38060,"date":"2017-10-26T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=38060"},"modified":"2017-10-26T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:38:42","slug":"u-of-c-fine-arts-grads-embody-their-work-in-final-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2017\/10\/26\/u-of-c-fine-arts-grads-embody-their-work-in-final-show\/","title":{"rendered":"U of C fine arts grads ’embody’ their work in final show"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span>from Aug. 11 to Sept. 24, the Master of Fine Arts program of the University of Calgary held a graduate exhibition called \u201cEmbodied<\/a>\u201d displaying students’ artwork and their vision for the future.<\/p>\n

T<\/span>he four artists in this year\u2019s display were Nurgul Rodriguez, Morgan Campbell, Ziya Lin and Elmira Sarreshtehdari.<\/p>\n

The four used either their bodies, gender, or time to define their insight on culture, social issues and politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want my art to express how to not be misunderstood by others, specifically human relations between communities, cultures and nationalities,” Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n

“Art itself reminds me how to make the world a better place.”<\/p>\n

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The Weight upon our Shoulders: <\/strong>Nurgul Rodriguez, a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program of the University of Calgary participated in a graduate exhibition called “Embodied” in the Nickle Galleries in Calgary on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Rodriguez created “shoulders” to represent the emotion fabricated by her immigration from Turkey to Canada. She is one of the four artists participating in this event. (Photo by Ashley Ruz-Peters\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rodriguez created an art piece called \u201cIn a new land\u2026 Be longing\u201d that portrayed her journey of immigration with her family from Turkey to California, and then to Canada.<\/p>\n

She created \u201cshoulders\u201d using clay to depict the emotion of learning a new language and adapting to a new culture.<\/p>\n

Campbell, another artist in the show, called her art \u201cOne Man Show.” She transformed herself into different gender-bending characters to cultivate her imagination with her own sense of normativity.<\/p>\n

She developed different paintings of herself in different gender-roles to illuminate this experiment.<\/p>\n

According to Campbell\u2019s art description, her artwork discovered that \u201cdismantling normative gender shatters personal identity into an array of immense possibilities, an idea that is simultaneously daunting and liberating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lin created \u201cTamed III,\u201d a series of drawings of different body parts drawn on scrolls of rice paper, demonstrating her view on activist feminist groups in China.<\/p>\n

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Restrained Conditions for Women: <\/strong>Ziya Lin, a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program of the University of Calgary participated in a graduate exhibition called “Embodied” in the Nickle Galleries in Calgary on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Lin’s art piece represented activist feminist groups in China that she created using Xuan or rice paper. (Photo by Ashley Ruz-Peters\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lin used kitchen tools and drew the hair wrapping around the subject in her drawings to illustrate the fight for equal rights in China.<\/p>\n

The final artist, Sarreshtehdari that produced a video using her body to express anxiety in contemporary times.<\/p>\n

Her piece was called \u201cChrono -\u201d and focused on the human psyche and how anxiety fits into a certain time and element.<\/p>\n

The art was displayed in the Nickle Gallery, located on the U of C campus in the Taylor Family Digital Library, where students could enter in and experience the artwork and emotion presented by these four artists.<\/p>\n

The MFA\/BFA programs hold an art exhibition every year at the time of graduation and select artists from the program to participate. Admission is free.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a community, the art department has been a great place to explore myself becoming an artist,” Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n

“Getting involved in becoming a scholar requires that you advocate your life as a grad student to complete your research and reach expectations.”<\/p>\n

The four students are now graduated and continue their work as artists and researchers.<\/p>\n

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Embodying Gender Roles: <\/strong>Morgan Campbell, a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program of the University of Calgary participated in a graduate exhibition called “Embodied” in the Nickle Galleries in Calgary on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Campbell transformed herself into different gender-bending characters in her paintings that were created to hinder gender normality. (Photo by Ashley Ruz-Peters\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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