In “Built Forged Faked,” UNC’s first-year MFA students investigate unraveling narratives of identity, race, gender, geography, ritual and constructed spaces in a new exhibition.
Through Feb. 7, the John and June Alcott Gallery in the Hanes Art Center will be inhabited with string landscapes, shimmering blankets, old barns, altered and investigated bodies, natural environments, haunting lullabies, ghosts of the Great Plains and not-so-functional objects.
Though distinctly different in style and process, each of the graduate student artists forges a new narrative dissolving barriers, bringing into dialogue issues of place and belonging.
- Lauren Salazar transforms a section of the gallery space with her three-dimensional drawings of string.
- Michael Iauch’s videos explore his relationship with his environment.
- William Thomas examines a personal relationship with race through painting.
- Damian Stamer also uses paint to capture sites of rural childhood exploration.
- Stephen Taylor looks at the human physical and metaphysical relationship to nature through the juxtaposition of geology and transcendental philosophy.
- Ali Halperin investigates digital dissemination and consumption as it relates to contemporary sociological issues of gender and performance.
- Nicole Bauguss constructs objects from weathered parts of historical structures to address issues of accessibility and social responsibility in art making.
- Julia Gootzeit interprets nature, landscape and human intervention in her two-dimensional work.
- George Jenne uses video to capture the illicit pleasures of adolescent quests and ruses.
Admission is free. Gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. More information online.
