Mills College Art Museum

The Mills College Art Museum announces Antithesis, the 2008 Senior Thesis Exhibition, on-view from April 2-20, 2008. The artists featured in this exhibition are undergraduate students presenting their final thesis projects, and have studied with Mills College art faculty: Jesus Aguilar, Freddy Chandra, James Fei, Samara Halperin, Hung Liu, Bernie Lubell, Robin McDonnell, Anna Murch, Ron Nagle, Sean Olson, Moira Roth, Lisa Solomon, Laura Splan, Michael Temperio, and Catherine Wagner.

Krystle Ahmadyar works in intermedia performance to expose the complexities and performative aspects of identity. Her current persona is a dandy named Cage Norman. Through performance and works of art, Cage Norman invites the viewer to question their assumptions of the Western gentleman and ideas of race and gender.

Aurora Arding works with audio and electronics to supply a visceral harmony to visual representations of the human body. She uses audio feeds and electronics to create interactive sculpture.

Molly Bower creates sculptural works with recognizable materials and illustration such as gestures. Her work represents the difficulties of communication and the fragility of comprehension through the use of bird-like paper and wire forms.

Kristin Doner takes abstract photographs of decaying structures, plants and rocks, then stitches the prints together, creating fantastical structures and amorphous blobs.

Aviana Lynn creates sculptures that are abstract investigations of commonplace materials, such as gauze or plastic wrap. She uses layering in order to create unexpected texture and varying levels of transparency.

Victoria Jarvis uses photography to look at everyday objects such as mattresses and dishes in their post-used state and investigates whether their final condition is one of mistreatment or one of a quite necessary over-use.

Melanie Lombard makes large scale figurative paintings using big brush strokes and bold colors, enhancing and abstracting the physical and emotional impact of her subject matter.

Rosanna Scimeca uses rusty salvaged metals and animal parts (both real and fake) such as rooster feet and a swine heart to create a two and three-dimensional installation that explores ideas of human conditioning and survival. Her works invite the viewer to re-examine familiar associations by taking them out of their natural context and scale.

Kimi Taira makes paper and vellum cutouts of abstracted calligraphic forms to compose through installation. She is interested in the gap between thought and written communication, the "appearance" of meaning, and the process of deciphering thought.