MFA Thesis – Page 2

June 6, 2023

I Died As A Mineral – Heraa Khan

UBCO MFA Exhibition held at the Lake Country Art Gallery. Through my artistic practice, I delve into the natural world and our connection to it. The unbridled desire of humans to succeed and advance has disrupted the essential tenet of coexistence between the realms of humanity and the natural world, causing an imbalance that has led to ecological catastrophes and...

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June 6, 2023

ZOORKHANEH زورخانه – Nasim Pirhadi

UBCO MFA Exhibition held at the Lake Country Art Gallery. Zoorkhaneh The work I’m doing is actively confronting and exploring the social instability and how it relates to the ways Iranian women fight for their rights. One response of this confrontation is through my recreation of a zoorkhaneh within the gallery space. A zoorkhaneh is a traditional gym that only...

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May 3, 2023

Assemblage II: MFA Group Show

Assemblage II is the second iteration held by the Visa 582/582 MFA graduate student class with instructor Tania Willard. Assemblage II takes on development from the studio of diverging artistic practices but aligns resultant artworks in the gallery in ways that position new dialogues between practices, concepts and materials. From sculptural works that are conceptually driven by the state of...

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March 2, 2023

We Are Countless – Rehan Yazdani and UBC MFA student Nasir Pirhadi

Nasim Pirhadi is a multi-medium artist and current MFA candidate at UBC Okanagan. As part of this two person exhibit, Nasim explores the current political discourse of what it means to be an Iranian woman both in a diasporic sense and as through lived experience. This important work includes a video addressing misogynist fears of traditional spaces and a painted...

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November 24, 2022

Assemblage: MFA Group Show

Assemblage was an exhibition held by the Visa 582/582 MFA graduate student class with instructor Tania Willard. Assemblage takes its starting point from the studio practices of diverging artistic practices but aligns resultant artworks in the gallery in ways that position new dialogues between practices, concepts and materials. From sculptural works that are conceptually driven by the state of...

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November 2, 2022

Nasim Pirhadi: Say Her Name #…

Nasim Pirhadi is a current MFA candidate at The University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus. SAY HER NAME Using pine needles, I built a wall to embody the restrictions the Islamic Republic imposed upon Iranian people. A wall between Women and Men A wall between Iran and the free world A wall between the dispossessed and the privileged Many...

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September 7, 2022

Natasha Harvey: Layered Landscapes

Natasha Harvey is a current MFA candidate at The University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus. Layered Landscapes: Landscape Art, Politics and Connection My artwork consists of a series of collaged landscape paintings and linocut prints, which seek to represent and communicate the effects of human interference on the environment while evoking the participatory spirit of love and beauty of nature....

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June 27, 2022

Plastic Grass: MFA Thesis Exhibition

This exhibition held at the Lake Country Art Gallery featured the thesis work of MFA Visual Arts students Michaela Bridgemohan, Natasha Harvey, Scott Moore. Scott Moore’s artwork addresses the way we relate to our environment. Moore’s hyper-real digital and sculptural renderings of everyday objects compel us to examine the world around us and our concept of ‘place.’ Natasha Harvey’s large-scale...

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November 18, 2021

Yunhe’uwe nén Ohnékanus – MFA Thesis by Amberley John

Abstract As a Haudenosaunee artist/researcher, my work and thinking are influenced by community-based, Traditional Indigenous Knowledges (TIK) and my responsibilities as a mother. My objectives are to create artwork expressing survival of land-based identity, ethics and values, (Simpson, 2014), such as seven-generation sustainability. The art produced will create a visual, physical environment and invite viewers to reflect on Water and stories shared in this thesis. I...