[Art-mfastudio] MFA Thesis Show Opening April 11!

[Celeste Ivory]

Dear Department of Art,



On behalf of the MFA Program, we wholeheartedly encourage everyone to attend Origins & Afterlives, the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition. The work on display in MoFA is the distillation of 3 years of experimentation, risk taking, technical prowess, and merging visual language with concept. As instructors of the 3rd Year Exhibition Seminar, we have had the pleasure of seeing these emerging artists make decisions on their finishing stitches, brushstrokes, firings, braids, bindings, glitches, and assemblages.



Come cheer these artists on as they celebrate the end this phase and move on to the beginning of what is next!

We look forward to seeing you at the opening!



Jiha and Marty



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Also on Thursday April 17

  *   5-6PM Meet and Greet with the Artists in MoFA
  *   6-9PM  Gradating MFA Artist Talks FAB 249



Origins & Afterlives explores themes of memory, bodies, environments, and identity- examining how stories originate and how they are collected, fragmented, or reimagined in their afterlives. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and digital media, artists transform, deconstruct, and reconstruct- thread, pigment, pixels, organic matter- revealing cycles of preservation, entropy, and adaptation. Memory becomes subject and process through the collection of the ephemeral, and the ways personal and collective histories are altered and retold. Human and non-human bodies become vessels for resilience and fragility, a site of trauma, care, and transformation. Interspecies and intersystem relationships intertwine and shift, blending natural and digital to question hierarchies, networks, and speculative futures. As fragments are stitched, layered, and repurposed, Origins and Afterlives proposes an ongoing negotiation between presence and absence, permanence and decay- inviting viewers to reconsider what is kept, lost, or reborn.





Marty Fielding (he, him)



Assistant Professor

Florida State University

Department of Art

mfielding at fsu.edu<mailto:mfielding at fsu.edu>



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