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Contact: Michelle Byrd
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 16, 2009

Calendars and Commas

Memphis, TN-Memphis College of Art presents Calendars and Commas, the MFA Thesis Exhibition of works by candidates Jennifer Barnett Hensel and Anna Kordsmeier March 19 through March 28 at MCA's on the street gallery. A closing reception is Friday, March 27 from 6-9 pm.

Jennifer Barnett Hensel who hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, creates works that are formed in a circular process of experience, remembrance, and re-presentation.  This collection, comprised of mixed media works on paper and in three-dimensional projection, is a reflection of the artist’s personal encounters, translated to an installation experience for the viewer.  The vision of the show is the artist’s effort to represent the shared lineage of human existence and our common nostalgic desire for the past places we have been. 

Anna Kordsmeier is a mixed media artist originally from Wisconsin. She explores memories of past experiences through her abstract landscape prints and paintings. These prints and paintings serve as maps to the realm of memory. Kordsmeier creates these memory maps by combining traditional fine arts materials and techniques with materials and techniques that emphasize the shifting, fragile, and multilayered aspects of memory.

Calendars and Commas is the first of three MFA Thesis Exhibitions. Deleterious, works by MFA candidates Michael Aldana and Alexander Paulus is on view April 2 through April 11, with an opening reception Friday, April 3 from 6-9pm. Breaking Ground, works by MFA candidates Danita Barrentine and Ben Utigard, is on view April 23 through May 9, with an opening reception Friday, April 24 from 6-9pm.

on the street is located at 338 South Main, on the south west corner of South Main and Vance. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday, 4 to 9 pm, and Saturday, noon to 5 pm. All events are free and open to the public. For more information call 901.272.5100.

High resolution .jpgs available on request.

 

Jennifer Barnett Hensel

Memphis College of Art provides a rigorous curriculum in an intimate, diverse community to empower generations of leading artists, designers and educators to flourish professionally and contribute valuable ideas to society. The region’s only independent art and design college, MCA is fully accredited with expert, nationally renowned faculty and grants BFA, MFA, MA in Art Education and MA in Teaching degrees with graduates excelling in various careers across the country and internationally.

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