Tuesday, May 22, 2007

fer•ma•ta

The 37th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition opened Friday at the Berkeley Art Museum gallery.

Though I admit to mostly talking and drinking wine at the reception and so have minimal to say at this point about the art itself, I intend to return to BAM to check out more seriously the work of Berkeley’s most recent crop of artists graduating from Art Practice.

One artist completing the MFA program this spring, Ali Dadgar, was previously featured on the cover of the Promise of Berkeley Winter 2007 issue (PDF available). For his MFA exhibit he has reconfigured a computer printer to print with silkscreen inks on found and generated materials exploring “decorative censorship” in multiple cultural contexts.