Matter as Fallen Light
2023 Parsons Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Curated by Kaegan Sparks
Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery
Bel Andrade
Sitpipe I (rest/now/love), 2023
birch plywood, tung oil, steel, paint
25 x 13.5 inches // 63.4 x 34.3 cm
Sitpipes speaks to the inaccesability of public spaces in New York, creating a site of rest that is accessable to anyone who needs them. Please feel free to interact with the sculptures.
Hali Nelson
You will never know if this was all a show, 2023
oil on canvas
48 x 72 inches // 121.9 x 182.9 cm
Shay Salehi
Sensitive Dependence//Initial Conditons, 2023
stainless steel, 6V motor, 1400 ft cable
5 x 3 x 3 inches // 12.7 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm
Noah Zhou
Zài nǐ fāngbiàn de shíhòu (WHEN IT’S CONVENIENT FOR YOU), 2021.
acrylic on canvas with Toyota Camry door.
72 x 72 inches // 182.9 x 182.9 cm
Henrik Nordahl
01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100 (Hello world)
burned drywall paper tape, methyl cellulose, aluminum flashing, concrete foot, steel pole, bluetooth transducers generating frequencies based on IP addresss
120 x 18 x 18 inches // 304.8 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm
Fiel Guhit
primer-01 FROM_LISTENERS, 2023
interactive sound and visual installation
Dimensions variable
In collaboration with Tianyi Sun
Hali Nelson
Here is where I learned that words can live in your mouth forever and not make a sound, 2023
oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches // 152.4 x 121.9 cm
Evelina Nolin
In order to keep, 2023
pine, fence tape, white stoneware, orange underglaze, clamp, poplar dowels
78.7 x 3.9 x 15.7 inches // 200 x 10 x 40 cm
Evelina Nolin
Forest/h, 2022
sand paper, pine frame, poplar dowels
11.8 x 11.8 inches // 30 x 30 cm
Evelina Nolin
Harvest, 2023
sand paper, orange tree marking paint, pine frame, poplar dowels
7.1 x 27.6 inches // 18 x 70 cm
Molly Bliss Kiefer
Venus in the Blindspot, 2023
ceramic tile, paraffin candles, beeswax, glass beads, silicone rubber, found safety glass (financial district), found office chair (5th precinct), found end table (Inwood), Oculus Quest 2
Dimensions variable
Or, woman encircled by the flight of a bird. - Joystick to move - ꙮ to reset - Look where you want to go
Evelina Nolin
Fence Post, 2023
pine, soap, zip ties, table leg, particle board
7.9 x 59.1 x 7.9 inches // 20 x 150 x 20 cm
Aliya Al-Adwani
Intexo, Obtexo, Detexo, 2023
charcoal and pastel on vellum.
96 x 48 inches // 243.8 x 121.9 cm
Aliya Al-Adwani
Intexo, Obtexo, Subtexo, 2023
yarn and wood
84 x 36 inches // 213.36 x 91.4 cm
Fahmy Shahin
First Person Perspective, 2023
video projection, 3D animation
2:50 minutes
Fahmy Shahin
If You Could Only See The Effort I Make To Speak To You, 2023
concrete, ceramic, pIgment powders, steel, aluminum, brass
72 x 12 x 12 inches // 182.9 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Pauline Rossignol
Dislocated Conversations, 2023
used tea bags, red cotton thread, pine wood and multi-channel video projection
14:56 minutes 72 x 78 inches // 182.9 x 198.1 cm
Hali Nelson
Some places don’t have names and aren’t real (1), 2022
oil on canvas over panel
16 x 12 inches // 40.6 x 30.5 cm
Hali Nelson
Every window is a placeholder for someone’s life and you will never know if it’s true, 2023
oil on canvas
24 x 16 inches // 61 x 40.6 cm
Hali Nelson
This is what it’s like to be cocooned in sunlight and hear every ghost screaming in your head at the same time, 2023
oil on canvas
36 x 40 inches // 91.4 x 101.6 cm
Hali Nelson
Some places don’t have names and aren’t real (2), 2022
oil on canvas over panel
16 x 12 inches // 40.6 x 30.5 cm
Noah Zhou
DERAILED, 2023.
mixed media and acrylic on canvas.
72 x 72 inches // 182.9 x 182.9 cm
Shay Salehi
Road Casualties: I-80, 2023
Google maps recordings
60:00 min
Katie Chin
Shift, 2023
steel, drains, vents, labor
Site-specific
My art practice is social. While today it appears to be a metal sculpture, it’s a lot more collaborative than it looks. This is not an all-inclusive list, but I would like to specifically thank: - Damien Vera, Ben Dimock, Ting Lau, and Ben Gould for expert technical advice on metal fabrication. - Daniel Chou, Daisy Wong, and Jesse Harding who were instrumental in installation strategy and execution. - Caroline Kindelt, Clipber Tran, Ramon Mussenden, Tony Petrillo, Valeria or oscar, Shay Salehi, and Becky Song for your labor at critical moments where I needed four arms. - My physical therapists Craig Feuerman, Ari Neulander, and Matthew Procopio who made sure my two arms got through it all. - My partner Myles Lawrence Briggs for unfaltering patience, emotional support and cooking most of our meals this year. - My classmates and professors who helped conceptualize and understand what this project wanted to be, especially: Yasi Alipour, Kris Grey, Lan Thao Lam, Le’Andrea LeSeur, Rit Premnath, Catherine Telford Keogh, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Ashleigh Abbott, and many more. - All those who participated in the part-time faculty strike at The New School.
Ash Moniz
Distance Fom Zero, 2023
video installation
dimensions variable
Evelina Nolin
Borderline, 2023
pine, swivel base, table top, zip ties, chalk reel tips, string
47.2 x 78.7 x 23.6 inches //120 x 200 x 60 cm
Nat Peterson
Shower Reiteration #7 (Good Grief), 2023
sculptural drawing installation: 3/4" EMT steel conduit, 3/4" EMT unthreaded elbow pull-ins, 3/4" pipe hangers, 1/16" aircraft cable, wire rope ferrules, white stoneware handmade ceramic tiles, ceramic glaze
164 x 55 x 32 inches // 416.6 x 139.7 x 81.3 cm
Lisa Hennig-Olsen
Body of Evidence, 2023
multi media installation
120 x 120 inches // 304.8 x 304.8 cm
Body of Evidence consists of multiple video essays and sculptures, exploring our current advancements in the Anthropocene. The extended collection of video essays will be available to view during the exhibtion at lisahennigolsen.com/bodyofevidence As we are flesh, so we are transient and ephemeral. Or are we? Will I be a fossil? Will I be fuel, as we know it? What will become of my bodily remains? Of my spiritual ones? How will the Anthropocene alter my fossil to-be state and use? Do I have any agency in this? As both the cause and recipients of climate crisis, who do we look to for rescue? Improvement? Salvation? Astronauts or archaeologists?
Xianfan Zhu
The Apple II, 2023
interactive installation
Dimensions variable
Henrik Nordahl
Gjallarhorn, 2023
drywall paper tape, methyl cellulose, aluminum flashing, bluetooth speakers playing recordings from a cave
68.4 x 33.6 x 43.2 inches // 173.7 x 85.3 x 109.7 cm
Yifei Wang
Imaginary Landscapes, 2023
mixed media on paper
9 x 12 inches // 22.9 x 30.5 cm
Ashleigh Abbott
Natural laws of paradise: Hope is a thing with wings, dancing, 2023
steel, synthetic hair, salt
36 x 144 x 60 inches // 91.4 x 365.8 x 152.4 cm
Shining Zhu
Living, one knot at a time, 2023
Installation of twine sculptures, clay formations, and wood with sunprints
168 x 120 x 96 inches // 426.7 x 304.8 x 243.8 cm
Luke McCusker
Luke McCusker’s Piece for the Parsons School of Design Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts 2023 Thesis Exhibition, After Two Semesters in Studio 37
bench with set of instructions
18 x 28 x 14 inches // 45.7 x 71.1 x 35.6 cm
