The low-residency MFA Program in Ceramics, Painting and Sculpture (MFA CPS) at the University of the Arts announces its thesis exhibit, featuring work by students S. Tiernan Alexander, Xiomara Babilonia, Sally Eckoff, Alejandro Mandel, Joanna Platt, Sarah Rene, H. John Thompson, Karen Joan Topping and Carly Yoast. The show runs December 5 – 21 and January 4 – 6 at the University’s Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery (333 S. Broad Street), Hamilton/Arronson Galleries and Hunt Room in Hamilton Hall (320 S. Broad Street).

Opening reception is December 5, 6 – 9 p.m. in the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and Hamilton Hall.

Artist Bio

For Karen Joan Topping, things such as toys and candy are the tools and materials for the making of art. She creates installations, sculptures and video projections engaging in a spirit of play and exploration that are inquiries into attention, emotion and judgment as much as they are investigations of aesthetic practices.  By using seductive and nostalgic objects from childhood, she examines how fantasy, memory, hope and anxiety can be explored in space and time as well as symbol and form.