2007 MFA Fine Art Thesis Exhibition

Natalie Aguilar
Bridget Barnhart
Lina Bokhary
Benjamin Carder
Iris Charabi-Berggren
Amanda Curreri
Anne Devine
Jennifer Durban
Frank Anthony Ebert
Patricia Esquivias
Heather Feeney
Renee Gertler
Kathryn Gritt
David Gurman
Jessalyn Haggenjos Barr
Amanda Herman
Marnia Johnston
Robin Johnston
Bessma Khalaf
Melanie C. Lacy Kusters
Sarah Marie Lewallen
Christopher Loomis
Samuel Lopes
Celia Manley
Jack Miller
Carrie Anne Minikel
Elizabeth Mooney
Nyeema Morgan
Harry Muniz
Alison Naschke-Messing
Jennifer O'Keeffe
Karen Olsen-Dunn
Katina Papson
Lee Pembleton
Ryan Pierce
Lacey Jane Roberts
Amy Rose Sampson
Erik Scollon
Marsha Shaw
Shawn Sloan
Reggie Stump
Gabrielle Teschner
Julie Ann Travis
Carly Troncale
Lindsey White
Tom Wiehl
Christine Wong Yap
Jenny Zito

Katina Papson  
Untitled
16" x 20"
Photograph
2007
 
Artist Statement
My process is collaborative. It encourages multiple voices, displacing the singularity of my voice as the artist. I arrange and orchestrate situations creating the possibility for the unexpected to occur.  Within these parameters, stories are told. Each collaboration is a vehicle for exploring communication, drawing attention at times to the gaps between the origin of an idea and its final understanding.  The stories told do not communicate “the truth”.  They remind us of the impossibility of duplicating a story in the retelling of it. My practice is prismatic. Through interaction, improvisation and filtering, I excavate the underlying breathe of a story through this iterative and collaborative process. This break or breath I call slippage, an important part of the conversations.  Occurring over space, these slippages are an echo where portions of the sound hide in caves, alleys and under carpets. Any language will do, so long as there is always the “back and forth”.

Contact
katinapapson@yahoo.com
www.katinapapson.com


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