MAR 27–APR 15, 2012
Senior Thesis Exhibition: Senior Exhibition
Senior Thesis Exhibition
Senior Show
Features the final bodies of work produced by the graduating class of the Mills College Studio Arts program.
The exhibition celebrates the artistic talent at Mills College as the senior class launches their careers and lives in many different directions.
APR 29–MAY 27, 2012
MFA Thesis Exhibition: MFA Exhibition
MFA Thesis Exhibition
MFA Show
This exhibition showcases works by students created for their graduate degrees in the Mills College MFA Studio Arts program.
This thesis exhibition demonstrates not only the high quality of work produced by Mills MFA candidates, but also their dedication to continually testing their artistic ideas and capabilities.
JUN 20–SEP 2, 2012
Sarah Oppenheimer
Sarah Oppenheimer
MF-142, Cut plywood, Room-scaled environment, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2009
The Mills College Art Museum has commissioned New York-based artist Sarah Oppenheimer to create a new site-specific installation that addresses the museum’s unique architectural space.
Oppenheimer is internationally recognized for her architectural interventions that explore how space is animated and experienced. Her installations often have the effect of bringing two distant and distinct spaces into immediate, disorienting proximity, using a strategy of framing views and heightening the viewer’s awareness of their own physical presence within a space.
The Mills College Art Museum is situated in a historic Beaux-Arts structure designed by Bay Area architect Walter Ratcliff, Jr. in 1925. A cast-concrete building, the museum’s gallery is a 6,000 square-foot, open floor plan with an extensive ceiling skylight. Oppenheimer will design and fabricate a work that utilizes the specific qualities of the museum’s scale, light, and decoration to explore the understanding of architecture as a social space and look specifically at the role of the museum as a container for both objects and viewers.
Sarah Oppenheimer is supported in part by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
