Bard MFA class of 2025 thesis exhibition
July 12–21, 2024
The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) is proud to present Off Site: the class of 2025 thesis exhibition, which brings together the culminating work of third-year MFA candidates in the disciplines of Moving Image, Music/Sound, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, and Writing. This year, the exhibition and presentations were split between two galleries in Hudson, New York: Basilica Hudson and Time & Space Limited (TSL). The show was curated by Mary Fellios.
Off Site presents the work of Bard’s MFA class of 2025. The title references the nature of this year’s exhibition as both a logistical reality and resilient methodology in which art activates pathways between malleable pasts and potential futures. Off Site marks a new era of openness for the program as this is the first Thesis Exhibition to occur off-campus. It is staged across two venues in Hudson, New York: Time & Space Limited and Basilica Hudson.
Disruptions around the source of the authorial voice; the destabilization of boundaries separating real and artificial space; and forms of perceptual mapping are among the concerns that spark connections between the works on view. Off Site showcases nineteen artists working across a variety of mediums—from painting to sound installation—alongside two nights of performances.
Mary Fellios is a curator who received their MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard CCS. They have completed research and worked on programs with Textile Arts Center (New York City, New York), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego, California), Brooklyn Museum (New York City, New York), Performa (New York City, New York), and Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, New York).
Basilica Hudson
110 Front Street, Hudson, New York 12534
Time & Space Limited
434 Columbia Street, Hudson, New York 12534
Jasmine Amussen Writing
Michaela Bathrick Sculpture
Erin Hoffstetter Photography
Jenny Jisun Kim Painting
Kinlaw Music/Sound
Alima Lee Moving Image
Matthew Li Sculpture
Tyler Little Writing
A. Mac Sculpture
Alina Maldonado Music/Sound
Chantal Michelle Music/Sound
Cherry Nin Moving Image
lucia reissig Sculpture
Will Stovall Painting
Carolyne Loreè Teston Painting
geetha thurairajah Painting
Taryn Tomasello Sculpture
Aynsley Vandenbroucke Writing
Grace Villamil Music/Sound
Founded in 1981, Bard MFA is a nontraditional school for visual, written, and time-based arts. At Bard, the community itself is the primary resource for the student—serving as audience, teacher, and peer group in an ongoing dialogue. In interdisciplinary group critiques, seminars, school presentations, as well as discipline caucuses and one-on-one conferences, the artist-student engages with accomplished faculty members while developing their individual studio practice. The program probes a diversity of approaches and fosters imaginative responses and insights to aesthetic concerns across the disciplines of film/video, writing, painting, sculpture, photography and music/sound. Bard MFA is a low-residency program that takes place over two years and two months. Students are on campus for three consecutive eight-week summer sessions and off campus for two independent study sessions completed during the intervening winters.
