M-F, 9am-5pm

Hope, as a tangible object, is a way of being and becoming. an un-fragile assertion of fragile possibility presents this being and becoming in works made by the MFA in Fine Arts 2020 cohort as we’ve created over the past five years, featuring Caroline Casey, Joey Enríquez, Kamille Jackson, Kevin Kwon, Rhe’a Roland-Singer, Jamille Wallick, Yingying Yang, and Lianna Zaragoza-Marsh. A displacement we didn’t choose, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic overturned the comfortable normalcy of our lives, studies, and practices. This exhibition unites the myriad possibilities latent in the almost diasporic nature of our return to Gallery 102, by which we examine each of our worlds through sculpture, installation, painting, photography, design, and performance.

an un-fragile assertion of fragile possibility provides solutions to problems of landscape, body, identity, belonging, and absence. Sometimes solitary, often vibrant, and always filled with compassion, the objects in this exhibition intertwine where we’ve all ended up as much as where we all started from. We posit that the harmony in our works’ dissonance is a testament of our intense care for each other, as we’ve grown to know that our strength lies in the fragility of our closeness. Above all, we assert that our hope for the present and future is a place where we are united and sated by our struggle in our work together.