MassArt x SoWa

Part II of the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition brings together six artists whose practices navigate a world where boundaries—between body and environment, memory and present, belief and reality—are increasingly unstable. Across varied media, their works resist fixed meaning, instead inhabiting spaces of tension, transformation, and overlap.

Christopher Arotsky explores the porous boundary between the synthetic and the corporeal body, using unstable materials and projection to evoke the slow infiltration of microplastics into human life. Antonio Bailey turns inward, constructing images shaped by personal trauma and the pressures of masculinity, where control and vulnerability uneasily coexist. Camryn Connolly reimagines domestic space as fluid and unreliable, using painting and drawing to blur distinctions between memory and present perception.

Engaging ecological and material cycles, Suzi Grossman develops iterative processes that mirror systems of growth, decay, and interdependence, challenging hierarchical distinctions between human and nonhuman life. Robin Jamkatel examines the quiet pervasiveness of systemic violence, rendering landscapes marked not by visible events but by the psychological weight of historical and ongoing oppression. Through animation, Dylan Record considers belief as both narrative and ritual, framing storytelling as a space where meaning is continuously constructed and destabilized.

Across these practices, the body emerges as a site where environmental, social, and historical forces are internalized. Memory and inheritance unfold as cyclical and unbalanced, while familiar spaces—domestic, ecological, civic—are revealed as sites of quiet unrest. The graduates map a terrain defined by ambiguity and entanglement, inviting viewers to consider how identity and perception are shaped within systems that are always in flux.

— Felicia Scott Flint + Lisa Tung | April 2026