MFA-VA Candidates

A colorful wall installation with various fabrics and shapes stitched together as an assemblage of facial parts

Karen Yung

The artist is engulfed in a large snakelike soft sculpture wrapping around her like a snake

Lynne Smith

A still life: several potted plants, fruits, and vegetables arranged on emerald and white cloths; in the background, smoke circles the air.

Samantha Slone

Google street view of a scaffolded walkway/path; in the background is a neoclassical looking building, surrounded by trees. The text "Google Earth" in the lower right corner in white, and supplementary info (metadata, perhaps) centered at the bottom in a smaller font size.

Seulki Seo

A large muslin hanging on the wall with crayon markings on it in various shades of blue and yellow

Anna Schenker

Painting of the doorway into a tattoo shop

Sarah Moon

"this was the first reflection" in cursive, centered above a snowy, wintry landscape of a cluster of trees, one of which (in the center) is on fire. The sky is overcast with clouds and the water/pond in the foreground is dark and stormy, reflecting the glare of the blaze.

Jorge Rios Morales

Geometric shapes with swaths of bright watery colors

Micah Mickles

Two panels/images tiled above and below: in the image above, a person sits on a chair, looking to the distance, in a dark/dim room. The only light that fills the space comes from the windows. In the still below, they sit on the edge of a bed, the image captured from a higher, aerial perspective.

Sharlene Lee

Megan Kenyon

Black and white charcoal artwork of folds

Samantha Kalson

4 mini bottles of various shade of brown resting on a flat stone

Sophia Hatzikos

Oil painting of a person, their back to the viewer, with no shirt on, a covering on their head, one hand up on their head, holding a staff in the other hand.

Jamie Harris

Painting of two young children with an elderly parent surrounded by flowers

Mad Green

Multi-colored wall installation made of mop fiber

Joni Gordon

Brownish yellow abstract shapes like ink blot tests

Jordan Geiger

A black geometric wall sculpture filled with fleshy shapes

Emily Elhoffer

Two caged figures with red legs of furniture in boots, connected by a chain of red and silver with a padlock in the center. Their "torsos" are patched with various colors, the figure on the left mostly in red, white, and blue; the figure on the right in red, black, and yellow.

Alex Rosborough Davis

A sculpture in red, installed in a park-like area: it is geometric, with curves that contrast with a thin amorphous sheet of metal (also red). The curves are expressive and energetic, exuberant. The sky is overcast.

Allena Marie Brazier

Three grey buckets of hanging oranges surround a sculpture of speakers and vinyl player in an installation room with grass on the ground

Alex Braden