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adrian johnston
Since his earliest days, mark-making and movement in the influences of eastern and western schools of visual imagery, Adrian Johnston’s experience with athletic disciplines of gymnastics, and the musicality of dance have provided a score for explorations in interdisciplinary media. His drawings, paintings, and time based media are integrated topographical, geological, temporal poems of traverse.
Exhibitions include recent collaborative projects at the San Diego Museum of Art, CA and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do Province, Korea. His work has been collected internationally, including the SKYSEA Museum of Art / 天海美术馆, Wudang, Guiyang, Guizhou, China, and various private collections. Johnston holds an MFA from Clark University and a BFA from the University of Iowa. He currently lives and works in Greater Boston.
bridey mcglynn
Bridey McGlynn recently earned her MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Prior to that, she received her BFA from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. She is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the George Nick Prize (MassArt) and the Fitchburg Art Museum’s 87th Regional Exhibition of Art & Craft Student Prize.
Artist Statement
I work in collaboration with my body to create open abstract imagery.
Referencing the contours and marks of my form, I repeatedly layer drawings of myself, building and destroying the image to something unrecognizable. The process of creating these works provides me with invaluable time to sit with how I see myself and the possibilities that can arise from that point of view. The depiction of my body is no longer singular; multiple moments and perspectives can be present.
In working with my body, my practice unexpectedly became an investigation of the materials I was using to create my subject as much as the subject itself. The materiality of paint, charcoal, and ink created endless possibilities to build my own visual language.
The figure and the abstract combine in my exploration of self and materiality, resulting in a breadth of open imagery that challenges and excites me.
mijung yun
Born in Korea, MiJung Yun will receive her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in the summer of 2025. Previously, she earned a BA and MA in Education from Arizona State University, Tempe, and an AA in Fine Arts from Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ. She has received numerous grants and awards, including the Nichols Drawing Breath Award and the Montague International Travel Grant (both from SMFA at Tufts).
Artist Statement
Looking closely, endless piles of scribbled lines and geometric shapes have a confident fluidity of movements and gestures. Collectively these masses of marks create abstract
environments. From a distance, however, they form a simple and unified image that starts to move toward representation. I hope that this creates a juxtaposition of
feelings, such as comfort and relaxation from a distance, but can be visually disturbing and dizzying up close.
The act of adding each line on the paper is a highly sensual, pleasurable, meditative, and transcendent process for me because lines are very explicit alone but together
quite unpredictable. I want my drawings to be confusing but intriguing, creating a dizzying sense from the repetitions of numerous lines. I mean them to be ecstatic,
echoing the way I feel during the process of art making.