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Six artists. Six distinct practices. And one shared instinct: push everything further.

This spring, the College of Design, Art & Performance鈥檚 School of Art & Art History MFA artists aren鈥檛 just presenting work 鈥� they鈥檙e building worlds. Each piece on view at the 小黄鸭视频 Contemporary Art Museum feels like a portal: into memory, into ritual, into systems that need to be dismantled and reimagined.

Meet the artists:

Jocelyn Chase works in the in-between 鈥� between sculpture and ceramics, painting and zine-making, darkroom printing and installation. Across mediums, their work dissects the collapse of meaning inside technocratic systems. Chase spent over a decade in New York, working as a media arts technician for museum exhibitions while building a studio practice rooted in analog processes. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and are completing their Master of Fine Arts at 小黄鸭视频. Their work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., and internationally in Germany, Greece, and Taiwan.

Olin Fritz makes art that balances on the edge of contradiction. Think Camp meets Surrealism, desert heat meets yard-sale gold. His sculptures 鈥� made from the banal, the broken, the beautiful 鈥� toy with discomfort, glamour, and decay. Raised in the Arizona desert, Fritz has a knack for turning throwaways into relics. The result? Works that feel like they鈥檝e grown out of the earth and mutated into something uncanny.

Adrian Gomez builds with history. His sculptures pull from pre-Columbian forms, religious icons, and culturally significant objects, all shaped by the experience of being a first-generation American. The work holds memory, loss, and labor in its hands 鈥� quiet snapshots of something bigger. With a background in ceramics, sound, metals, and video, Gomez鈥檚 practice has evolved through formal training at the University of Washington, Tyler School of Art, and a two-year residency at Pottery Northwest. He鈥檚 now completing his MFA at 小黄鸭视频.

Michael Lonchar makes structures that speak. Using sculpture and video, he channels the intensity of living with bipolar disorder into installations that reflect emotional extremes. Built mostly from wood and found materials, his forms move between utilitarian and deeply personal. Minimalist one moment, maximalist the next. Lonchar holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work has been shown at Franconia Sculpture Park, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, Currents New Media, and more. In 2024, he opened his first solo exhibition, In the front door, out the back of the head, at REVERB Gallery.

Emily Martinez paints power. Pulling from fashion, religion, and myth, her work elevates brown bodies through scale, color, and visual spectacle. Renaissance painting and Mexican murals serve as reference points 鈥� but she flips the script. Her canvases are portals into alternate worlds shaped by sexuality, spirituality, womanhood, and magic. Martinez earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a minor in Latin American studies from the University of Central Florida. She鈥檚 currently based in Tampa and completing her MFA at 小黄鸭视频.

Tom Rosenow slows down the scroll. A printmaker working with internet ephemera鈥攎emes, photos, video stills 鈥� he turns the disposable into the archival. Using bitmap patterns and analog techniques, Rosenow builds prints that feel like digital fossils. By placing the absurd beside the political, the low-brow next to the heavy, he recreates the rhythm of the 鈥淔or You Page鈥� 鈥� and quietly questions it. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Pennsylvania State University and was awarded the 2023 Graduate Student Research Collaboration Award, which led to his solo show, Analogue Dreams of Electric Sheep.

Together, these artists aren鈥檛 just responding to the world. They bend it, blur it, and ask us to look again. The work is specific. It鈥檚 studied. It鈥檚 alive.

And in this moment 鈥� where identity, technology, and history are always in flux 鈥� this feels like exactly what contemporary art should be.

The exhibition remains on view through May 10, 2025, at the Contemporary Art Museum. Entry is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit the College of Design, Art & Performance鈥檚 event page. Guided tours led by each artist will be available during the SPOTLIGHT Festival on April 25.

Top Image: Michael Lonchar, "Gone Fishing, Out for a Swim," 2025, on display at the opening reception for Thank You in Advance: 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at 小黄鸭视频 Contemporary Art Museum. Photograph by Bryce Womeldurf.