Exhibit to feature works by UofL Hite Art Institute’s first MFA graduates

Opens April 25

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (April 17, 2017) — The Hite Art Institute at the University of Lousiville will present the 2017 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Thesis Exhibition April 25 to May 27 in the Cressman Center for Visual Arts. Held in conjunction with Hite’s 70^th anniversary, the exhibition celebrates the first class of MFA program graduates.

The show features work by Miranda Becht, Tom LeGoff and Marie-Elena Ottman. Becht’s sculptural installations explore the relationship between our real and ideal selves and the various confrontations of reconciling memory and fact.

LeGoff’s photographic cabinet cards recreate traces of a destroyed town that exists somewhere between historical recuperation and artistic fabrication. That split identity reflects the photographic medium’s capacity for both documentation and deception.

Ottman’s organic and botanical forms emulate the natural world. Her work is particularly invested in the experience of immigration, migrant labor and translation.

The opening reception is 6-8 p.m. April 28 at the Cressman Center, 100 E. Main St.