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MFA Thesis Exhibition: Tim Kinard and Melissa Rackham

Art Museum of the University of Memphis

April 19-May 10, 2008

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Tim Kinard’s most recent work is a figuratively based carnival extravaganza that attempts to relate the daily human experience to the staging and limelight of a circus. He uses family friends and past experiences to drive his ideas. Poised in action and made of Styrofoam and paper, these life-size performers realize more than aerial acrobatics and high wire stunts. These human curiosities illustrate the world as he believes it is: a circus. Melissa Rackham’s images are about place. They explore her personal and our collective search for the place where we belong. Rackham, a self-proclaimed habitual mover, has a great interest in place and is intrigued by the quest to find a place that feels like home. Her images convey her own experience within a location and offer the viewer a sense of mood through unusual compositions, unexpected juxtapositions, and innuendoes. She often utilizes an archetype of childhood in the form of her own stuffed bunny to present both a literal connection to her past and a symbolic remnant of childhood. Though her images are of place, they are also about loss, fear, regret, and the passing of time.

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  Tickets: Admission is free.

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  Dates:
  April 19-May 10, 2008

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  Hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except University holidays and between temporary exhibits.

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  Art Museum of the University of Memphis

  142 Communication and Fine Arts Building Memphis, TN 38152

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