Alexandra and the Abyss: BFA Exhibition

So, the time has flown by and I've been doing a horrible job of keeping the blog up to date. It's already May and my BFA graduation exhibition has basically come and gone in a bittersweet flurry of stress, excitement, disbelief and joy. The show went up on April 14th and comes down this Saturday, May 7th. There were six exhibiting students this year, and all of our work in the show really came together nicely.
I made two huge works for the show. Death Mask Map is a map of my family tree made of "death masks" taken from a mold of my own face and cast in the dirt of each ancestor's grave. Self Portrait in Grave Dirt is the full body cast of myself in layers of the grave dirt (I showed some in-progress process pics a couple of posts ago). I must say that I'm overjoyed at the end result of all my undergraduate work. These two pieces ended up being a sort-of installation, complementing each other better than I'd expected. Now, I'll post some pictures that the lovely Paul Sholly took really quickly during the opening, but more elaborate ones are soon to follow.