Exhibition
Location
Experimental Gallery
Tjaden Hall
M–F, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Contact
Department of Art
(607) 255-6730
Abstract
Imagined Into Being brings together the work of Rachel Shepherd, Pilar Gutierrez, Kaitlin Ganshaw, and Kate James (all B.F.A. ’25) to explore how internalized representations of the visual world materialize into personal and collective realities through memory, perception, and representation.
Drawing on the idea that imaginaries are not merely frameworks of thought but active forces that shape material and social worlds, the works in this exhibition interrogate how memories are constructed, perceptions are formed, and cultural narratives are challenged and reimagined.
Biographies
Rachel Shepherd
Shepherd’s work explores how her mind interprets music and sound with synesthesia. She also plays with tension in both the content of her painting and through different iterations of similar musical themes.
Pilar Gutierrez
Drawing from Catalan iconography, Gutierrez’s work centers on perceived reality by weaving personal narratives with historical critique, blending humor, irony, and grotesque imagery to reimagine icons and symbols.
Kaitlin Ganshaw
Ganshaw investigates the vanishing of memory, time, and reality within a digital world where disappearance is as constant as creation. The works invite viewers to confront their own entanglement in a technological landscape where presence is fleeting and erasure is inevitable.
Kate James
James draws inspiration from Southern Gothic literature and Magical Realism to design immersive environments that function as heterotopias. Her work examines natural displacement and the shifting landscape of Orlando, Florida through observational documentary photography reconstructed as oil paintings.
