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Amy Traylor, Sunsets for Mike and Carmen, Generative Contributory Computational Movement, stereo sound. Running time: Endless, 2016, (MFA ‘20)
“At First Sight” Artwork by Sarah Bennett Davidson
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Luc Biscan-White is an Indigenous queer native Appalachian image-maker, forest ecologist, sociolinguist, and researcher. Sprouting from the Central Appalachia mountains of Southwest Virginia, Luc’s art practice questions the notion of individualism by reminding us of our communion with the natural world. In tandem with their interests in environmental sociology and sociolinguistics, Luc weaves together scientific methodologies, studio practice, and sociological frameworks to more holistically address environmental and social injustices, particularly in rural, queer, and Appalachian communities.
Luc is a graduate of Radford University receiving both their BFA in studio art (sculpture and analog photography) and BS in biology (forest ecology and plant conservation), with minors in Appalachian studies, French, organic chemistry, rural sociology, and women’s and gender studies. Luc is currently an MFA graduate student at the University of New Mexico in the areas of sculpture and art & ecology.
Saúl Ramírez is a third year MFA candidate for the Drawing and Painting Department at UNM.
Born in El Paso, TX, Saúl Ramírez has spent their life along the Chihuahua Desert, the Rio Grande serving as an anchor, and Juarez as their motherland. Their work weaves the desert into the place of its global narratives in history, mythology, and science which serve as critical forms of abstraction that are a base for the production of a painterly language, transforming abstractions into haptic and affective realities.
Their work is multidisciplinary, using writing, sculpture, photography, and video as modes of a painterly concern that foregrounds presence as a remedy against the ambivalence of the overwhelming present which lacks clear definition.
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