Spring 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

John Day: Light Without Memory
February 14 - February 28, 2025
Reception: Friday February 21, 6-8pm

MFA Gallery
1616 Rowan St
Louisville, KY 40203

In confronting the tension between visual language and its inability to fully retain or communicate personal history, the work considers photography not as a fixed document, but as a fragmented and evolving dialogue between presence and absence. Using photographic and digital processes, the work reflects on the shifting role of photography as a personal and collective tool for preservation. As physical images deteriorate, their transformation into artifacts of loss parallels the expansion of digital imagery, where unprecedented volume and algorithmic organization further detach images from lived experience. 

A reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday February 21 from 6-8pm. This event is free and open to the public. 

Eisey Eisenhardt: I'm Still Eating Crayons
Reception: Thursday March 6, 2025 | 6-8pm
MFA Studios Gallery | 1616 Rowan St Louisville, KY

Please join us for the second of our Spring 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibitions! 

I'm Still Eating Crayonsserves as a reflection of past events experienced in trying conditions after many years of ruminating. Not all made discoveries were victories, nor do they place my conscious in a better position than it was at the height of my past confusions. However, the acknowledgment of the past’s affects/effects now has offered extended clarity mentally, physically, socially, and emotionally through a reparative mode. This exhibition is that acknowledgment, orchestrated in the only way I can feasibly imagine it at this point in time. It has been designed to grow, be destroyed, repurposed, and re-imagined as many times as necessary to keep up with the momentum of life, as new understandings arise.