National Wet Paint Exhibition 2012
& Make Sound 2012

A painting and sound exhibition by MFA candidates and recent MFA recipients

Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago

Curated by Sergio Gomez, MFA

January 20 to March 10, 2012
Opening Reception: January 20, 2012 • 7 - 10 pm

WELCOME

The National Wet Paint Exhibition 2012 is an outlook and an overview of top MFA painting programs in the United States. Wet Paint refers to the idea that this is a fresh group of artists. They are MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) candidates and recent MFA recipients working primarily in the medium of painting. Now on its third year, this growing and highly competitive juried exhibition will bring to Chicago some of the most talented emerging artists in the country. Wet Paint 2012 is fully funded by the Zhou B. Art Center which makes it possible for graduate students to submit works for consideration at no cost. Wet Paint 2012 takes place from January 20 to March 10 in the spacious main gallery of the Zhou B Art Center. Wet Paint is juried and curated by Sergio Gomez, MFA.

Wet Paint 2012 seeks to highlight traditional and experimental ways contemporary artists incorporate and embrace painting as their primary medium.

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2012 Wet Paint Artists

Kristin Baird, Columbus College of Art and Design
Natalie Baldeon, Washington University in St Louis
Aneesha Baldeosingh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Guy Ben-Ari, Columbia University, School of Visual Arts
Adam Bock, Northern Illinois University
Sarah Kent Butler, Clemson University
Erin Castellan, Indiana University
Ryan Crotty, Syracuse University
Corey Crum, Northern Illinois University
Camille Chedda, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Kyoungah Choi, Pratt Institute
Mary F. Coats, University of Iowa
Spencer Corbett, Indiana University
Benjamin Cowan, Indiana University
Adrian Cox, Washington University at St. Louis
Marie Danielsson-Yung, Towson University
Andrea DeJong, University of Iowa
Michel Droge, Maine College of Art
Monica Farrar, Purdue University
Linda King Ferguson, Vermont College of Fine Arts
Jared Flores, University of California at Santa Barbara
Erin Goedtel, Indiana University Bloomington
Diego Gutierrez, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Betty Hart, School of Visual Arts
Crystal Heiden, Northwestern University
LaToya M. Hobbs, Purdue University
April Zanne Johnson, Montclair State University

Jinhee Kang, Yale University
Sarah Knill, Kendall College of Art and Design
Liliya Krys, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Avigail Manneberg, University of Minnesota
Mi-Hee Nahm, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Manning, Montclair State University
Zahra Nazari, Memphis College of Art
Fran O'Neill, Brooklyn College
James Papadopoulos, Pacific Northwest College of Art
Gabriel Pionkowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
G. Scott Raffield, Parsons The New School for Design
Alyssa Reiser, Clemson University
John Ros, Cuny Brooklyn College
Clare Rosean, The University of Chicago
Brenda Suromi, Southern Illinois University
Bart Vargas, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Steven Vinson, Kendall College of Art and Design
Ben Willis, Arizona State University
Bernadette Witzack, University of Michigan
Gaby Wolodarski, Cornell University
Theodore Zanardelli, Ohio State University
Eros Zhao, School of the Art Institute of Chicago