Shaun Forester, MFA Thesis Exhibition
November 20 @ 8:00 am - December 9 @ 8:00 pm
Free
ACA and Athens State University’s first Master of Fine Art and Integrative Art student, Shaun Forester, is graduating!
You are invited to the opening reception of his show Friday, November 21 at 5 pm to see his distinctive work and meet the artist.
ACA Visual Arts bldg.133 2nd Ave NE, Decatur, AL 35601
The Athens State University College of Arts and Sciences will be presenting the paintings, drawings, and prints of Huntsville, AL -based interdisciplinary artist Shaun Everett Forester. On view at the Alabama Center for the Arts Main gallery, the show opens November 20th and continues through December 9th.
All events are free and open to the public.
Forester is an M.F.A. candidate in Integrative Arts from Athens State University and he holds a B.A. in Art from Athens State University. He is to be the first graduate of the Athens State University MFA Program, as well as the first individual to be awarded a terminal degree from Athens State University. He has been recognized with several awards, including the ACA Foundation Award and the Speedball Student Scholarship.
Forester’s thesis research investigates the role of Fantastic Realism as a visual framework for expressing wynorrific aesthetics, a term describing the simultaneous experience of wonder and horror. His work explores how contemporary realist methods can depict the sublime contradictions of human experience, revealing the beauty of creation intertwined with the terror of decay. Employing classical methods of drawing, painting, and printmaking, Forester reinterprets historical realism through speculative and symbolic imagery to join the attitudes of historic artists with contemporary understandings of expression.
The works in the exhibition are for sale.
For more information about the work, or to find out how to purchase, please call 256-260-4299 or email info@alabamacenterforthearts.org.
