In Shape Shifting Dodd MFA alum Joe Camoosa uses images from his favorite sketchbook to present a celebratory take on an ever-present specter of modernity, the grid. Originally created on a scale of 2”x2”, Camoosa scales up each sketch, monumentalizing his abstract experiments in color, shape, and composition. Art historian and theorist Rosalind Krauss defined the grid as existing in realm of both the temporal and spatial. Camoosa bridges this divide by channeling the freedom and lightheartedness of a sketch and transferring this brevity onto the plane of a large-scale mural.

A Far Off Theater is a collaboration between Dodd MFA Candidate Landon McKinley and visual artist Maria Noel. This body of work investigates the process of removal and obfuscation. Through  painting and photography, these artists collaboratively fabulate a series of fragmented narratives about a world saturated in perpetual information, isolation, and dusk. Swaths of rich shadow in prints and paintings bring into focus small glimmers of recognizable images sequenced together.

Perched within the cavernous maw of the Suite Gallery is a strange mass: a conglomeration of rigidly sutured, bone-white produce boxes, emptied of cargo and purpose – their corrugated ghostly bodies, slowly leeched of color and branding by years spent under a vampiric sun. Like an oversized, albinic pearl, it hangs heavy – boldly reflecting back the gallery wall’s hungry gaze, unrelenting in its withholding all that lies within…