Art Studio Second-year Graduate Students

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Graduate Students
Second-year MFA Students

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Nick Block
MFA, Art Studio

BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 2005

Nick is a visual artist from San Francisco whose work investigates photography and virtual spaces in contemporary culture.

Website: https://www.nicolasblock.com

ngblock[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
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Tara Daly
MFA, Art Studio

Tara Daly is a California artist who makes sculptures, paintings and textiles in material driven processes that explore power, collapse and connection.  She has exhibited work at the Museum of Craft and Design, Contemporary Craft Center, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Richmond Arts Center, among other non-profit galleries nationally.

tkdaly[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
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Levi Keatts
MFA, Art Studio

BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University

Levi Keatts is an oil painter and visual artist from Virginia. They are interested in the conflicting privacy and visibility needs of marginalized groups. Through playing with formal painting and drawing techniques, they explore the relationship between body and earth, challenging what is thought of as natural and creating themes of queerness, belonging, and visibility.

lrkeatts[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
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Davion Mack
MFA, Art Studio

Davion Mack’s research began with the weight of forgotten bodies, fragmented memories, forms wrapped in silence, shaped by absence and displacement. However, over time, the materials began to speak of something much more vast. Stone, born in stars, reminds one that we too are cosmic debris, scattered and searching. His current work looks upward as much as inward, linking the fractured human form to constellations of time, grief, and origin. What was once about loss has become about scale, remembering we have always belonged to something far beyond ourselves. 

davmack[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
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Sean Olmstead
MFA, Art Studio

BA, Studio Art, San Francisco State University, 2022

Sean is an electronic multimedia artist from San Francisco. He explores temporal impermanence, multiplicity, degenerative reproductive processes, and the palimpsest of conscious thought via analog video, synthesis, sound manipulation, and the misuse of electronic ephemera. 

Website: https://alreadystillagain.com/

sgolmstead[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu
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Marjorie Williams
MFA, Art Studio

BA, Photography, University of Nevada, Reno, 2020

Marjorie is a photographer and visual artist from Reno, Nevada. Their work deals with how we imagine the American landscape, the fragmentary nature of memory and the distinct perspectives that emerge from queer subjectivity. 

Website: https://marjoriewilliams.art/

mgwilliams[remove-this-and-replace-with-at]ucdavis.edu

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