This April, Temple University Rome presented the exhibitions of the 2022 Masters in Fine Arts candidates. Each year, the Rome Campus hosts a select number of students in their final year of study towards their MFA graduate degree in visual arts. This year, the artists were Stephanie Manzi, Todd Stong and Zifan Wang. The show included a group exhibition of recent works by the three artists, which opened on Tuesday March 29, and ran through April 16. At the same time, individual, week-long displays of each artist were displayed in the gallery.
View the works of each artist below.
Zifan Wang: "Whisper"
In her practice, Zifan Wang always listens to those whispers coming from the inner self. All the whispers are produced by the psychological and physical movement between two countries. The physical movements make huge differences to her social networks but these huge differences are shown up by all tiny moments. So that she visualizes these tiny and detailed moments on a large scale canvas as the poems to demonstrate how small things can become great and effective. Compared to her previous works which have a very strong sense of storytelling, her current works are more focusing on how color and mark making can cooperate together and talk by themselves. The color choices are based on moods and play with layers in painting.