C & G News Spotlights Artists Inspired by Cranbrook Campus in Graduate Degree Show
Olivia Guterson, Becoming Lost, 2024. Oil, acrylic, ink, sawdust, steel wire, cotton thread, wood, glass seed beads, gunmetal, brown sugar, pumice, sand, glitter, cornstarch, chalk and breath on cotton canvas. Courtesy the Artist.
Several Cranbrook Academy of Art second-year MFA candidates were featured by C & G News, along with Cranbrook Art Museum’s curators of the 2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Olivia Guterson’s large-scale painting “Becoming Lost” explores brokenness, refusal, and fugitivity; the artist dedicated the work as an offering to her ancestors.
Both Evan Mazellan (Painting 2024) and Hanna Ryynänen’s (4D Design 2024) in the exhibition are inspired by Cranbrook’s campus. Mazellan’s painting, “Wrestlers (After Carl),” is a response to the many bronze sculptures throughout campus, in this case those by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles. Ryynänen was able to research and find inspiration for “As if the World Depended on This” at Cranbrook Institute of Science’s observatory.
Mazellan’s painting received the Cranbrook Art Museum Committee’s Purchase Award, it will become a part of the museum’s permanent collection.
Exhibition view, 2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art at Cranbrook Art Museum.
Evan Mazellan, Wrestlers (After Carl), 2024. Oil on canvas.
Photo: Sarah C. Blanchette
Exhibition view, 2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art at Cranbrook Art Museum.
Hanna Ryynänen, As if the World Depended on This, 2024. Steel, copper, brass, bronze, aluminum, stone, glass, orange peel, LED light, ceramic casting mold, water, copper sulfate, plants.
Photo: PD Rearick
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