New Art Exhibition, Chromophobia, Now Open at Mercer Gallery
[Garden City, KS] January 25, 2022 -- The Mercer Gallery will host Chromophobia, an art exhibition, by Kansas State University
Master of Fine Arts Candidates: Makenzie Burmeister, Bryan Raymundo, Kyra Litwin,
and Shea Kister. The exhibition runs January 24th through February 11th, with a closing
reception and demonstration on February 11th at 9:30 AM to noon. The artwork is experimental by nature, with traces of expression
and little to no color. The monochromatic work consists of dark black prints on stack
white paper, next to natural or dark ceramic sculptures is where the title Chromophobia
originated. 
The Mercer Gallery is open Monday through Wednesday, from 9 AM to 4 PM, Thursdays from 9 AM to 10 PM, and Fridays from 9 AM until 4 PM. For more information, contact Gallery Director Michael Knutson, at michael.knutson@gcccks.edu.
Makenzie Burmeister is an artist and graduate student currently attending Kansas State University. Burmeister is in her second year working towards her M.F.A. in Ceramics. Previously, she attended the University of South Dakota, where, in 2020, she earned a B.F.A. in Art Education with an emphasis in Ceramics. Currently, she is creating formal multimedia artwork exploring an interest in control, repetition, and intuition. This process-focused work showcases these interests through different material exploration and arrangements of objects that play with the give and take of space. The use of produced or found objects to manipulate an environment gives both context and content to the space that the viewer interacts with while also taking up the viewer’s physical space. This work comprises smaller units to create large-scale sculptures or space-altering installations.
Bryan Raymundo is an artist and graduate student currently attending Kansas State University. Raymundo is in his second year working towards his M.F.A. in Printmaking. Previously, he attended Wichita State University, where, in 2019, he earned a B.F.A Fine Art with an emphasis in Printmaking. Currently, his work explores personal narratives, playing between illusion and reality, the dream world and the real world. He is experimenting with how to get the texture on paper using different printmaking processes, mostly intaglio.
Kyra Litwin is an artist and graduate student currently attending Kansas State University. Litwin is in her first year working towards her M.F.A. in Printmaking. Previously she attended the University of La Crosse, where, in 2021, she earned a B.F.A. in Fine Art with an emphasis in Printmaking and a minor in Archeology. Her preferred mediums alternate between printmaking and drawing, with her current work heading in an experimental direction. The developing content of her work draws parallels to archeology as she examines the remnants of present-day human culture while considering what future generations will apprise from these items. In doing so, she will use the impressions of found objects from our contemporary material culture, such as trash, in her work and visual representation of current and historical items.
Shea Kister is an artist and graduate student currently attending Kansas State University. Kister is in her third year working towards her M.F.A. in Ceramics; she is expected to graduate in the Spring of 2022. Previously, she attended the University of South Dakota. In 2017, she earned her B.F.A. in Fine Art, emphasizing Ceramics and additional degrees in Photography, Art History, and Psychology. Currently, her work explores an interest in how trauma can affect memory and an understanding of one's relationships. Whether with themselves, other people, different places, or objects, she enlists notions of fragmentation, discontinuity, memory distortion, and dissociation in my work using contrasting scale, surface application, and materials. The impact is how the brain (and body) perceives that impact that she explores throughout her artwork. Incorporating explosions of violent spikes embedded in and breaking out of Kister's ceramic sculptures satisfies her want for abstraction and ambiguity. She is creating manifestations of how feeling indescribable emotions can be outwardly represented.
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