Exhibition features work of UW-River Falls BFA candidates April 13-May 1

Senior BFA candidates at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls will showcase their Bachelor of Fine Arts exhibitions The free exhibition will feature ceramics, paintings and new media. An exhibition reception will be held April 17 from 4 to 7 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday noon-8 p.m. and Sundays 2-4 p.m. The gallery is closed on Saturdays. 

Delaney Erb of Berlin is a BFA candidate focusing in ceramics. Her displayed work stems off the different ideas and things that float around in her head daily. They vary from her childhood imagination that never fully went away to what random things she has heard or said, and more.

Alyssa Harmon of Kansas City, Mo., is a BFA candidate in painting. During the exhibition, Harmon will present new oil paintings as a culmination of her undergraduate work on emotion, abstraction and memory. 

Natasha Hermanek of River Falls is pursuing a BFA in photography with studio practice focusing on portraiture and self-portraiture. Using the human body as a storytelling tool, she explores emotion, identity and contemporary themes through constructed images. Drawing inspiration from both current events and fictional narratives, she creates character-driven photographs using costume, makeup and colored lighting to blur the boundary between reality and imagination. 

Delaney Huff from Kansas is a BFA candidate with a major emphasis in ceramics and a minor in psychology. Her interdisciplinary background informs a practice rooted in care, memory and emotional connection. Working primarily in clay, Huff explores how material process can function as a grounding and therapeutic act. Her ceramic vessels and sculptural forms emphasize touch, repetition and quiet contemplation – qualities she believes are essential in environments centered on healing. 

Flynn Lenzen of Wisconsin is a BFA candidate with a primary emphasis in ceramics and a secondary emphasis in painting. Flynn will be presenting an interactive installation of mixed media reflecting on how people’s relationship with nature reflects their relationships with each other. 

Dorothea Marsh of Rockford, Ill., is a BFA candidate with a major emphasis in ceramics and a minor emphasis in photography. On exhibit will be Marsh’s ceramic bowls and film photography prints that explore nature and the creatures in it and an homage to a lake house from the past. 

Autumn Wood of Houlton is pursuing a BFA in painting and Bachelor of Science in psychology Her mixed media series, “Fresh Fruit Always Seems To Rot,” will be displayed during the exhibition. The series explores the life cycle of romantic relationships.