May 27 - Friday, June 17
Exhibition Opening: Thursday, May 26, 5–7pm
@jordanwood.art


Jordan Wood

is a painter and installation artist from Richfield, Wisconsin. She lived in the Milwaukee area for eighteen years and then started her college career at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. Transferring her sophomore year, Jordan graduated with a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. After graduating, Jordan missed the changing seasons, forests, and cooler weather of the North and moved to Portland, Maine to pursue a graduate degree from the Maine College of Art and Design. Wood is heavily influenced by film, which led her to combine the love for the genre with the New England atmosphere through her paintings. After graduating from the Maine College of Art in 2022, Jordan plans on staying in the New England area to continue painting her life as she sees it here.
7:45 am, 2022, Oil Paint on Birch, 12”x10”
Watching the World Go By: After my friend committed suicide in the Fall of 2020, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about mortality, the inevitable death of myself as well as the people I hold close to me. My project, entitled Watching the World Go By, depicts this loss combined with my mundane moments of sitting in solitude, anticipating key events of life to come. The selected compositions show the waiting and watching that comes with being young, excited for life to start but wanting to freeze it entirely, already nostalgic for the present happiness of the moment while it is being lived in. To compose the paintings, I use video to record domestic scenes where I feel aware of myself in time, present in the beauty of the everyday moment. I watch the video repeatedly to find specific stills that I use as a reference for my oil paintings. This process combined with the care involved in crafting the birch panels I paint on, and the endless hours spent applying paint to the wooden surface,  is a personal way to dedicate time and attention to the mundane moments in my life and the passage of time.


2:26 pm, 2022, Oil Paint on Birch, 9 ⅞” x5 ⅝” 8:59 am, 2022, Oil Paint on Birch, 12”x9” 6:59 am, 2022, Oil Paint on Birch, 12”x10” 5:05pm, 2022, Oil Paint on Birch, 12”x10” 7:48 pm, 2022, Oil Paint on Birch, 12”x10” 6:18pm, 2022, Oil Paint on Birch, 12”x9” 5:17 pm, 2022, Oil Paint on Birch, 9 ⅞” x5 ⅝”

This year’s exhibition features work in a variety of media, including: drawing; video; performance; sculpture; painting; printmaking; virtual reality; fiber; photography; and, installation. Seen together, the thesis projects hybridize a range of conceptual themes and material approaches as they relate to visual culture, the political landscape and to contemporary art practice. The work in the exhibition represents the synthesis of each graduate candidate’s experience in the Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art program at Maine College of Art & Design.


2022 MFA artists:
Kadie [Daniels] Annice, Anna Cowley Ford, Nicholas Goodhue, Andrea Jacobs, Thao Kieu, Michelle Lassaline, Johab Silva, Allie Wittman, and Jordan Wood.

Summer 2022 MFA Visiting Artists:
Daniela Rivera, Matt Hutton, Martha Buskirk, Lauren Mabry, Jarrett Earnest, Alysha Kupferer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Dylan Hausther, Shirley Tse, Josh Diehle, and Patrick Coughlin.
MFA Graduate faculty:
Chris Stiegler, Chair of the MFA in Studio Art and Assistant Professor of Art History
Gail Spaien, Professor of the MFA in Studio Art + Painting
Adriane Herman, Professor of the MFA in Studio Art + Printmaking
Joshua Reiman, Associate Professor of the MFA in Studio Art + Sculpture
Ling-Wen Tsai, Professor of Sculpture and Foundations + MFA in Studio Art
Kyle Patnaude, Visiting Assistant Professor, Metalsmithing & Jewelry + MFA in Studio Art
Nico Jenkins, Visiting Associate Professor, Academic Studies + MFA In Studio Art
Julie Poitras Santos, Director of Exhibitions + Assistant Professor of the MFA
Lauren Fensterstock, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the MFA in Studio Art
Seth Rogoff, Adjunct Instructor of History + MFA in Studio Art
Marla McLeod, Adjunct Faculty, MFA in Studio Art
Tracey Cockrell, Adjunct Faculty, MFA in Studio Art
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, Adjunct Faculty, MFA in Studio Art








Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design
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