February 5 - March 6, 2026

An annual exhibition of artworks by first and second year Master of Fine Arts Candidates in Studio Arts at the School of Fine Arts at UConn.. The exhibition is curated by second year MFA candidate Shuning Wang.

To See, Still  considers how ways of looking are sustained, shaped, and reformed through the ongoing act of artmaking. In an era saturated with sensory information, attention is often pulled outward—fragmented across constant stimuli and accelerated modes of consumption. To See, Still gathers works across multiple media that redirect focus toward quieter conditions of perception: moments within making when the pace slows, and material, intuition, and thought begin to align.

Across drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, art-making functions as a form of inquiry rather than resolution. The works reflect varied approaches—some immediate, some gradual—yet all unfold through continuity, repetition, and sustained attention. Each artistic practice maintains its own rhythm while contributing to a shared field of exchange, where meaning emerges through duration rather than conclusion.

The title To See, Still plays on the dual meaning of still—as persistence and as quiet. It gestures both toward the act of continuing to look and toward the conditions that make such looking possible.

Here, looking becomes relational: a meeting between body and material, memory and place, presence and change. The exhibition invites reflection on how and why we look—and on what becomes possible when we allow space for that looking to remain open.

Image: installation by Rosely Htoo