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Honors Midpoint Exhibition

Artworks

An image of a red, green, and blue artwork on a dated computer with people in the background looking at other artworks
Image of students looking at artworks
Image of students looking at artworks
A wooden artwork with pieces of metal laced around the wood
Image of students looking at artworks
Image of students looking at artworks
Image of students looking at artworks
People talking while looking at artwork
Image of students looking at artworks
Image of an artwork made of a fooden frame and chairs that are covered in leaves
A 3d artwork made of wood and metal with students chatting in the background

 

 

Picture of 3d artwork and of people looking at paintings
Students looking at artworks
Image of artwork on three old computers
Image of students looking at artworks
People looking at a 3d artwork with paintings hanging on the walls in front of them
Multicolored image of a person hugging their knees to their chest
Multicolored image of a person hugging their knees to their chest

Exhibiting Artists

Min Mon | BFA, Studio Art and Graphic Design

Min Mon is a multidisciplinary artist merging political critique with his Burmese culture. He explores painting, sculpture, graphic design, and now 3-D modeling to engage with nostalgia, heritage, and personal experience.

His recent works reconstruct narratives about his birth country, Myanmar, and critique systems of fascism and imperialism from the U.S. to abroad. Taking inspiration from U Win Pe and Anselm Kiefer, Mon’s works are brutal expressions that cross queerness with tradition. Through experimentation with mixed-media assemblage, digital tools, and heavy-body paint, he conveys symbols of Burmese mythology through textural intensity and unconstrained visual expression.

 

Nicholas Femia | BFA, Studio Art and Graphic Design

Nicholas Femia is a sculptor/designer whose work explores the relationship between form, function, and life. He is drawn to abstract geometric shapes and undefined spaces, where human presence is rare yet subtly implied. Through his sculptures, he seeks to capture a sense of movement within stillness, transforming rigid structures into forms that feel alive. Femia works intuitively with geometry, where he incorporates bending, stacking, and intersecting shapes until they suggest an inner rhythm or breath. Each piece evolves as a balance between order and spontaneity, precision and emotion. By pushing material boundaries while adhering to their unique properties, he aims to blur the line between the mechanical and the organic, allowing form itself to evoke vitality. His sculptures invite viewers to sense energy kinetically or within a static matter to see abstraction not as cold or distant, but as something capable of expressing motion, tension, and pulse.

 

Sydney Grant | BA, Immersive Media Design and BA, Studio Art

Sydney Grant is an immersive media artist whose work blends traditional fine arts with emerging digital technologies. Working across oil painting, drawing, mixed media, and VR, she creates emotionally charged visual environments rooted in color, gesture, and the expressive potential of the human figure. Her practice bridges tactile, hand-made processes with experimental digital approaches, allowing her to move fluidly between intimate portraiture and interactive installations.

Recently, Sydney’s work has centered on visualizing chronic pain and nostalgia, using immersive media to transform invisible sensations into shared, sensory encounters. Through this exploration, she investigates how technology can deepen empathy and extend the language of traditional art into new emotional and spatial dimensions.

 

Jiahua Huang | BFA, Studio Art and Graphic Design

Jiahua Huang is a Chinese-born, Maryland-based artist who works across painting, illustration, and graphic design. Her practice focuses on the intersection of social identity, emotion, and cultural memory, examining the struggles inherent in navigating different cultural backgrounds. Through strong brushwork, rich texture, and narrative tension, Huang’s art challenges the audience's preconceived notions about “feeling,” “identity,” and “belonging.” Her work serves as a visual expression of cross-cultural narration and self-exploration.

Her recent works mainly focus on human presence, vibrant color, and the tension between the human form and its surrounding environment, further challenging the tension between the individual and the collective as well as the pull between the self and traditional cultural expectations.

 

Sofia Knaap | BFA - Studio Art and BA - Art History

Sofia Knaap is a Haitian immigrated interdisciplinary artist, who focuses on printmaking, painting, sculpture, and crafts as a way to investigate their lived experiences as well as the human experience as a whole. Their current works focus on dreams, escapism, and the creation of new matrices of existence. Through melodic organic shapes, bright colors, and fantastical themes, they work to craft intricate dreamscapes and vivid pieces that lure viewers to look at existence from a different perspective. 

Using their works of art they comment on this current reality matrix being one built on late-stage capitalism, neo-colonialism, racism, oppression, and systematic hierarchies that place those who are "othered" below standards of basic humanity. Through explorations of material, form, and content their work confronts feelings of despair, rage, and hope as they use their work as a space to transmute pain into power. With each brush stroke, imprint, and contour a new reality matrix where collective freedom, healing, care, unity, and love are paramount is slowly but surely materialized.    

 

McCleary Gallagher | BA - Studio Art and BS - Electrical Engineering

Mac Gallagher is a 22-year old sculptor, painter, and electrical engineer. In his 3D and 2D work, he emphasizes raw emotion and unpolished expression: grinding marks, welds, splinters, open joinery, painterly brushstrokes, unexpected materials, and unfinished surfaces fill his art. Using his engineering background to push the boundaries of chosen materials, Mac chases a sense of instability in many of his 3D pieces that reflects themes of trauma and uncertainty.

In his current practice, Mac explores the interactions between personal and collective experiences, particularly as a means to make sense of impossibly large themes of environmental and civic justice. How can we meaningfully empathize with the plights of millions? Where does one’s inner world collide with external relationships, and what does it mean that every one of us carries an equally deep and all-encompassing inner life? Where are the limits of human empathy, and how far can we push them?

 

Radhakund Ramnarine

This body of art showcases an investigation into the substance of human existence. Is it the responsibilities and expectations that worship a pursuit of a comfortable lifestyle or is it the complacency that we exchange for a faux sense of peace? Strip away conventional nature polluted by consumerism and we find only our raw inability to see past ourselves and our ability to strip others of humanity. 

Radhakund Ramnarine explores these concepts through paintings and sculpture featuring mixed media, acrylic paint, and live plants. By manipulating conceptions of nature, viewers can question and explore these themes for themselves.