Like You Used To
April 22 - May 10, 2024
Edwin W. Zoller Gallery, State College, PA
A collaborative MFA thesis exhibition by Madisyn Simington and Glynnis Baker explored the nature of grief, mourning, and remembrance.
Thank you to our committees.
Simington: Rudy Shepherd, Steven Rubin, Eric Roman.
Baker: Brian Alfred, Dr. Lindsay Cook, Cristin Millett, Emily Burns.
Thank you to our installation help.
Laura Kern, Cecil Fish, Jesse “So Handsome” Plass, Emily Iseman.
Special thanks.
Mark Risso.
Madisyn Simington reflects on the matriline of her family and the grief that accompanies the loss of these women. Her photography, installation, performance, and written works consider space, time, and memory. How do we navigate after our guides are gone? What do we choose to continue as tradition? What do we let go?
Glynnis Baker asks the question of how we honour those before us, exploring the human desire to leave something behind, and the need to be perceived. What is bathroom graffiti if not hand petroglyphs? It is the defiant insistence in the face of an unwavering universe that I was here, I was here, I was here.
The show included a secret, bonus show in the back unused corridor attached to the main gallery. It was done to provide some levity to the heavy thesis.