EBERSMOORE in Conjunction with Illinois State University Presents: MFA Painters will feature new work by four degree candidates and two spring 2013 graduates.

Ian Carey received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and has recently completed his MFA from Illinois State University. He also has a BA in Anthropology and Political Science from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Carey has shown his work in Chicago and Bloomington-Normal, IL, and Amherst, MA. His work plays with figuration and abstraction in order to explore ambiguities found within bodily and painterly gesture. His work can be found at iantcarey.com.

Megan Kathol Bersett is a spring 2013 MFA graduate. She earned her BFA from Truman State University in 2001. The artist uses acrylic, collage, poured paint and mixed media. She creates abstract cognitive and sensory experiences that correlate the instability of perception with the shifting environments and phenomena that help shape it. Kathol Bersett has exhibited in New Mexico, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri and San Jose, Costa Rica. Her work can be found at megankatholbersett.com

Gina Hunt combines drawing, painting and photographic processes. Her two- dimensional works poetically examine perceptual phenomena and residual traces of process as analogs for the temporality of light and existence. Hunt has exhibited at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Altered Esthetics in Minneapolis, MN; The 410 Project, Carnegie Arts Center and Conkling Gallery in Mankato, MN and University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. She received a BFA and MA in studio art from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Krista G Profitt is a storyteller and painter who recently re-located from Philadelphia where she earned a BFA from Arcadia University. The subject matter used in her paintings is taken from personal narratives and memories of events. Recent work has focused on creating a tangible, yet intensified awkwardness that relates to the subjectivity of memory and personal narratives.

Stoney Sasser’s mixed media sculptural work considers the empathic aspects of ritual and death. By use of heavy pigments, found fabrics and easily disposed-of objects, Sasser’s work urges the viewer to consider his/her own participation within the realms of commodity and death. She received her BFA from University of Montana, Missoula.

A third generation painter, Harry William Sidebotham II received his BFA in painting from The School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2009. Sidebotham's work has developed from the languages of systems, op art and figuration. He has exhibited at the Sullivan Galleries, Playful Zen Gallery, and Red June in Chicago, IL as well as University Galleries at Illinois State University, Transpace, The Chess Club, The McLean County Art Center and Grey Dove Gallery in Bloomington-Normal, IL.