Spring 2010: Work by Melissa Bohach and Mitsuko Okamoto will be featured in a BFA thesis exhibition

Exhibition Dates: April 21-30 Hours: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 21, 5:30-7 p.m. Arts Building, Kimura Gallery

UAA BFA student Mitsuko Okamoto explores issues of the body in her BFA Thesis Exhibition titled "Water Drop." Okamoto is a painter who combines traditional Japanese brush painting with acrylic on canvas and various contemporary painting techniques for this exhibition. Mitsuko has created a series of four large quiet paintings, each canvas exploring the concepts of the innate power of water and landscape. "Water Drop" is the notion that our mind has spiritual growth and emotional power.

UAA BFA student Melissa Bohach gives her interpretation of the different paths a person can take in life using everyday objects in a still life format in her BFA thesis exhibition titled, "Symbolic Paths." With watercolor as her medium, she uses the apple, which has been used throughout history to symbolize life and eternity, and found objects that can have a personal or universal symbolic meaning to create three different rack paintings representing the extreme paths one can take in life: Abundance, Conformity, and Addiction.

The opening reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.

For further information, please contact Mitsuko Okamoto at (907) 360-6921 or mitsukoo@hotmail.com or Melissa Bohach mbohach@uaa.alaska.edu or at (907) 646-0653.