The Personal Made Visible

At the end of every academic year, the Eskenazi School of Art Architecture and Design presents a thesis show including work from each of the graduating Master of Fine Arts students. The show is a professional exhibit in the Grunwald Gallery in the Fine Arts Building on the IU campus in Bloomington. To accommodate the graduating students, and to give their work room to breathe, they divide them into two shows.  In the second round this spring was an exhibition by Sookyung Augustin called (in)Visible Identity: All the Little Things. Through her intricate personal adornment objects, the artist explores several personal issues including: illness, misdiagnosis, navigating the medical system and confronting the effects of early trauma as a Korean adoptee raised in the US in a white American family. Moved by Augustin’s work, Kayte Young reflects on art and connection.