The MAS presents a solo exhibition of works by California-based Artist Anne Hieronymus in the Burgess and Hall Galleries. Nearly 50 works of paper (including drawings, sculpture, collage, and prints) plus ceramic and mixed media assemblages explore environmental issues through re-purposed materials. Hieronymus considers herself a "maker of ruins," a builder not a painter.

Working in both two and three-dimensional forms, her improvisational processes create layered narratives that captures the moment of struggle between expansion and decay, growth, and disintegration. She portrays a state of decline that predates the return of the natural world using the same materials that have caused its near demise. Her fantastical photographs are based on her sculpture, constructed with hexacomb cardboard that
has been stripped of its outer skin, embedded with recycled party decorations, dolls, furry animals, fruits, flowers, etc. – a world of her indecipherable and remarkable imagination. Anne Hieronymus began her formal studies of studio art at Santa Monica College, earned a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Learn more about the artists at www.annehieronymus.com.