Past Exhibition

 

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Featuring work by Bachelor of Fine Arts + Interdisciplinary Arts students

Apr. 30 - May 15, 2010

About the Exhibition

"I will always have a special fondness for this cohort of students, because they arrived in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon at the same time as I did, in August 2006. We discovered the mysteries of Pittsburgh together and the hard working ethos of Carnegie Mellon.

I have seen these young artists explore a range of themes during their time here, revealing courage and a sense of discovery in much of their work. Art school is, and should be, challenging both conceptually and technically. These students have risen to the challenge by using a wide range of media to examine their own sense of identity: in terms of morality, sexuality, ethnicity, social background, and economic or political position.

The 2010 Senior Exhibition presents a rawness of emotion, fantasy and reality through sumptuous paintings, conceptual constructs, sculptural statements, animated anxieties and digital discourse. In many ways, these artists have found a means to deal with the duality of pleasure and pain in the pornographic realities, hermaphrodite fantasies, psychological obsessions and mystical journeys that are part of our human condition.

I have enjoyed the vitality of this group and have appreciated the opportunity to share their sense of discovery across the last 4 years. I wish them well and I am sure that they will have significant artistic impact in the years beyond Carnegie Mellon."

- John Carson,
Regina and Marlin Miller Professor and
Head of the School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University

About the Artists

PAST PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Apr. 30, Fri.
6-8pm: Reception

May 4, Tues.
5-8pm: Conversation with Artists and Faculty including John Carson, Head of School, and Professors Andrew Ellis Johnson, Joe Mannino, Suzie Silver, Susanne Slavick