Sunday, May 9, 2010

SAIC 2010 MFA Exhibition

I've singled out a few of the pieces that grabbed my attention at this year's show at the Sullivan Gallery. Below are a few I hope to see more from in the future:

Anida Yoeu Ali: 1700% Project: Otherance
Vinyl text on a white wall with performances staining the wall to make the text more visible. Live readings at some times as well. The wall alone was pretty high impact.




Timothy Bergstrom: Untitled
The tesselations etched into mirrors got my attention.



Emily Bernatz: It will reside in the cloud
Letterpress pieces using RGB and CMYK keys




Chris Cuellar: Where I Was + What I Did
An obsessive over-the-top documentation of location and activity. Web apps and GPS provide minute-by-minute updates at the exhibit on two huge LCD's. Archived here: http://yoursmountain.com/whereiwas+whatisaw/


Allison Fall: "to dust..."
Installation/performance involving the ceramic pieces on the wall that have writing and the stacked ones that are blank.





Jessica Hyatt: Zeno's Paradox
Sorry no photograph. Clever critique of perception. Two adjacent walls with with a series of panels resembling Josef Albers Homage to a Square pieces. One wall is actually a Lambda c-print mounted on an Epson inkjet print mounted on a Canon inkjet print. All values are supposed to be the identical RGB color value included in the title. The neighboring wall then has the corresponding panels, this time each panel as one full scanned image.


Brookhart Jonquil: Never Odd or Even
Incredible installation made to look as if the room were cleaved by a mirror. The right side is a complete reflection, down to the reverse print on the book propping up the leg of the table.



Moon-Kyung Park: I AM THE SPACE WHERE I AM, WHERE I SIT- Work System
Cut and engraved pieces of plexiglass stacked in their own portable book/presentation box.




Cha Seungean: Untitled
An incredibly delicate piece I'm sure most people missed. A 20-foot stretch of wall with threads hanging affixed to the floor and ceiling. The right end was almost flush with the wall the left end, maybe about a foot out from the wall. The photos catch the reflection of the threads at best.




Barbara Wakefield: Monumental Failure (detail)
The overall piece included a video, but I was all over the embroidery on muslin with lines of text "I don't _ enough, I'm not ____ enough..."





Ethan A. White: Revised Artist Statements Are Due In One Month
Comedic goof/critique on the Artworld and academic institution.




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