Exhibitions 2019: Launching; Art + Design Foundations Exhibition

September 2019

Launching; Art + Design Foundations Exhibition features student work created in the four different College of Visual and Performing Arts foundations courses including drawing, two-dimensional and three-dimensional design, and digital platforms. Launching invites viewers to explore basic concepts of art in relation to contemporary society as prompted by works created independently, and collaboratively in a variety of media and disciplines, such as ​professor Travis Neel's "Disappearance Act" assignment, which asks students to develop a creative way to become temporarily invisible. Pages from hand made books from Professor Janine Wong's 2D Form and Shape class are projected in large scale, inviting viewers to go inside the pages, while select books are available for hands on viewing. Artist Brynn Vasil's site specific installation based on the twenty foot line project encompasses an entire wall of the gallery.

Launching Artists:

Bridget Bannon
Lauren Jackman
Roman Petrov
Alishanna Felix
Hannah Jensen
Megan Bettencourt
Maddy Bettencourt
Iric Rogers
Gabe Cano-Daly
Ruoyun Liu
Rachel Dufresne
Anglea Chapman
Michael DeSouza
Zeke Hussey
Josie Garland
Dylan Kelly
Alissa Taxiera
Steve Stromski
Brynn Vasil
Jacob Southerland
Noah Tavares
Sam Scully
Amanda Horne
Liz Szilniczky
Hui Qi
Peiqi Jai
Melanie Sandler
Jasmine Todman-Lopes
Michael Skahan
Chloe Bachstein
Myles Edwards
Ashley Gagne
Nicole Cowden
Colleen Brady
Lauren Fraberg
Jake Fay
Shane Dickson
Carlton Miller-Cordova
Mingjue Zhu
Tom Dugan

Faculty that taught the FOU courses are: Travis Neel, Janine Wong, Eric Lintala, and Aaron Bourque as well as graduate students Chris Smith and Allen TenBusschen.

Curated by Jason Loete

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