Exhibition

Artscool: 2006 Senior Art Exhibit

Duration

May 2, 2006 - May 18, 2006

Artists

Alexandra Reifler Alessi, Nikolai Antonie, Kohta Asakura, JimmySakai, Stephanie Armbruster, Yerina Cha, Eunice Choi, Bruce N. Colwell II, Chloe A. Connelly, Sarah Crosskey, Krystle DeMauro, Nkechi Ebubedike, Wendy Edwards, James Buckley Galloway, Sarika Malik Goulatia, Taylor Grabowsky, Jessica Greenfield, Carrie Hamilton, Lauren Heller, Sarah Hofmann, Y. Vivian Huang, Brenna Ivanhoe, Lisa Kaplan, Max Kaufmann, Jennie Keinard, YeaHyun Sarah Kim, Marina Kliger, Sarah L. Koljonen, Joel Kraut, Elizabeth Kupin Samantha Laffey, Bum Lee, Francisca Lee, Carl Li, Maria Mangano, Susan Park, Jessie Peterson, Yan Qin, Benjamin Rosenthal, Annalisa Schaefer, Ady Schneider, Miki Shintani, Vanessa Shyu, Jennifer Sunshine, Allison Theus, Judy Eva Tsai, Jessica Vaughn, Charlie Wright

ARTSCOOL is the moniker chosen for this exhibit by our seniors, perhaps relishing the triple dimension of the word play. Most functionally, it is the name of the School of Art’s server. Most literally, it names the environment in which their investigations have germinated, sprouted and flowered over the seasons of the last four years. More imaginatively, it stakes a claim in the appeal of art, for as many reasons as the works on view.

COOL can be as trendy and whimsical as fashion or as sophisticated and complex as a shifting paradigm. These works are COOL in their surprising variety, their experimental urges, awesome epiphanies, perfected gestures, sensitive interventions, ambitious attempts and stimulating resolutions — COOL in how they wildly or subtly mesmerize, and COOL in how they transport us to another realm, a new way of thinking or seeing. These artists are most COOL (and paradoxically HOT) in the questions they have asked of themselves and each other and the creative responses they offer to us now and into the future. ART IS COOL. SO IS SCHOOL. SO WAS SCHOOL. ARTSCOOL.

Susanne Slavick
Regina Gouger Miller and Marlin Miller, Jr. Professor
Head of the School of Art