Exhibition

IF FOUND, PLEASE RETURN TO_____________: 2010 Senior Art Exhibit

Duration

April 30, 2010 - May 15, 2010

Artists

Caroline Berger, Alexandre Binder, James Chan, Rachel Dorrett, Missy Dunaway, Anna-Claire Harkness, Jen Inman, Xiaoyuan Jiang, Joo Young Kang, Julia Kennedy, Hee Ree Kim, Kyu lee Viviane Kim, Seung Yeon Kim, Jackie (Seung-yeon) Kook, Katie Kuzko, Christie Lau, Alicia Ledden, Hye Jin Lee, Joo Hyun Lee, Su Youn Lee, Seung-Youn Sara Lim, Andrea Meythaler, Anna Navasardian, Alissa Osial, Tessa Park, Marc Poirier, Carolina Ramos, Austin Redwood, Alyssa Reuter, Paul Rouphail, Alexandra Rubinstein, Morgan Sanders, Robin Scheines, Chan Hee Soh, Brittany Stanley, Elise Walton, Angela Wang, Ryan Woodring

"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