his month’s student curator and guest blogger Niyati Dave '15 discusses her show “Camera Exotica: Clichés, Counter-Narratives and Cultural Clashes” which will be on view FRIDAY, April 3 from 12-4 PM in the Cunningham Center.
Qureshi’s choice to represent the male figure as a basic outline and the female figure in detail calls into question traditional gender roles in Mughal painting, a field typically dominated by men.
The fun in creating this exhibition was largely in the diversity of interpretations that we can apply to collage. Across medium and aesthetic mood, these works on paper evoke stories and senses through layers, both visual and material.
Moore’s illustrations of Prometheus underscore the mythical character’s nobility and courage, rather than his suffering; he is not the tortured hero chained against the rock, but the strong hero.
December 11 is David Becker Day, presenting the perfect occasion to interact deeply with a work of art and particularly a work of art that speaks deeply to your personal values or beliefs.
Six students who enrolled in the colloquium, French and Italian Drawings: Renaissance through Romanticism, developed an installation of French and Italian Drawings from the SCMA collection. Students wrote their own wall labels for the installation, a selection of which are shown below.
Cass Bird '99 works as both a fine art and commercial photographer in Brooklyn, NY. While her magazine work sensuously portrays celebrities, models, and pop culture icons, her photographs of friends, acquaintances, and inspirational figures are far more personal, challenging, and moving.
By combining each artwork with poems, prose, and quotes from authors from the same period, 'Between the Lines' gives the viewer a new perspective on the influential and interpretive relationship between 20th century art and literature.
There is an unmistakable magic in Tara Donovan’s work. 'Untitled' is a fairly early experimental two-dimensional work in which Donovan used soap bubbles as drawing tool creating a unique image that captured an ephemeral occurrence.
Featuring 20 prints and photographs from the permanent collection, this summer's corridor exhibition 'Image and After-Image' looks at James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s etchings and drypoints alongside the development of photography in the second half of the nineteenth century.