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Weekly Update – A great big Woot! from Tyler’s graduating MFA’s

Maybe it’s spring or the waning recession, but Woot!, the group show at the Ice Box consisting of graduating MFAs from the Tyler School of Art, is a nice change from the art world’s current obsession with noir-ish nightmares. Or maybe it’s this particular class of students that makes this show so fun and friendly. With rambunctious works that explore everything from pop culture to current events and personal material, the 22 artists in this student-organized and faculty-judged exhibit are explorers at play. In some cases, the works are tinged with a little anger and irony, but the good news is that this show ...

Student post, Part 2

Here are some pictures of work we liked in the graduating student shows. We spent some time with and interviewed some of these graduates but mostly our observations are from seeing the works in the shows. Look for some of these artists to pop up around town because we know some of them are staying around and for sure they’re going to hook up with some alternative spaces and get themselves shown.

Student explosion of navel-gazing, survivalism and home sweet home

As in every year, we have seen most of the graduating student shows at the major institutions.  We’re going to distill this down to some broad impressions in this post and run a stream of photos with a comment or two in the next post. There was low energy everywhere, almost.

Figuring out the future — student shows from Tyler, PAFA, Penn

It’s that time of year. The graduates of local art colleges — and even some who are not yet grads — are putting up public shows of their art. Public exhibitions of student work were scarce 10 years ago but more recently with the market all crazy for newer, younger art and with art schools opening themselves up to the possibility now you can’t turn around in the Spring for all the senior shows and MFA shows. That’s not a complaint–far from. I’m just saying. As with everything there’s an exception — PAFA‘s student show. That’s been a very public ...

Glass, paper, time and space at Temple Gallery

Robert Geyer, recycled glass mountain, from his Tyler MFA show last week. In between the Tyler groundbreaking ceremony last Friday at 11 and a meeting at 2 pm with Pepon Osorio at the Lighthouse to see his Badge of Honor installation (highly recommended! — see my flickr set, and watch for a post soon) I ran into Old City and stopped in to Temple Gallery to see the MFA shows. I had gotten a heads’ up on one of them, from Corey Antis, a Vox Populi member who wrote us about his show. We’ve covered his Vox shows on artblog. ...