"Intimate Strangers" Exhibition
SVA Gramercy Gallery
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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Intimate Strangers," an exhibition of painting, photography, sculpture and digital prints by SVA students and alumni exploring individual identity and emotional dualities. The exhbition is curated by Eric Lendl, exhibition coordinator of student galleries.
In her colorful mixed media painting Manhattan, Hyesu Lee explores her relationship with New York City, its various neighborhoods and its eclectic denizens. Her illustrative prints My Family Tree and what before life was like investigate notions of family and culture as well as masked beauty. Hyesu Lee is a 2011 graduate of the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department.
Jake Joonhee Lee's Lost Portrait series examines the complexities of emotion and identity through his studies of countenance. Using charcoal and oil stick on paper as well as monoprint and etching techniques, Lee attempts to uncover the psychological states of strangers and recreate their supposed emotions on paper. Lee is a visiting scholar in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department.
Stylistically drawing on Japanese wood-block techniques and print design, Charley Lewis' digital prints manipulate film clips of choreographed dance scenes using Max/MSP/Jitter. The collaged pieces, abstracted from their original sources, give the once-static image a newfound sense of movement. Lewis is a current student in the MFA Computer Arts Department.
Marissa Plant's black-and-white photograph series Underneath It All studies the forms and shapes that nude male and female bodies create together. Using a couple, often deliberately obscuring the subject's face to emphasize the formal positioning of the body, the photographs uncover the dualities between the sexes, both physically and emotionally. Plant is a 2011 graduate of the BFA Photography Department.
In an effort to identify with her family and situate her role within its personal history, Courtney Spieker collected decades of photographs and projected them onto herself and immediate family members. Using the layered images symbolically, she photographs her subjects behind projected images, intentionally melding the past with the present. Spieker is a current student in the BFA Photography Department.
Rosalyn Yoon's works often reveal personal narratives in a playful, whimsical manner. Utilizing ordinary things such as houses and hair to objectify herself, she explores identity through sculptural constructions, experiential collages, and comical self-portraits. Yoon is a student in the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Heidi Zito's paintings portray people engaged in intimate situations. Working from video stills, she depicts her characters in varying dynamic states, ranging from flirtatious to ecstatic. These scenarios - of a disrobing party in Undress Happening and a calculated encounter between a large group of people in Repetition is a Pleasure - bridge motion and repetition with largely unfamiliar sexual circumstances. Zito is a student in the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
[Image: Heidi Zito "Undress Happening" (2011) Oil on Canvas, 36 x48 in.]
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Schedule
from August 03, 2011 to August 24, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-08-08 from 17:00 to 19:00