“A Place of Insight” Exhibition
Pocket Utopia
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“A Place of Insight,” 8 University of Delaware, MFA Graduates explore different connections to cultural practices. Each graduate student will present very different works from one another, using different materials and different themes but there’s a similar mood. This group of graduate students interacts with each other and is therefore linked to each in their focus. Throughout their last semester, Pocket Utopia’s Austin Thomas worked with this diverse group to select the work in the gallery.
Ian Sampson, an artist uniting the narrative talents of a writer with drawing ability, uses the gallery’s wall as blank page. Daisy Quezada molds a bra out of porcelain, resulting in a single work that combines egalitarian sensibility and minimalist restraint. Coreena Affleck’s time-based ceramic performance will interact on the sidewalk, while her ceramic sculptures inside the gallery will be simultaneously entropic and ostensibly a more traditional still life form.
Combining sprayed areas with other techniques, Oscar Guerra, achieves an off-handed result that nonetheless brings Matisse to mind in his painting. Marian Stasiorowski’s photographs of Philadelphia’s urban fringes thread Walker Evans with Robert Smithson. Using a clay slip line, Ashley Barber achieves painterly marks bringing discrete objects into focus. Dave Krevolin’s statuesque female allegorical figure raises one arm triumphantly smartphone in hand. Michael Roche’s large suspended ceramic vessel officiates as both gatekeeper to this group exhibition and harbinger for the display beyond.
[Image: Oscar Guerra, Untitled, Oil on canvas 2014]
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Schedule
from May 04, 2014 to May 18, 2014
Gallery Talk: Monday, May 5, 6pm – Sharon Louden, editor, Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, essays by forty living artists and Troy Richards, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Delaware
Opening Reception on 2014-05-04 from 18:00 to 20:00