These wide-eyed grads may be wandering into the apathetic consumerist desert, leaving their coddled cocoons of nurturing teachers and supportive classmates, giving up their delusions of artistic freedom - but they will have rounded up an expensive education in hit-and-miss guided experimentation in the arts and if nothing else, find themselves a little more well-rounded for their years immersed in institutional playtime...
Here's a literal round down of some of what caught my savage eye at this year's grad exhibit...
starting with a single unfired bowl sitting on a rough and tumble bed-slab of dry cracked clay...
"It All Depends Upon" by Stefan Sollenius
to multiple ceramic shelves holding configurations of round vessels of varying shapes and sizes and drip-glazed in the palest tint of celadon...
"Stack" by Sam Knopp
[Winner of the Circle Craft Graduation Award for Ceramics]
to these tiny colourful fruit-loop pieces crawling up the upper wall from a much more frenetic installation flowing down to spread upon the floor...
"Stones Shaped by Chance" by Allison [Sunny] Karon
to stacks of ceramic rings strung up in random number of hoops and suspended as a floor-reaching mobile...
"Chronology Manifested" by Heather Lippold
to a lacy net of linked black elastic bands webbing its sinister way up the pristine white wall...
Untitled by Irene Lim-Khung
to an abstracted seated figure of salvaged wood cradling an ominous metal phallus secured by a loose coil of woolly rope...
Untitled by Corrina Suveges
to the puffed-up pride of an oversized pillow case as metaphor for la tête idéale, its skinny red legs weighted down by un coeur de rocher...
"Mlu" by David Yen-Fu Lin
May 5 - 19
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Not speaking for all lawyers but after 40 years of business law, I find this art unencumbered by stifled logic.
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