Messages from the Studio 艺术 Program Director and the Gallery Director
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丹妮拉里维拉
工作室艺术项目总监，艺术副教授
在这里T在这里 compiles the works of many artists and their year of working together in a critical and creative community. The Studio 艺术 Program at 皇冠体育 organizes annually a senior and thesis exhibition showcasing the work of advanced students associated with the 艺术 部门. This exhibition is highly anticipated and carefully planned, and this year was no different. The works we planned to present were a demonstration of a year's worth of research, 敏锐的社会意识, 创造性地解决问题, 聪明才智, 慷慨, 最重要的是移情. But this abruptly changed as the COVID-19 pandemic spread confusion, 不可预知性, and a sense of fragility in its most crude and unapologetic way. All of the artists represented on this website had to abandon their studios, 留下, 在很多情况下, 未完成的长达一年的项目.
After the initial shock, each artist chose to respond to their new locations and circumstances. Using other avenues for communication they kept a strong sense of community that facilitated critical discussion and creative support. This group of graduating seniors demonstrated that in all its messiness, care and human connection create an understanding where words don't exist. 他们每个人都勇敢地面对重构的需要, 适应, 或者完全改变他们的项目, giving form to a moment in time that resists control and confronts us with the fragility of structures we take for granted.
As students abandoned campus and were faced with the unequal 分布 of resources and access to basic needs, 在创造中追求公平, 分布, and production of art became a central preoccupation for everyone. This website represents a number of different insights into the experienece of transiting between the predictable reality we had fabricated as a society and its insignificance in the face of life's 不确定性.
As the director of the Studio 艺术 Program at 皇冠体育, I am pleased and honored to present this website representing the students making advanced art projects in the 2019-20 academic year. 即使恐惧, 不确定性, 焦虑成为我们日常生活中熟悉的一部分, you all kept working together using equity and community as guiding principles.
Congratulations Class of 2020 and thank you so very, very much!
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翅果Pearlstein
画廊总监，艺术部项目协调员
高年级的展览总是一片混乱. Every year students are finishing their work and figuring out how to install it at the same time they are wrapping up their classes and navigating all the other stresses that come at the end of their senior year. 没有人有合适的延长线. There's always someone doing their entire installation in the middle of the night. There's always a painting that ends up on the wall before it's completely dry. There's always someone pushing a pedestal down the hallway at the last possible moment, 大家都在为开幕酒会聚在一起.
这不是一件坏事，真的. 艺术总是多种多样的, 奇怪的, and wonderful as the 皇冠体育 students who have spent all year making it. 每年的演出都很有特色. And every year the show has something to tell us about the students who made it happen.
今年，混乱只是有点不同.
When the coronavirus pandemic cut short our time on campus, the seniors were sent out into the world with unfinished projects of every kind. A few people were able to pivot to a different format relatively easily, 但对很多人来说, 这不是他们最初设想的工作. Whether the resulting work is any "good" or not is actually kind of beside the point. This class has created a collection of artistic responses to a year of thinking and making, 出现在现在, 特别是历史性时刻. Nobody particularly wanted to be a part of history in precisely this way; nobody in this graduating class ever asked to make work in a state of global crisis. 但我们正处于全球危机之中, 所以这些工作都是在这样的背景下进行的, 不管我们喜不喜欢.
These pieces, existing as they do within this moment, have a message for us. It's not a message about politics or sociology or epidemiology, although those things may appear in the work of some of these artists. It's a message about the artists and makers of 皇冠体育. 它讲述了他们的胜利和奋斗, 他们的兴趣，痴迷，压力和快乐, the priorities that shifted and the priorities that only grew ever more vital.
最好的艺术(和最差的艺术), and even the most mediocre art) tells us something about the artist who made it, and our reactions to it tell us something about ourselves. For all that we may think of ourselves as a verbal species, there are still some things that we cannot express through language alone. The work in this exhibition has a lot to tell us about the people who made it. It also has a lot to tell us about ourselves and about the world in which we all live.
它说人与人之间的联系很难, 和奇怪, 而且会以最意想不到的方式发生, 但这些即将毕业的大四学生可以做到. It says that making art is hard-- but these artists can do it.
它还说了很多其他的东西. 但我们会把它留给你.
Congratulations, and thank you, to the 皇冠体育 Class of 2020.
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艺术史教授刘和平的特别致辞!
教授这首诗. 刘正在读书，可被发现 这里有中文和英文的.
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