I entered the Anderson Gallery's Undergraduate juried art show earlier this month. My work was not accepted. This work is above. (It is a study of Francesca Woodman's work.) Last week I went to the exhibition of the chosen pieces and was extremely impressed with what I saw. It seemed as though the Sophomore class was a bit underrepresented, but otherwise, there were masses of pieces by the Art Foundation Freshmen, Juniors and Seniors. I was very struck by the time-based pieces presented by the Art Foundation students in Time Studio classes. I don't remember honestly having ever done a project in my time class last year anywhere close the the bar these students just set. I thought they were junior or senior kinetic imaging students when I watched them, and then saw they were actually Freshmen.
I was also very impressed by the sculptures featured in the Anderson Gallery show. The one that interested me the most was the five stuffed dogs hanging from the wall in the downstairs room of the gallery. This sculpture was a bit ambiguous and definitely haunting. On the one hand, these dogs looked like cute stuffed animals you used to have as a kid. On the other hand, however, the way they were hanging made them look as though they were skinned and hung in a line. To me, this sculpture was a strong comment on the bridge between cute and disturbing, childhood and something much heavier. Also, the mere number of the dogs/skinned dogs made their darker skinned look much more deliberate and almost sociopathic. This sculpture definitely started to do something to me as the viewer.
In general, the Anderson Gallery show made a huge impression on me, because it was really the first time I got to see amazing juried work from the other media.
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