Graduates display their art talents
There is something for everyone at the USU Graduate Art Show, held at the Twain C. Tippets Exhibit Hall in the Chase Fine Arts Building through Nov. 14. The gallery is open from 9 – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and admission is free.
The exhibit is showcasing 16 graduate students of the USU department of art and includes photography, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture.
Trevor Dunn, ceramics graduate student, said the title of the exhibit, Passages, was chosen to represent each artist’s journey.
“It applies to our journey in grad school,” Dunn said.
Dunn, who graduates in the spring, said most students have about two to three pieces of art in the exhibit.
Sunshine Cobb, ceramic graduate student, said the gallery is mostly organized by students.
“I think the show represents the investigating and exploration graduate students do, especially in their first few years,” she said.
Cobb said show contains work from students in all three years of the graduate program. Cobb, who is in her second year of the program, has six ceramic pieces in the show.
“Right now my stuff is working on vessel forms, all sort of symmetrical,” she said.
Cobb said ceramics is a timely process, and as she continues through grad school she learns more about firing techniques and the process each ceramic piece must take.
Cobb also said there are several artists who are studying abroad whose work is displayed at the show.
Morgan Post, who received his undergraduate art degree from the School of Visual Art in New York City, is in his second year of graduate school at USU studying photography. He said the amount of work that goes into creating a single photograph is tremendous.
“It is very, very long and arduous,” Post said. “It takes about four and a half hours per photograph.”
Post said he uses an alternative, non-traditional process to develop his photographs on glass that is especially time consuming.
“It is a very old process from the 1850s that I am putting into a modern context and theme,” he said.
–karlie.brand@aggiemail.usu.edu