An exhibition featuring this year’s Studio Art graduates and Aunspaugh fellows
Playing with Syn·tax
Opening Reception, during Finals Weekend - Sat, May 20, 12:30-1:30pm Exhibition On View - M-F 9am-5pm, May 22 - Jun 23
Curatorial Statement
Playing with Syn·tax offers a way to reconsider rules or order through combination and disorder. As with syntax, the works included in this show play with (re)connection and (re)arrangement to constitute new meaning. Some collect, reassemble, and record alternative materials like fingernails and receipt paper to elevate ephemeral materials. Oth-ers, with vibrant, sometimes dissonant, color, abstract natural forms or create fictional universes. Other works intervene in the syntax of tech-nology by manipulating and disrupting Artificial Intelligence or embrac-ing glitch aesthetics. Through the syntactical play of these 20 artists we are prompted to rethink standards and orders—from the institutional to the everyday and the bodily—and to consider how they are, themselves, destabilizing. This exhibition highlights the work produced by Studio Art majors, distinguished majors, and fifth year Aunspaugh fellows. Curated by Jennifer Marine (Ph.D. candidate, Art and Architectural History) and Stephanie Polos (Ph.D. candidate, Program in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology).