Ever curious as to what types of projects come out of the Art department in Building 13? The 2010 Annual Juried Fine Art Student Exhibition is a good place to start.
The gallery, located on the third and fourth floors of Building 13, opened on April 26. Gallery Coordinator Pat McClelland said the exhibition, which is set to view through May 18, received 210 entries and the juror selected 104 pieces.
“(The Fine Art Student Exhibition) is a way to showcase the work that our students are doing, to show off the type of projects and approaches that are taught through the Fine Art department and also gives students a little real world experience in a gallery setting,” McClelland said.
Independent Curator Eva Buttacavoli was the juror for the showcase. In a juror’s statement, Buttacavoli said “I sought works that I felt captured a glimpse of what is happening in the Dayton arts arena today and what may be poised to happen.”
The gallery contains seven categories including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramic, photography, printmaking and collage. The exhibit showcases 104 pieces that were created by Sinclair students in class, including Zak Moore’s best of show painting “Waking.” Moore submitted two paintings, “Waking” and a self-portrait.
“I was really surprised,” Moore said about his piece winning best of show. “I didn’t really pick the work I liked best (to submit). I picked the work that my teacher really like the best. I didn’t really expect to get in and I really didn’t expect to win best in show.”
Moore, a 22-year-old Fine Arts major, has entered pieces into the exhibition the previous two years. Moore said English artist Jenny Saville inspired his best in show piece.
“It’s a portrait of one of our models that came in,” he said. “I tried to get an interesting composition … (Seville) paints a lot of women in kind of disturbing imagery. I tried to get something interesting and shocking.”
McClelland said Burnell R. Roberts, who the galleries are named after, provides funding for the college to purchase a few pieces from the Fine Art exhibit.
“Every year, (Roberts) provides money to purchase maybe five or six pieces from this show that then go into the college’s permanent collection,” McClelland said. “A lot of work that you see around campus is student work that has been purchased through this show.”
McClelland said students have the option to sell their work through the exhibit. The Art department takes a 15 percent commission on all art sold that is then placed in a scholarship fund.
The Fine Art Student Exhibition is open to the public on Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. More information on the art galleries can be found at www.sinclair.edu/arts/galleries.