January 26 - February 21, 2018
Participating Artists: Michelle Authelet BFA Sculpture 2020 , Melike Baskoylu BFA Sculpture 2019, Max Bell BFA Sculpture 2020, Pedro Bello BFA Sculpture 2019, Margaux Benoist d'Etiveaud BFA Sculpture 2019, Maya Bjornson,BFA Sculpture 2018, Baijun Chen BFA Sculpture 2020, Sabrina Clark BFA Sculpture 2019, Amber Dauphinee BFA Sculpture 2020, Amanda Denmark BFA Sculpture 2018, Charlie Ehrenfried BFA Sculpture 2018, Erica Enriquez BFA Sculpture 2019, Harrison Fishman, BFA Sculpture 2019, Josh Foltz BFA Sculpture 2019, Olive Godlee BFA Sculpture 2019, Max Hertz BFA Sculpture 2019, Alex Hoffman BFA Sculpture 2020, Julianna Johnston BFA Sculpture 2018, Vanessa Kent BFA Sculpture 2019, Valantyn Koziak BFA Sculpture 2018, Sam Lavoie BFA Sculpture 2018, Reilly Leonard BFA Sculpture 2020, Adrian Medina, BFA Sculpture 2018, Jesi Nicoloro BFA Sculpture 2019, Brian Oakes BFA Sculpture 2018, Lee Pivnik BFA Sculpture 2018, Claire Richey BFA Sculpture 2018,William Samosir BFA Sculpture 2018, Katibelle Sharkey BFA Sculpture 2018, Palmer Smith BFA Sculpture 2020, Lisa Su BFA Sculpture 2018 , Dylan Trumble Davis, BFA Sculpture 2019, Rudy Whelan BFA Sculpture 2018, Emily Whynott BFA Sculpture 2020, Yifan Yao BFA Sculpture 2020, Renee Yu Jin BFA Sculpture 2018Curatorial Statement: The 2018 Sculpture Triennial reflects the experimental and interdisciplinary nature of the Sculpture Department. This exhibition is structured to illuminate the importance of dialogue and collaboration among students with varying levels of experience. The organizing principle of the exhibition was put into practice by forming small working groups of sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Each group developed a common conceptual theme and created individual works in dialogue with this theme. This process not only prompted deeper meanings and connections to emerge amongst each grouping of artwork but also created the conditions that allowed all the artists to benefit from witnessing the process of their peers.
Sculpture can be limitless in possibilities, as it is a genre that reaches out across disciplines, while challenging spatial and temporal notions, and pushing material concerns. However, there must be a departure point that initiates the process of making. The following themes compose the structure of this exhibition: multiplicity of balance; temporality and impermanence; modularity and site-specificity; systems of power, of oppression, of economies, of narratives/central shared power source; sculpture engulfs space; tactility and playfulness; interaction with systems and the otherworld; the body and its surroundings; a collection of artifacts, speculative and familial; and finally, rumbly tumbly, or synthesis of form in motion.
