May 18, 2021
Experimentation with the Void is a collaborative showcase featuring 11 advanced students from The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts Studio Art program. The show is at Exhibit 208 Gallery, one of the first physical shows since the pandemic shutdown began last year.
These artists explore different perspectives, qualities, and arrangements of contemporary artwork, with a wide range of intentions: dismantling gender and celebrating queer culture, exploring the internal emotion life during COVID19, examining photographic vs. personal memory and the relationship of identity to objects, re-rendering nature tactilely and reconsidering markers of progress through the lens of post-colonialism, creating contemplative spaces through still life, and expanding photography to portray the self.
December 18, 2020
Students of this new decade have not only had to be flexible but endure the unpredictable. The 2020 Fall graduating seniors from the Fine Arts Department at The University of New Mexico have had to make peace with their senior exhibition being presented virtually.
Creatives Together, Apart is a collection of works from Andrea Polli’s online capstone class, full of various student artists remotely and cooperatively working through their devices to bring their Senior Exhibition to viewers in safety. This exhibition enhances every individual’s works to give everyone a glimpse of who they are and what their artworks mean to them. Even with the social distance, they are still banded together – apart.