Gallery 5
Gallery 5, located on the fifth floor of the College of Fine Arts, enhances the quality of life of the undergraduate students in the School of Visual Arts by offering them a professional exhibition space near their studios where they are able to plan, propose, and install their own exhibitions of a professional quality. These exhibitions are arranged in consultation with the faculty of the School of Visual Arts and with assistance from the School’s administrative office. Students are responsible for all aspects of their exhibition’s curation, including selection, display arrangement, and outreach to the public. These exhibitions rotate on a monthly basis during the regular academic year. In the summer, the School of Visual Arts may use the exhibition space for other exhibition purposes.
Current Exhibition
Text Worship & Pictures on a Wall
Monday, November 3rd- Friday November 6th
Text worship appropriates the words of others, placing the text directly on the wall as a gesture of veneration. The artists demonstrate personal understanding of the words through recreation and composition, in their own handwriting, of quotations by Anne Carson, Ayn Rand, and Jenny Holzer. Taken from their original context and placed in another, the text takes on a new meaning to both artist and viewer. Visitors are encouraged to participate in the installation by sharing a quotation or dream, creating their own text worship, and questioning the fragility if personal expression in an impersonal space.
Darien Bird, Lauran Donovan, Benjamin Swanson, Tanya Li
In Pictures on a Wall, each artist begins at a different point and gradually fills the space. With each drawing, the artists engage in a visual conversation in two distinct ways.
First, every drawing is framed by a triangle, a rectangle, or a shape with corners. In the beginning, the wall is open to any kind of shape, but as the number of drawings increase, the borders of these drawings start creating negative shapes around themselves. This limits the artists and makes them aware of where to fill and how to; in other words, the shapes condition the artists into filling shapes in a distinct way.
Secondly, the content of these drawings is often in conversation with each other. Though all images are impulsive, they play off each other and the artists find themselves responding to each other's drawings.
Tunc Turel and Wendy Zhao
Upcoming Exhibitions
Market
Monday, November 9th-Friday November 13th
Opening Reception: Monday, November 9th, 5-7PM
Gallery hours
Concurrent with the building hours of the College of Fine Arts.
For more information, please call 617-353-3371