By Samantha Berkhead
News Editor
Seven distinct styles of art will be showcased starting next Friday in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts for this year’s Senior Thesis Exhibition.
The exhibition will open as part of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts and the Quick Center’s “Evening with the Arts” event, which features gallery talks and musical performances by art and music students.
“The exhibition features challenging and intriguing work by seven young artists,” said Constance Pierce, associate professor of visual arts, who directed the students’ projects. “They offer a wide range of styles, concepts and mediums including work in drawing, painting, visual journals, watercolors, sculpture and sketchbooks.”
The “Evening with the Arts” will open with a reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Winifred Shortell Kenney Gallery of the Quick Center. Student artists will offer comments and insights into their work beginning at 5:30.
Seniors Emily Buccilla, Tess Hanna, Kellyn Kautz, Neil Durkin, Sara Regal, Matthew Ryan and Alexandria Stephan will all display works of art they completed as part of their senior art capstones, according to Pierce. She said this will be one of the largest student exhibitions held in recent years.
The students’ work covers an array of different stylistic influences — from William Blake to postmodernism — and each student hopes to convey his or her own personal cultivation of art, Pierce said.
Pierce said this year’s exhibition will feature unique aspects. Ryan and Durkin will collaborate on a graffiti wall that will be created outdoors and then wheeled into the gallery, she said.
Some of the artists will also share intimate views of their creative process by displaying mixed-media art journals and sketchbooks, Pierce said. Visitors will be able to view the students’ conceptualizations and imaginative concepts along with their completed works in the gallery.
The exhibition will be on display through April 14.
For more information, go to www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.
berkhesj10@bonaventure.edu
