NESAD Fine Arts Alumnae Group Exhibit

Monday May 12, 2008 - Friday, June 27, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, May 16, 5 - 7 p.m.
New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University
White Box Gallery, Studio 208
75 Arlington Street, Boston

Gallery Hours 
Monday-Friday  8 a.m.-11 p.m.
           Saturday  9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
           Sunday    Noon - 6 p.m.

Emergence
Curated by Mish McIntyre and Jessie Schloss

e•mer•gence

1. the act or process of emerging.
2. an outgrowth, as a prickle, on the surface of a plant.
3. evolution. The appearance of new properties or species in the course of development or evolution.

Arduous does not even begin to encompass the tremendous shift in life from student to practicing studio artist. From developing resumes and portfolios, securing studio work/ live space to facilitating income, it is not surprising that many compromise the production of artwork for rent and food. Most critical is the loss of the peer art community that graduating students have come to depend upon during their education.

Recently, some of the past three years’ Fine Arts alumni have attempted to overcome the stress and pressure of the first years out of school by developing a critique group based in the Fort Point area of Boston. This group aims to support each member to enable the continued practice of studio art and provide a place of critical review and experimentation.

The range of subject, material, content and execution varies greatly and to that end the critique group has engaged in a collaborative effort to create new works that require the exchange of work and authorship from one artist to the next in an attempt to explore the overall visual language of the community as a whole.

The resulting work is an examination of process and content at a micro and macro level, so much so that the work has taken on the distinct appearance of biological and ecological systems, some real, others imagined. The mixture of several artists per piece changes the visual language of the individual into an emergent communal illustrative discourse.

Emergence is both an examination of the real world struggle for these artists to establish their studio practice in the Boston community and an introspection of the micro community of the critique group as it grows and develops beyond the NESADSU community. 

For more information gallery@suffolk.edu

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