Opening Reception: Five College Advanced Studio: Staying with the Trouble

The exhibition, Five College Advanced Studio: Staying with the Trouble, features the work of three Umass Art Students: Margaret Lepeshkin,  K.F. Otis, and Edwina Polanco.

Reception: Dec 5, 5:30 - 7, with informal remarks and gallery talk at 6:00
Eli Marsh Gallery, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College

This exhibition emerges from the engagement of fifteen student artists from across the five colleges with the theme of “staying with the trouble,” drawn from philosopher Donna Haraway’s book of the same title. Over the course of the Fall semester, each student defined the trajectory of their own artistic practice and participated in a collaborative discussion and research process supporting its development. Class members explored questions of materiality, identity, memory, embodiment, politics, community, and more. The works presented are diverse in their media and material, including sculpture, painting, digital print, video, photography, social practice, assemblage, collage, and mixed media installation. Haraway’s playful formulation “SF” has been adopted to reflect the complexities and creative possibilities of artistic work and community in tumultuous times.

The show runs December 2 - 12
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m, Sunday, 12-4 p.m, Closed Saturday

Presented by the Amherst College Department of Art and the History of Art