Exhibition: FAINT / HIDDEN / SHROUDED: Contemplating Obscurity, Annual Eva Fierst Graduate Student Curatorial Exhibition

FAINT/HIDDEN/SHROUDED: Contemplating Obscurity invites you to uncover hidden meanings and symbols buried beneath layers, prompting inquiry into what is visible and what has been deliberately concealed. 
The artists in the show engage in literal obscurity methods through layering and fragmentation, shadowing, and cropping; other works in the exhibition are more abstract, remaining entirely blank or playing with less direct forms of obscurity to shed light on the underrepresented and address tensions between being recognized and remaining hidden. Selected from the University of Contemporary Art’s permanent collection, FAINT/HIDDEN/SHROUDED features exemplary works by distinguished artists, including Chakaia Booker, Elliott Erwitt, Ralph Gibson, Rashid Johnson, Jefferson Pinder, and others.

Co-curated by Ruthie Baker, an M.F.A. Studio Arts candidate, Simone Cambridge, an M.A. History of Art and Architecture candidate, and Olivia Haynes, a Ph.D. candidate in Afro-American Studies, FAINT/HIDDEN/SHROUDED: Contemplating Obscurity invites visitors to engage in patient and contemplative observation.

The exhibition will be on view from March 27 to May 10, with an opening reception and curatorial talk on March 26 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

Regular museum hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon - 4 p.m.; and first Thursdays until 8 p.m.

The University Museum of Contemporary Art is located in the Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts, downstairs from the Fine Arts Center Box Office.

Image: Barbara B. Morgan, Pearl Primus, Speak to Me of Rivers (1) 1944 negative; circa 1980 print, gelatin silver print, UM 2009.12.