Cornish BFA Highlights, A Brief Overview

I'll have to go through these again and credit them properly, but what I really want to do is provide a comparative example of similar work I've seen in Seattle and New York over the last five or six years.

Unfortunately since my computer recently died a deadly death, I'm working from a cumbersome setup of wireless keyboard/trackball combo with the widescreen television as my monitor. I'm not mentally equipped for this kind of work station.

For now I'll say that I was fairly well pleased with Cornish's graduating class. They seem to have a finger more squarely placed on contemporary art than they've had in the past, and informed or no, I'm happy to see imaginations at work. I can also see how the production crew (*coughcoughClaireJohnson*) and theatre department worked overtime to give Cornish their super-pro exhibition space a lot of glitz, and this is precisely where I get tripped up.

Is my enamour of the show about the work or the presentation? It was so slick, I was almost completely sold. That is, until I saw less well presented work in hallways and upstairs. I thought, "huh, why is the work so different here?" I've come to the conclusion the ones I deemed to be stars just happened to be under the brightest lights.

So I'm going back this weekend to give a proper look, apart from crowds and the post-work commute haze. Then perhaps I can write about it with a clear head.

In the meantime, I'll hope my new computer arrives and that you go see the show for yourself.

Hold your horses, I'll credit these later (I tookt these pics myself with a dying camera!) but you can see a list of the artists on the BFA web page. Compare and contrast is the name of the game!