Tyler Hall is hosting its 61st annual student art exhibition, featuring 99 works submitted by SUNY Oswego students.
According to SUNY Oswego’s official website, “The juried student exhibition traditionally includes graphic design, ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs (traditional and digital), sculptures and video.”
The show, which runs until Feb. 18, was open for all students to submit work, and the works that are displayed now were selected by jurors. The 99 featured pieces were selected from 280 submissions which is a stark increase from last year’s show, which displayed only 60 works.
The Student Art Exhibition Committee put together the bulk of the exhibit, but professor Cynthia Clabough, the Interim Director at Tyler Art Gallery, also helped.
“This year’s show was juried and that’s a decision the [Student Art Exhibition Committee] makes,” Clabough said. “Some years they choose to not have a juror and do more of a festival style.”
The exhibit shows several forms of art. There will be sculptures, paintings, photography and even some multimedia pieces. Clabough said that the work submitted used a wide variety of mediums, but that there has been a bit of an uptick in multimedia submissions.
“People are much more open to an art exhibit not just being the traditional materials,” Clabough said.
In contrast to the increase in multimedia, Clabough said that there was a small decrease in the amount of sculptures submitted.
The show being juried also did a bit to change the level of professionalism in the work submitted. Because it was a juried show, students had to deliver their work “ready to hang,” which increases the professional standard of submissions. This opposes other years of the exhibition, which were of festival style, and allows significantly more pieces to be shown.
The jurors for this year’s show are Lacey McKinney and Cris Moore, both of whom are SUNY Oswego alumni. McKinney teaches at Finger Lakes Community College while Moore is an art director in Syracuse.
The exhibit will be hosting an award ceremony and reception on Feb. 2 from 2-5 p.m. and is open until Feb. 18.
Photo via: SUNY Oswego
