Tigermedia - QCC Art Gallery: Juried Student Exhibition (2021) (Department of Art and Design)
QCC Art Gallery: Juried Student Exhibition (2021) (Department of Art and Design)
Date: April 1st, 2021
Duration:
10m:45s
The QCC Department of Art and Design is pleased to present the 2021 Annual Juried Student Exhibition. The collected works represent the talent and year's labour of our faculty and young artists. It is always with joy, and on occasion unimagined awe, that we witness the creation of complex, eerie, and beautiful work from a diverse group of students learning in multiple disciplines. Participating artists this year are especially commended for their efforts in ad-hoc home studios during the pandemic. An extraordinary amount of resolve and invention was employed. Indeed, limits have been tested and by all appearances, creativity, talent and dogged skill (on both ends) have won the day. Brava, bravo - you did not falter! So it is with perhaps a little more boast, a bit more steam from the pipe, and peep from the whistle that we invite you to have a look at this year's selection.
This year's selected works for the Annual Juried Student Exhibition are unique in the shared and novel experience of making art during a pandemic. That said, excepting pointed subjects, little suggests these works were done under conditions any less than in traditional, equipped studios with instructors along side. The unflappable effort and creativity of our young artists always amazes. Works remain solid and polished; Jones's still-life with pristine color and form, Aguirre, Huynh and Darnley demonstrate admirable attention to detail in their trainers. Still, they are not unaffected; there is poignancy in the emptied faintly lit interiors of Cala, Tyagi, Brown and Sadikin, Stode's stalwart portraits, Villarreal's introspection, Lucas's resolve, and Velasquez's prickly tension in Ticking. Benjamin's Spot Illustration brings relevance. Yeh's wry, Just do it Later brings a smile; humour is alive. Seto's Sanguineous-heavymetal lends a tragic sublimity. And beauty reigns in the elegant austere architectural compositions of Kim and Yeh.
Congratulations and thank you to all the participating artists of the 2021 Juried Student Exhibition, your work provides perspective and brings joy. Thank you to my colleagues, JC, NS and KP and to all the participating faculty, a tremendous effort in instructing across the "distance", your patience and inventiveness have won the day. The support of the QCC Department of Art & Design, the QCC Art Gallery and QCC Marketing & Communications is crucial in launching these community events and greatly appreciated.
Participating Artists:
Emilio Aguirre
Fayaz Aleem
Jason Arevalo
Jade Baker
Brian Benjamin
Benjamin Brown
Daniela Cala
Daniel Cárdenas Criollo
Anna Chelidze
Urian Cheon
Alyssa Cortez
Karlvin Danois
Ambika Darnley
Christopher Dominguez
Fotios Eleftheriadis
Jennifer Fernandez
Cherubim Ken Fonacier
Yuetian Gao
Alexander Garcia
Melina Giorgalletou
Grant Goodman
Chantelle Gouveia
Yingying Han
Shuaige He
Travis Himenez
Jieru Huang
Rebecca Huynh
Jenica Jones
Zoe Jones
Xinrui Ke
Bora Kim
Christine Kim
Simin Liu
Xiaoxian Liu
Rosangela Lucas
Nadya Marin
Alicia Morales
Samantha Ng
Kelly Nguyen
Veronica Norton
Megan Nystrom
Odalys Perez
Christopher Ramlall
Antonio Restivo
Wilfrido Reyes
Jason Riera
Dwinita Sadikin
Jair Salas
Madeline Seto
Madelyn Soto
Sigrid Stode
Annie Sun
Ayesha Tyagi
Heaven Velasquez
Bernardo Villarreal
Zhi Wang
Angela Wensek
Yunlong Xu
Chienchien Yeh
Cindy Zhou
Huijie Zhou