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PANORAMA: A STUDENT ART EXHIBIT...
Panorama, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's recent art exhibit, was aptly titled. The exhibit, featuring the work of more than 30 Harvard artists, including graduate students, brought together a diverse range of works of art, subject matter and media. Panorama included many conventional pieces such as black-and-white photography, oil and acrylic paintings, charcoal drawings and watercolors but also presented very unusual media as well. Some of these are senior Amanda Proctor's Native American beadwork, a wire sculpture by Rachel Friedman '01, plastic boxes filled with transparencies and water by Jen Wu '00 and felt pennants by graduate student...
...intruding on the man's personal agonies and demons. Despite all this, the painting itself was not dismal or depressing but extremely reflective, piquing the viewer's curiosity. Mixco's piece was further enhanced by the fact that it was sitting on an easel in a corner of the exhibit and therefore had a private space of its own. Because of the easel, the painting seemed still very much attached to the artist, adding to the closeness already felt between artist and viewer...
...Advocate's support of artists like /rupture and esp suggests that the organization is taking a more active role in providing space for and promoting local art. Teknotag, like the Advocate's GNR8R show last February and its recent photography exhibit, Sampler, in Adams House, offered a rare glimpse into the experimental artistic underground that is too often invisible at Harvard...
...most surprising works of the exhibit is 1949's Study for Seaweed (number 19 in the exhibition), a direct transfer of the outlines of a seaweed plant pinned to the door of Kelly's Bellelle cottage. At first sight, especially due to its placement near some of Kelly's transfers of window frames, one might mistake Study for Seaweed for window glass being broken by the intrusive head of a nail or perhaps the artist's pencil. In fact, it is sometimes extremely difficult to discern the content of these paintings. But that is not the point. You see, Kelly...