Create and Curate: Student-Organized Exhibition

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Jim Dine (American, born 1935) . Tool Box IX, Screenprint and collage. 1966. Gift of Ruth and Jack L. Solomon, M.D., 1984. © Copyright [To be confirmed]

Inspired by the works of Jim Dine in our collection, students will investigate artist’s tools for this show. Tools are objects that were created to be used, and for many, it would be impossible to make art without them. The experience of using a tool can be an incredibly intimate and exciting one. Each tool contains the implication of human use: they were intended to work in our hand. Some tools have been refined through centuries of use and have incredibly economic, efficient forms. Others, by contrast, still have many quirks. News tools, particularly digital ones, can be incredibly difficult to learn and frustrating to use, but it may be all the more satisfying when fluency is achieved.

Ten student artists are exploring a wide range of tools from pencils and erasers, to Photoshop and the printing press. Some are studying the formal beauty of their object and are immersing themselves in specificity: its form, function, and manner of use. Others are considering their tool as a departure point for a broader meditation on the themes of alteration, control, and influence. Still others are using their tool as an entrance to the historical practice of creation.

Join us:
Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 from 5pm to 7pm
Davison Art Center, Hallway Gallery