On Graduate Exhibitions Posted on May 20, 2009 by Julian Myers
The end of the spring term at art schools is marked by multiple convocations – symposia, commencements, barbecues, brunches, kaffeeklatsches – none more charged and peculiar than the graduate exhibition. A vast amount of effort, skilled thought, time and energy is expended on these events, by students, faculty and event organizers. And yet the exhibitions are as a rule ambiguous: grand, chaotic marketplaces where uneven intentions, practices and audiences converge upon one another.
My photographs, I should say, are from a specific event, San Francisco Art Institute’s 2009 Vernissage, but my remarks below aim to put forward some ideas about the general form, and not the one occasion. (more…)
