Fire in the Wet Lab
25 East Gallery
April 18—26, 2018
Reception: April 24, 2018
6:30—8 PM
25 East 13th Street
New York NY 10003
Curated by the BFA Parsons Fine Arts Class of 2019
The Junior Class of the Parsons Fine Arts program is pleased to announce Fire in the Wet Lab, a group exhibition featuring recent work by the cohort’s 48 students. Having experienced a number of collective setbacks due to recent events, the featured artists choose to reclaim the limiting conditions under which the work is made.
As the title Fire in the Wet Lab indicates, the featured work embraces opposition. From using a preservative to intentionally undermine material qualities to presenting a QR code to access a more traditional oil painting, artists pose contradicting elements in dialogue with one another. Even within specific themes, artists explore the dualities of ideas at play, some contrasting artificial representation with natural sounds, or presenting the extravagance of an event alongside the quiet of its aftermath.
Just as the exhibition is the result of challenging circumstances, much of the artwork exists as a fragment, trace, or embodied memory of moments past. As these objects represent the times and spaces in which they were created, they express the fluidity of a moment in flux, or a problem unresolved. As 48 artists attempt to adhere to the spatial demands of the exhibition space, they find themselves continually getting in each other’s and their own way. Rather than force unnatural resolution, the artists take advantage of the dynamic nature of unfinished business.
Featuring Artists:
Tiago Mena Abrantes
Anna Archibald
Rosalind Aparicio-Ramirez
Thandiwe Bethune
Alexandra Blair
Daniel De Boulay
Violet Cheverez
Kris Costi
Claire Van Every
Lily Fei
Caitlin Flemming
Vica GH
Morrison Gong
Anna Gregor
Michelle Guterman
Jamie Hershman
Emily Hirschtick
Ingrid Hoerrner
Gemma N. A. Hunt
Nikheel Ayer
Emmalee Johnson-Kao
Saudia Jones
Andree Jong
Kristina V. Kalabacas
Tori Keefe
Rachel Leckman
Jane Lee
Sumin Lee
Laureen Liang
Joanna Lindell
Maria Del Pilar Lopez-Saavedra (Pili)
Ellie McIntyre
Malique Moore
Gabriela Noel
Lauren Phillips
María Quevedo
Ernesto Rivera
David Romo
Morgan Sheridan
Alec Snow
Tanwa Supatchapichai
Montana Thomas
Vy Trinh
Sofia Yeganeh
Xin Yu