SYE 2022 Art Exhibition: Lost and Found

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SYE 2022 Art Exhibition: Lost and Found

Senior Year Experience 2022 Art Exhibition: Lost and Found

Senior Studio Art majors at SLU take a senior year experience (SYE) seminar in which the focus is on being an artist in a professional capacity following graduation. It includes experience with exhibition and gallery practices and focuses on the challenges and rewards of producing art. Mentoring for each student, artist statements, and peer critiques of work leading up to the Art Gallery Exhibition are important parts of the seminar class. There is also an informal "Pop-up" Exhibition for the class halfway through the term where work can be displayed for other class members in a kind of practice-run. The Spring 2022 class was taught by Associate Professor Sarah Knobel and Associate Professor Kasarian Dane.

This year the theme for the Exhibition was "Lost and Found". The students as a group discuss themes and ideas that are common within each others' work and develop the title for the show. They also work collaboratively on a statement describing the Exhibition. The class and exhibit involves a lot of work for all of the artists, teachers, and mentors.

(See below for a photo gallery of the Exhibition Artwork)

Exhibition Statement

"Lost and Found is a Senior Year Experience exhibition that focuses on self-discovery and self-reflection. While the artworks displayed diverge in terms of topic and media, they remain coherent in their quest for connection and revelation in a context of loss. Themes of childhood, memory, banality, and intimacy run through the works, producing emotions ranging from melancholy to celebratory. The works were created at the edge of the precipice before true adulthood and grapple with a transitory state that can be simultaneously confusing, frightening, and exciting."