IvyGate Galleries: Art That Doesn’t Suck
Most art sucks. That's what L.A.'s late great art zine Coagula thought, and, after many hours squinting at art history slides and snickering through student-run exhibitions, we have to agree. If you've kept one eye on the campus art scene, chances are you've seen works ranging from distasteful to poorly executed to crimes against humanity. We feel your pain.
But we also know it doesn't have to be that way. Not every student photo has to depict a girl sitting by a window, or someone putting on make-up in a mirror (in black and white, of course). Not every painting must depict the Virgin Mary in menstrual blood. Call us crazy, but we think you can do better.
So it's in a spirit of blind optimism that we introduce IvyGate Galleries, a series of collections by artists in the Ivy League that suck a little less than average. (In other words: ivyTunes with pitchers. And yes, we are trying to beat another installment of that out of our critic.) Here's how it works: every so often, we post a bunch of works -- photos, paintings, sketches, animations -- by a different student artist, along with a wee bit of commentary. We're looking for stuff that's somehow surprising, arresting, confrontational -- in other words, stuff that will hold our ADD-infected readership's attention.
Our goal: to help artists reach a wider audience than their cluster of sweetly deceitful boosters, all while living out our wildest curatorial fantasies. It obviously depends on your submissions, so e-mail us your stuff at the usual.
Technical crap: Send sane-sized previews in advance of hi-res. Any medium is fine, as long as it works in our 2-D format. Understand we have a post width of 500 pixels (which can be linked to bigger files). We're pretty flex on who qualifies -- undergrad, grad, recent grad, pre-frosh, etc, I mean, what is art anyway, man?
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February 21st, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I have no idea which shows student art shows you have been going to, but I’ve been fairly impressed by the student exhibitions we have had here. This includes both the art majors’ shows and ones set up in the residential colleges through suddler funds, often by people who do it just for fun.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Dartmouth’s art isn’t so great. I’m so sick af bland, abstract stuff!
February 21st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
there should be a delete button so I can correct “af.” (this is what ivy schooling does to a man.)
February 28th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Coagula is still publishing – should I put you on the list?