George Mason University's Center for the Arts

Huh Hwe Tae will be showing in the Mason Hall Atrium Gallery from February 15 to March 15, 2010. Tae is a calligrapher who deals with philosophical and religious themes. His show will involve a 'performance' work for the reception.

*This show may start one week earlier due to conflict with the Spring Break schedule. We apologize for any inconvenience and encourage you to check back often for any updates to the School of Art Gallery schedules.

The juried Undergraduate Exhibition will be in the Fine Arts Gallery and will be an exhibition of undergraduate student work selected by juror Sarah Tanguy. It will include works from all art disciplines.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 25, 6 to 8PM

VanLaven:
Framed as a medical waiting room in the gallery, humorous and sincere, multimedia and installation works raise issues including the cultural conception of wellness, how we perform as patients, and how spaces intended to be innocuous become charged with memory and emotion.

Sarkissian: Across the Body
This autobiographical video documents the pilgrimage to the Holy city Jerusalem. By the end of the journey, the artist marks her body with a BADGE OF PRIDE called "HAJJI TATTOO," an iconographic image tattooed on her right arm as her Armenian cultural religious heritage. And in contrast, this body project experience transcends from its traditional religiousness to become a pure form of self-narration, self-construction, and a live archive of her breathing identity.

The graduate thesis shows are required of graduating MFA students.  They are meant to tie in with a written thesis.  Students typically show recent work, which is a culmination of growth and distillation of ideas developed over their two (or more) years at GMU. Some MFA students, however, choose to show works which are an overview of all the time they've spent here.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 18, 6 to 8 PM

VanLaven:
Framed as a medical waiting room in the gallery, humorous and sincere, multimedia and installation works raise issues including the cultural conception of wellness, how we perform as patients, and how spaces intended to be innocuous become charged with memory and emotion.

Sarkissian: Across the Body
This autobiographical video documents the pilgrimage to the Holy city Jerusalem. By the end of the journey, the artist marks her body with a BADGE OF PRIDE called "HAJJI TATTOO," an iconographic image tattooed on her right arm as her Armenian cultural religious heritage. And in contrast, this body project experience transcends from its traditional religiousness to become a pure form of self-narration, self-construction, and a live archive of her breathing identity.

The graduate thesis shows are required of graduating MFA students.  They are meant to tie in with a written thesis.  Students typically show recent work, which is a culmination of growth and distillation of ideas developed over their two (or more) years at GMU. Some MFA students, however, choose to show works which are an overview of all the time they've spent here.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 18, 6 to 8 PM