Gallery 5
Gallery 5, located on the fifth floor of the College of Fine Arts, enhances the quality of life of the undergraduate students in the School of Visual Arts by offering them a professional exhibition space near their studios where they are able to plan, propose, and install their own exhibitions of a professional quality. These exhibitions are arranged in consultation with the faculty of the School of Visual Arts and with assistance from the School’s administrative office. Students are responsible for all aspects of their exhibition’s curation, including selection, display arrangement, and outreach to the public. These exhibitions rotate on a monthly basis during the regular academic year. In the summer, the School of Visual Arts may use the exhibition space for other exhibition purposes.
Current Exhibition
Market
Monday, November 9th-Friday November 13th
Opening Reception: Monday, November 9th, 5-7PM
Initially referring to an actual place where goods are traded, the term "Market" has become a generic notation, a set of equations in global economics; it has become a spatial fiction. In the shift from place to metaphor to fiction, we lose the sense of site and location, setting and context. It is in this condition that "Market" seeks to intervene. It re-physicalizes and materializes the abstracted global market, and reverts it back to a local level. Commodities are displayed and reproduced as pure fetish objects, having been stripped of their functionality through the use of recycled and consumed materials.
Taylor Ashbrook, Ruthie Barry, Andrea Bartunek, Elizabeth King, Ben Loeliger, Anny Oberlink, Samantha Silverman, Andrew Thomas
Gallery hours
Concurrent with the building hours of the College of Fine Arts.
For more information, please call 617-353-3371