By: Matthew Seeger, Talon Staff
The culmination of some of Tallahassee Community College’s student artwork from the 2017 -18 school years will be on display in the Fine and Performing Arts building for this year’s Annual Juried Student Art Exhibit. The exhibition features over 80 works of art in categories including drawing, painting, design, printmaking, photography, digital illustration and jewelry.
TCC Events Organizer and Gallery Curator Barbara Cohenour explained a little about the selection process.
“This show was juried by our faculty, and then it’s matted and framed by them,” Cohenour said. “Then they bring them over to me, and it’s my job to turn them into an art exhibit.”
One of the artists whose drawings are on display is TCC freshman Adam Weddle. Though his piece was listed as “Untitled,” he was willing to take a stab at an unofficial title.
“I would name this piece… ‘Time Lost,’” Weddle said, referring to his visually captivating pencil drawing of a man with a clock for a head plummeting into a lake.
“When I was doing this piece, I was in a different state (of mind),” Weddle said. “I felt lost, I was new to college. Art class is actually my first college course. So I wanted to do a piece about feeling lost, floating around, dissociation… trying to find my path.”
Taylor Mason, a sophomore, presented a set of six very small, abstract, almost dreamlike paintings, all of them themed in a way that relates to “mirrors,” which were stacked two-by-two on a single page. Her favorites were the bottom two, as she was eager to explain.
“Just because there’s such variation in the color, and I got to use all of the different color schemes,” Mason said. “Because the top is chromatic grays, and then the second level is muted tones, and then these ones are all prismatic colors. This is the use of all four of those color schemes, so it has both prismatic tones and muted grays in it.”
The exhibition is open to the public from April 6 – 19, and is open between 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday.
