Event Host: Urban Arts Space
Short Description: In Cahoots is an exhibition by the first-year Department of Art MFA cohort: Lydia Cornett, Brett Davis, Christine Fashion, James Hartunian, Julia Matejcek, Sara Jean Ruiz, Akeylah Wellington and Chantal Wnuk.
We’re doing a group show—will you set up the Zoom or shall I? The color of it depends on the lights James uses. This is a greeting. Like a wave. If we wave like this, can you see us? What is necessary to say you’re in school? A floating head, an open mind. Do we even go here?
We’re snatching time to meet. We’re stealing time and space to get to know one another. Are we internet friends are we internet friends like are we real friends? How tall are you in real life? If we connect to the same Wi-Fi, are we closer?
I’m trying my best more times this year than I have in my entire life. What is togetherness now? What is a substitute for going out to a bar? What is a substitute for running into someone in a hallway? What is Halloween alone? Halloween can get wacky in art like trash into treasure. I forgot how good this was. It is profoundly about nothing. Dumb art dumb pretty art.
Remember when there was a global pandemic and we had to make do? No hierarchy in our duck line but we are all waddling. What if I Google how to make a dollar out of fifteen cents? I just go to my studio and I play. We are a raft of ducks. We are a gaggle of geese. Beep boop beep boop fun.
In Cahoots is an exhibition by the first-year Department of Art MFA cohort: Lydia Cornett, Brett Davis, Christine Fashion, James Hartunian, Julia Matejcek, Sara Jean Ruiz, Akeylah Wellington and Chantal Wnuk.
