| Tall Wall dripping with edgy art | ||||
| Posted November 4, 2005 | ||||
Staff Writer Last Tuesday Los Angeles based artist Jaime Scholnick held the reception for her site specific installation “Phallacies Series, Part 1” at the University of La Verne Tall Wall Space. “I love the fact that I get to display my work here,” Scholnick said. “It is such a great opportunity to professionally put up your work and have people ask about it.” The reception, attended by students and faculty, displayed two pieces. The first was called “Untitled” and is a vertically mounted sculpture made up of rows of test tubes filled with light reactive fluids. “I am obsessed with race and that’s what the tubes represent,” Scholnick said. “Each tube is filled with a light reactive fluid that changes color with light and has become darker since it has been up here.” Scholnick explained how her pieces are never about one thing. Sometimes her piece reminds her of a jail cell, the way the rows are systematically assembled. The drips running down the wall is what she considered a happy accident. “I do a lot of drips,” Scholnick said. “I love how the ordered system goes out of control, the way the drops question the order,” said Dion Johnson, art department manager. The piece is actually a prototype for a revolving door made up of test tubes. Next to “Untitled” was the piece titled “Ship Exploded” made up of layers of large vinyl stickers in different shades of blue composing a slave ship. “This is incredibly beautiful but loaded and horrifying,” Scholnick said. Scholnick explained the passion behind the piece and how it sparks many thoughts and questions in her head. “When I hear things about the holocaust and so many other tragedies, I am saddened but when I see this I think ‘What about this?’ I’m not trying to say one is more important than the other but we took people from their country and made them slaves,” Scholnick said. “It just ?amazes me, saddens me when I think about it and when I see this art work.” “I saw the original diagram years ago and it stuck in my head and its crazy to see how it impacted someone else just as much,” said Sarah Miller, freshman English major. The two installations tackle social and historical construction of gender and ethnicity past and present. Scholnick, who is best known for her exhibition “Hello Kitty Gets a Mouth,” has had her work exhibited both nationally and internationally. The ULV exhibition of “Phallacies Series, Part 1” is on display in the Arts and Communications Building Tall Wall Space through Jan. 13, 2006. Amira Seyoum can be reached at aseyoum@ulv.edu. |
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