Exhibition
Next Up: Reverberations
SVA Gramercy Gallery
209 East 23rd Street, 1st floor, New York, NY 10010Reception
Tue, Jan 14; 5:00 - 8:00pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Closure
SVA’s galleries and administrative offices will be closed Monday, January 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will reopen at 10am on Tuesday, January 21.
SVA Galleries announce a revitalization of their annual slate of juried exhibitions with “Next Up,” a series of shows on view at three of the College’s gallery spaces. In this reimagining of SVA’s long-running tradition of showcasing emerging student talent chosen by a prestigious group of notable alumni, “Next Up” will comprise three simultaneous exhibitions, each representing a component of the series’ central theme of connection—between peoples, histories, ideologies—across a wide range of medium and practice. “Next Up” offers visitors the chance to journey the trail through the College’s galleries from the east to west side of Manhattan, making connections of their own between these diverse, multidisciplinary shows.
In “Next Up: Reverberations,” nine artists create work in conversation with personal and social histories, weaving these varied strands of inspiration into a material to cut, layer, and piece together social commentary. Across drawings, installations, paintings, and sculpture, their respective practices connect past causes with present effects, prompting the question of how best to move forward. Whether embracing the sublime, rebuilding from grief, repurposing historical motifs, or utilizing beauty to deconstruct familiar scenes, works in this exhibition embrace contrast as a highlighting of contours. Making these shapes and throughlines more apparent, these artists encourage viewers to consider their own composite perspectives and the narratives that society chooses to elevate or dismiss.
Juried exhibitions have been crucial to the fabric of SVA for more than 30 years as a way for SVA students to recognize the achievements of their most distinguished classmates. Artists are selected from a large pool of applicants to the annual SVA Galleries call for entries, whose submissions undergo a rigorous examination of presented materials, including documentation of work and artist statements. “Next Up” was inspired by the “playlist” experience with each exhibition meant to be seen as part of a greater whole. This campus- wide event will showcase the work of more than 30 students representing eleven departments, including BFA Design, BFA Fine Arts, BFA Illustration, BFA Photography and Video, BFA Visual & Critical Studies, MFA Computer Arts, MFA Fine Arts, MFA Illustration as Visual Essay, MFA Interaction Design, MFA Photography, Video & Related Media, and MFA Products of Design.
Exhibiting artists include Evelyn Brabant, Ema Lauren Cadacio, Selema De Bellis, Kailee Finn, Camya (Mya) Hernandez, Yorknam Lam, Loren (Xuanyu) Liu, Will Maddoxx, and Xiaoyan Sun.
Jurors are selected to represent the wide range of SVA's creative community. Each of them has become successful in the worlds of design, fine arts, illustration, and the moving image.