Colossal Wait: 2022 Senior Art Exhibition

artwork by Sophia Hashemi, Visual Arts Center, UT Austin

Artwork by Sophia Hashemi

Event Status
Scheduled

How can the weight of waiting inspire the way we move through space? 

Colossal Wait showcases over fifty young artists making work in the context of a rapidly changing social climate. Though their work spans a diverse range of media, content, and style, this graduating class—including undergraduate students in Studio Art, Art Education, and Art History—has shared the experience of constant adaptation and flexibility over the past two years in the face of an ongoing pandemic. Following a period of remote learning, these students returned to campus, determined to make up for lost studio time. This exhibition features ambitious work across creative disciplines, including painting, drawing, print, sculpture, photography, and transmedia.

Offering a moment of contemplation and a collective response to the uncertainty of this moment, the works on view in Colossal Wait reflect the journeys of these young artists as they have navigated a return to physical space and worked to bridge interrupted time. The variety of objects in the exhibition demonstrates the ability of this graduating class to climb higher and expand their horizons—not only within physical spaces, but in the emotional and mental spaces they inhabit as well.

Artists

Destiny Alexander
JJ Barrett
Aulona Begaj
Mac Benson
Aydan Bowman
Xinyu Chen
Bella Cheng
Madison Cooper
Alyssa Cotton
Anna Cottrell
Sophia Croatti
Barbra Daly
Avery Daniel
Luna Davis
Leslie De Leon
Abby Drake
Tahlia Drayton
Anna Droddy
Liv ElkindElyse Garcia
Ely German
Becca Gilbertson
Lauren Graham
Austin Haag
Sophia Hashemi
Patience Hebert
Charlie Hyman
Quinn In

Bre Jackson
Destiny Juarez
Sophia Kalamarides
Jennifer Kim
Sára Kousková
Max Kremer
Madeline Lawson
Alan Lujano
Rachel Massey
Elaine McMurray
Annette Meyer
Joy Onuwa
Rolando G Ortiz II
Caroline Padon
Diana Padron
Presley Parker
Caroline Perkison
Paige Perusquia
Zoe Roden
Luiz Rosa Nanini
Oscar Ruiz
Raegan Smythe
Milana Todua
Malyne Wilkins
Audrey Williams
Sophie Wyatt

hold
hold
hold