Read an Interview of Cammie Staros on the Occasion of Her Exhibition @ SCAD Museum of Art →

Image courtesy of the artist and SCAD.

Cammie Staros’ Sunken City featured at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art through June 24 reinvents our relationships to the traditional historical narrative. Referencing antiquities against the expansiveness of time, Staros positions iconic relics as vessels with which to unite history and the present moment. Her aquarium virtines, which house seemingly anthropomorphic vases, are manifested as self-sustaining biomes aptly referencing the nuances of the lifetime. Staros’ exhibition uniquely encapsulates the passage of time, while simultaneously illuminating the role of the object in the context of human systems. Her modernization, yet simultaneous preservation, of the iconic relic speaks to the primal instinctual basis of a commodity-driven culture and the modern conceptualization of value. Read more.

Sunken City is organized by SCAD Museum of Art curator Ben Tollefson and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2024.

GENDERQUAKE Is A Temporal Distillation of Fashion's Evolution @ SCAD Museum of Art for SCAD deFINE ART 2024

An ode to the evolution of fashion from the 20th century to the present day, GENDERQUAKE: Liberation, Appropriation, Rejection represents the progression of the fashion protagonist through time. The group exhibition is an amalgamation of fashion’s trending extremes, representing the strategic placement of garment on the body. The show assigns nuance to the body in form and the way clothing chooses to rest. The corporeal identity celebrates the dynamic nature of gender; its emphasis lies in the multiplicity of form and operation with the growing milieu. Light is strategically implemented here; coloration is obscured and distorted recurrently so that color takes preference over form and form takes precedence over color. We are led to examine the multidimensionality of attire in its own context. The augmentations of light are fleeting; the shift is gradual, but with each minute transposition one is delicately subdued into another reality, another dimension, to another way of seeing. We move linearly through time and metaphysically through light. GENDERQUAKE epitomizes fashion’s unique relationship to timelessness.

GENDERQUAKE is guest-curated by Stefano Tonchi with Marta Franceschini and presented as part of Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) deFINE ART 2024 through June 24.

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Read an Interview of Holly Hendry on the Occasion of Her Exhibition @ SCAD Museum of Art for SCAD deFINE ART 2024 →

Holly Hendry, Her bones begin to bend, 2024. Image courtesy of SCAD.

Holly Hendry’s Watermarks, featured at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art through June 24, is a site-specific oasis which playfully investigates the way water runs through virtually every facet of human life. Situated outside the museum in glass vitrines overlooking Turner Boulevard, Hendry’s four sculptural pieces encounter the world in an unconventional way. The architectural display is situated in the community; students pass it every morning on their way to class. The significance behind the work in this context becomes ever-evolving, effortlessly aligning with the shifting elements of the everyday. Her edifices traverse intricate concepts that range from the expansiveness of architecture, societal conceptions of the female form, to the connectivity of bodies via water. Interestingly balancing the lightness of uplifting artistic figuration with the weight of impending doom as it relates to our not-at-all-ubiquitous freshwater supply, Hendry’s sculptural forms are dynamic manifestations of life on earth. Read more.

Watermarks is organized by SCAD Museum of Art chief curator Daniel S. Palmer with assistant curator Haley Clouser and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2024.