Sesnon Gallery’s annual Irwin Scholarship Award exhibition showcases some of UCSC’s most promising young artists working in painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, social practice, and digital media.
The William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship Fund was established in 1986, generating annual merit scholarships to further the education of selected UC Santa Cruz art students.
Our exhibition is an invitation for dialogue.
We recall our origins.
We invite the audience to ritual spaces.
We question the notions of luxury and wealth.
We reveal what authorities hide and what powers instill fear.
We question the bounds of the body and the spaces we take up.
We interrogate the logistics of urbanization.
We create awareness and dialogue alongside ecology.
We notice the improprieties of societal labor.
We seek reckoning and healing.
We find solace in abstraction.
We solicit and personify the ego.
We explore American landscapes through current technology.
Reception: Wednesday, May 27, 5–7pm
at the Sesnon Gallery, Faculty Gallery, and Sesnon Underground Gallery
Free to the public
For more information contact the Sesnon Gallery:
sesnon@ucsc.edu
Gallery hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5 p.m.
Wednesday 12-8 p.m.
Photo Credit: Seth Andrews