The opening reception for the Scripps College Senior Art Major Spring Exhibition, titled “Sight, Site, Insight,” will be Friday, April 28 from 6:30 – 9pm at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College. This senior art show represents a culmination of study and practice on the part of 14 students, whose works span a range of mediums and topics. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will run through May 14. The gallery is located at Columbia Avenue and 11th Street, and its regular hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 1-5 pm.
Among the Scripps College students who will be exhibiting their works are sculptors, video artists, ceramicists, photographers, archivists, and fine artists working on paper. Included in this exhibition will be sculptural works by Megan Whiteford, whose installation addresses ecological issues; Jessica Lanan, whose freestanding wood and fiberglass works represent cancer cells; and Jessica Ruth Duffett, whose three-dimensional glycerin sculptures reference bodily growth and decay. Photography artists include Ilana Panich-Linsman, who documents Ramadan through the lives of two Scripps College sisters; Rosalie Mae Daggett, whose archival work with photographs of book collections question how it is that we see; Johanna Lee Breiding, whose works with mixed-media photography and found objects question gender and its performance; Elizabeth Serena Baker, who addresses the disappearance or invisibility of the Chumash Indian population of Santa Barbara; and Claremont McKenna College senior Stephanie Joyce Tan, whose large-scale digital portraits satirize celebrity culture. Working with ceramic tiles, Meagan Maureen Smith highlights the tragic circumstances of the women of Juarez, while Andrea Rae Prudente utilizes small components to create an original wall work installation. Artists working on paper include Marie Louise Sophonpanich, whose abstract and large-scale drawings reference polar ice cap shrinkage and global warming; and Nerissa Chiarapurk, whose lace-like large-scale works on paper address feminine beauty. Video artist Natalya St. Clair shows work that is based on mathematical algorithms, while Catherine Herring’s video imaginatively narrates the life of a female astronaut.