Pink, A Student-artist Exhibition at the Ruffin Gallery
Pink is on view through July 1, 2022.
In celebration of the community of fourth and fifth-year student artists of the University of Virginia’s Department of Art, the Ruffin Gallery presents a new group exhibition, Pink.
Emerging from a series of weekly thesis presentations by fifteen artists from the Studio Art program, the exhibition considers the color pink unbounded by the sticky connotations and associations of constructed contexts. Beyond its power to signify such disparate notions as queens and communists, innocence and excess, fleshiness and futurism, does pink have a material presence of its own? If so, what might a liberated pink make possible?
Exploring ideas including gender, disorientation, labor conditions, and trauma, the fifteen works on display in the Ruffin Gallery recreate the intimate environment of those Friday conversations. Pink combines the energies of those talks with the color’s physical manifestations – from far beneath the Sahara’s surface to an exoplanet 57 light-years away, from the fleshy organs of the body to the invisible edges of the rainbow.
Curated by Caroline Carter (Ph.D. candidate, Program in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology) and Brendan O’Donnell (Ph.D. student, Art and Architectural History), Pink is on view through July 1, 2022.