J. Wayne Reitz Union
Educating Leaders for a Global Community
No Cheese for Cheapskates: Work by UF art students Whitney Hackett, Vanessa Cunto, Kirian Reagan and Juliane Elin will be opening October 16 and running until October 27. Work will include oil paintings, photo collage, drawings and multi media designs. An opening reception will be held on October 20th from 7-9pm. Refreshments will be served.
We just really love this stuff. We can try to explain it, but we’ll never be able to completely articulate to you why we made it, or what it means to us. We can use a thousand combinations of words to try to get our points across, but you’ll never really know, because you can’t get inside our heads. That’s okay though, it makes things more exciting not to know everything.
It’s important to create things purely for yourself sometimes. Make something that you think is cool, something you like and are satisfied with. Don’t worry about project guidelines. So, on our own time we made some stuff, liked how it turned out, and now we’re showing it to you. There’s also some stuff in this show that we made and were graded on, but we are proud of those things too and that’s why they’re here.
Our inspiration comes from everywhere; from our friends, toys, textures, medicine, everything that has ever come into our environment, at any point in our histories as humans, even if it was just for a moment, it all matters.
Here are some thoughts on what we know as “art” in general:
Art is a visual thing. It’s something that needs to be looked at and experienced, and talked about less. Stop thinking about it so much; the meaning of it isn’t going to scream at you. If it did, then the work would be trite. So don’t over-analyze, just go look around, or no cheese for you!