Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition

Art often is seen as individual and not competitive or comparable, but the School of Art pits student works against each other in the Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition.

The highly competitive exhibition, juried by nationally known sculpture artist DeWitt Godfrey, features artwork created by School of Art undergraduate students. Godfrey selected about 40 works for inclusion in the exhibition, which runs through April 9 at the Ohio University Art Gallery in Seigfred Hall. The opening reception is open to the public and will be held Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Awards will be presented at 7:30 p.m.

"I thought the works submitted were very interesting," said Godfrey, an associate professor of art at Colgate University in New York whose work has been exhibited throughout the world. "There was a wide variety of approaches including the use of nostalgia forms, quotes from popular culture, narrative and story telling and imagery, which was sometimes very strange but incredibly compelling."

Given only rough guidelines by Director of Exhibitions Petra Kralickova, Godfrey said it was up to him to decide how pieces were selected.

"I tried to focus on work that I felt had a voice and was genuine and in the end I was very happy with the works selected."

The gallery is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.