Justice Art Exhibit Photos

The Humanities Center and the School of Art opened an exhibit related to the Humanities Center's annual theme "JUSTICE" located at the School of Art's Satellite Gallery at Charles Adams Studio Project. The exhibit ran during February's First Friday Art Trail.

The JUSTICE exhibition asks us to consider in visual terms how ethical transgressions and acts of violence turn on our failure to see others' humanity. Ultimately, these works deploy a range of media to evoke threat to our collective humanity that every unjust action constitutes as they also envision hopeful possibilities beyond the world we know.

First prize was awarded to Mona Bozorgi for Virtual Reality (2016). Bozorgi is a doctoral student studying Interdisciplinary Arts; Critical Studies and Artistic Practice. Second prize was awarded to Allen Smith for transmedia conversion (2020). Smith is a candidate and presidential fellow in Master of Fine Arts, Painting program. The exhibition was juried by a panel of Humanities Center Advisory Board Members.

 

Pictured above are second place winner, Allen L. Smith, Humanities Center Interim Director Michael Borshuk, and first place winner Mona Bozorgi. 

 

Bozorgi said that Virtual Reality is a series of different people and clothing lined up in front of each other and it reflects many different people and how the world understands these people. 

Justus Brozek
The Gatekeeper (2019)

 

Madeline Hernandez
Voyeur (2019)

 

Bethany Pitchford

 

Jessica Lambert
You Are Valid (2019)

 

Arash Ghahari Kermani
Untitled  (2014)

 

TKelsey Forkner
$3,676 (2019)

 

Sahar Fattahi
Position II  (2019)

 

Allen Smith
Color Crosses 2 (for the Love of God)

This piece was part of the juried contest, however, it was not on display during the exhibition.

Niloofar Gholamrezaei
With No Gender

This piece was part of the juried contest, however, it was not on display during the exhibition.