DPI Show One 2022
Owen Gavis, Algorithmic Output 5 - Bridge.
On view thru Thursday, March 17 at 5 PM
An exhibition featuring works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia by graduating seniors from the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts
SHOW ONE is the first in a series of two BFA exhibitions of the work of the graduating Photography & Imaging class. It is installed in the Gulf + Western Gallery (1st floor rear lobby) and the 8th Floor Gallery at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). It will remain on view through March 18, 2022.
The 2022 DPI BFA Exhibition SHOW ONE presents 22 artistic thesis projects from this year's graduating class of the next generation of artists. Expanding across the first and eighth floor of NYU Tisch, the exhibition features everything from photographs, images, books, paintings and videos to sounds, installations, and interactive experiences. These artists in this year’s graduating class go above and beyond traditional notions of the photograph, blurring the lines between mediums, materials, and fields of knowledge, to redefine what it means to be a photographer, an artist, and a student in a constantly evolving world. Their work addresses contemporary themes of identity, the body, place, time, spirituality, technology, memory, and globalization and serves as their capstone project providing just a peek into what they’ve learned during their time at NYU, a school that fosters global perspectives and critical thinkers.
Austin Fenn, Reality's Rhetoric
projects featured in this exhibition
Alex Montgomery, American Cuisine for the New Home Cook
American Cuisine For the New Home Cook is a satirical cookbook that examines the interaction between humor and food through the eyes of a disgruntled former chef.
Amber McKenzie, The Philosophy of Water: Reflections on Refractions
This series explores water’s adaptable and effortless flow through refractions. We can live a more fulfilling life by embodying the characteristics of water and accepting the inevitability of change.
Austin Fenn, Reality’s Rhetoric
Reality's Rhetoric explores the essence of consumerism.
Daniel Kyungjun Kim, Made in America
Made in America (2021) is a photographic commentary on the privileged unconscious within people in a capitalistic society. The works in the series formulate a discourse through the construction of objects and photographic strategies.
Daniela Bologna, Memory Taxidermy
Memory Taxidermy is an exploration of the frantic anxiety and chronic nostalgia that stems from the ephemeral and unreliable nature of memories.
Devan Marz, Sessions: 2021
Organic documentation of individuals in the hip-hop industry through capturing their artistic aura as complementary to their identity and existence.
Elena Gutierrez, samplespls_version2_new3.als
samplespls_version2_new3.als is an exorcism of musical ideas that explores process, form, abstraction, and emotion while embracing the derivative nature of art.
Emily Contreras Gómez, GAME OVER
The nuances of platonic and romantic relationships formed in video games.
Eric Hart Jr., When I Think About Power
Through the realm of Black and White photography this photo series, When I Think About Power captures both internal conflict and external embrace surrounding shifting notions of Black masculinity.
Ines Bu, Girlboss: Powerful and Empowered
Women from all backgrounds share their thoughts and experiences on what it means to be a woman today, focusing on a personal aspect of their lives that makes them feel the most comfortable, powerful, and empowered. Each image is accompanied by a short booklet that deep-dives into the lives and beliefs of the subject.
Ivo Thomas, Make Maps, Not Photos
Make Maps, Not Photos is a quiet expression of hope for life untethered from the pretensions of an ordered world.
Jeff Thomas, Bull in a China Shop
Thurston&Thomas™ Pharmaceuticals politely asks the question, "Would you even know?"
Jiaqi Liu, The Clock
An interactive project that converges each viewer's individualized experience of the passage of time into a fundamental discussion of the distance between abstraction and substance, the definition of an object and the object itself.
Juliana Spitz, To Juliana Lots of Love
This project is about the people who remind me of my worth, and consistently push me to be the best version of myself, my best friends.
Layton Davis, Designing Negatives
Architecture is stripped of its context, its necessity, and rendered useless, yet still shown objectively, its original form, untouched but in conversation with a new medium.
LYLA, The Newtown Creek
Newtown Creek - the intersection of the largest oil spill and necessary planned clean up and the underground boating community housed in its confines.
Owen Gavis, Industrial Revolutions: Algorithmic Outputs: 1-5
The program attempts to align these fragments based on correlation of color and value but is unable to see the work in its entirety, instead relegated to looking at it in pieces. The images become fragmented, identifying with digital visual language, they’re original archival purpose fades into obscurity.
Rhianydd Hylton, These Roots of Ours
With a focus on texture and performance, These Roots of Ours creates a space in which Black women’s hair becomes an entity of its own—forming connections, shifting as the world moves around it, reaching out from one’s scalp and owning its many manifestations.
Talia Rose Barton, Subscribe Now
Subscribe Now is a collaboration with student sex workers to break the stigma surrounding sex work and talk about the balance of being a student and sex worker.
Wyatt Coe, syndrome
Syndrome illustrates a conflict between the conscious and subconscious mind.
Wyatt Humphreys, American Framework: An Unbrainwashing
American Framework is a deconstruction of my childhood, and rebuttals to the propaganda that made me.
Yi Pan, Mound
This project attempts to unfold the evidence of the cultural relics, which blended with the modernized China, through photographs, which were taken in the status of “now”.
