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KAM Exhibition Challenges
Convention
Melissa
Mitchell, News Editor
(217) 333-5491; melissa@illinois.edu
University
of Illinois art and design students are challenging convention - and
having a bit of fun at the same time - in an exhibition on view Nov.
10 through Dec. 7 at the UI's Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion.
The exhibition, called "Amuse," represents the culmination of their
participation in "Art in Context," an interdisciplinary course team-taught
by art and design professors Sarah Krepp and Barbara Kendrick. Half
of the student-artists are graduate students; half, undergraduates. 
Together,
they represent a variety of disciplines within the UI's School of Art
and Design: painting, photography, sculpture, glass and ceramics.
"The artists in the 'Amuse' exhibition were challenged to regard the museum and its contents as both subject and site," Krepp and Kendrick wrote in the catalog that accompanies the show. The students' own art responds to the museum's collection of 20th century art. "
The 17 artists in 'Amuse'
restore to art of the past century a sense of immediacy," Krepp and
Kendrick noted. "Their urgent
messages say, 'look again' at both the art and its container, the museum.
Some of their work is witty and irreverent, some deadly serious. All
of it reinvigorates the 20th century collection of the Krannert museum,
causing us to muse or be amused." The students' proposal models for
the show will be on view through Nov. 16 in the Link gallery that connects
the art museum to the Art and Design Building. Krannert
Art Museu and Kinkead Pavilion is located at 500 E. Peabody Drive,
Champaign.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays; and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays.
