A Tendency Toward Disorder 

Foundations Cohort 5

Life doesn’t stay sorted. Plans scatter, routines fray, messes return.

But entropy is more than disorder, it can also define possibility, transformation, and time. To create, to live, to feel excitement, we spend energy to carve temporary order in a universe that prefers to spread things out.

The works in this exhibit show us how to hold things together, how to let things loosen, and where beauty appears in the in-between. Works that reveal this give-and-take might let layers show through, allow structures to rebalance, trace systems that drift (A.I. we’re watchin you!), or keep repairs visible. A drawing can keep its erasures. A collage can hold both tear and repair. A sculpture can settle or slump.

Treat change as evidence. Change is the story.

About This Exhibition

This year we celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Foundations Epilogue Exhibition, featuring artwork created by students in their first-year with the Department of Art and Design. Referred to as the foundations year, majors and minors enter into the department with a variety of previous experience in art making and design. Over the course of the year, students are encouraged to experiment with physical processes and ideation methods that are unusual or are new for them. The emphasis over the course of the year is not on making perfect objects, but in developing critical, creative thinkers who will move into the major studio areas prepared to explore the depths of their interests. This exhibition is the capstone of a very transformative year.

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