Save the Date!

School of Art Graduate Thesis Show: Gwynneth VanLaven and Nelly Sarkissian

  • March 15, 2010 - March 26, 2010
  • Opening Reception: Thursday, March 18, 6 to 8 PM

Fine Arts Galleries A & B, School of Art, George Mason University

VanLaven:Please Wait.
Framed as a medical waiting room in the gallery, humorous and sincere, multimedia and installation works raise issues including the cultural conception of wellness, how we perform as patients, and how spaces intended to be innocuous become charged with memory and emotion.

Sarkissian: Across the Body
This autobiographical video documents the pilgrimage to the Holy city Jerusalem. By the end of the journey, the artist marks her body with a BADGE OF PRIDE called “HAJJI TATTOO,” an iconographic image tattooed on her right arm as her Armenian cultural religious heritage. And in contrast, this body project experience transcends from its traditional religiousness to become a pure form of self-narration, self-construction, and a live archive of her breathing identity.