Two recent Moore graduates, Logan Cryer ’19 and Jessica Shields ’19, have been selected to show their work in the 2019 Philadelphia Sculptors 5 into 1 exhibition.
The annual exhibition showcases the work of emerging sculptors, and highlights the achievements and artistic merit of artists from five Philadelphia colleges and universities. This is the twentieth year of the exhibition.
This year, the curators chose to select works not solely dedicated to sculpture, focusing on students who choose to work in a way that promotes sculptural thinking and movement.
Elevator, by Shields, is a reproduction of an elevator, complete with a closing gate and soft red lighting. An Artblog review of her piece reads, “The work suggests the kind of sets that were used in television and film before digitizing. By crafting ordinary objects, Shields questions what is real and what is imagined.”
A painted wooden rainbow, large enough to walk under, was designed by Cryer and is titled Closeness to Rainbows. Artblog writes, “The artist comments that objects can appear quite different when closely viewed, asking what truth is.”
5 into 1 provides recent graduates with a special opportunity to exhibit their art in a professional setting, and presents the public with art by some of the best emerging artists in Philadelphia. This exhibition celebrates the strengths of young artists as credits to their individual institutions as it also reveals the impact made by a show of their combined works.
The art is on view in the Green Hallway Gallery at Tyler School of Art, 12th and Norris streets, Philadelphia, through June 23.
