2008 Woodie Awards
Halloween Art Exhibition Displayed on Campus
Cloaked, the Halloween art exhibition, is currently on display in Darden Lounge.
Jessica Scharf
Issue date: 11/4/05 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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It wouldn't be unfair to say that you will not find most Rollins students entranced by a piece of artwork while the smell of lunch wafts by their nose. Well, that's about to change. Cloaked, the Halloween art exhibition in the Darden Lounge will have your eyes glued to the walls no matter how vehemently you deny that you're "just not one of those artsy types."
Until I walked into the Darden Lounge Friday night, the Halloween spirit had not yet entered my blood. The first thing you see is a large table with (free, of course) food such as fruit, appetizers and candy. But all it took was one step before the artwork dragged me away. Masks, sculptures, 3-D paintings and an actual black booth fill the room as DJ Professor KillJoy spun tracks of chill electronics, IDM, triphop and synthpop music. The oddness of the music combined with a few interesting costumes were the first indication that this art exhibition was going to be different.
With titles such as "Doll with Skull" and "Wild Galactic Beast" the paintings were all but ordinary. Some even sent a chill down my spine, including "Organ Donor"- a monochromatic painting of a corpse on a surgical table with three hooks on either side of his chest, pulling the skin taught and exposing his organs. Random splashes of red graze the canvas. An example of the three dimensional works would be "Drowning" which is a painting of a skull with actual barbed wire across it.
The center of attention tended to be a black booth decorated with a gargoyle on it who forewarns, "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." Inside is a single chair and a set of headphones. You are instructed to sit down in the chair, put the head phones on, and look upward. Hanging from the ceiling are glow in the dark stars that glisten and twinkle as meditation music plays softly. "Curiously Listin" is its name and is the only piece made by a Rollins student. Junior Jennifer Jaffe describes her masterpiece as "an escape from the spook."
Despite having already looked at it, "Chains That Bind Us" would not let me leave its side. Although I had seen it mere minutes ago, as I left the Campus Center it still remained on my mind. This sculpture is by John Petrey who was responsible for creating a large portion of the works on display. It depicts a small child with wings is mummified with its hands bound by heavy rusted chains. As if that symbolism isn't dramatic enough, the child's face had a wax mask over the shrouds.
Until I walked into the Darden Lounge Friday night, the Halloween spirit had not yet entered my blood. The first thing you see is a large table with (free, of course) food such as fruit, appetizers and candy. But all it took was one step before the artwork dragged me away. Masks, sculptures, 3-D paintings and an actual black booth fill the room as DJ Professor KillJoy spun tracks of chill electronics, IDM, triphop and synthpop music. The oddness of the music combined with a few interesting costumes were the first indication that this art exhibition was going to be different.
With titles such as "Doll with Skull" and "Wild Galactic Beast" the paintings were all but ordinary. Some even sent a chill down my spine, including "Organ Donor"- a monochromatic painting of a corpse on a surgical table with three hooks on either side of his chest, pulling the skin taught and exposing his organs. Random splashes of red graze the canvas. An example of the three dimensional works would be "Drowning" which is a painting of a skull with actual barbed wire across it.
The center of attention tended to be a black booth decorated with a gargoyle on it who forewarns, "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." Inside is a single chair and a set of headphones. You are instructed to sit down in the chair, put the head phones on, and look upward. Hanging from the ceiling are glow in the dark stars that glisten and twinkle as meditation music plays softly. "Curiously Listin" is its name and is the only piece made by a Rollins student. Junior Jennifer Jaffe describes her masterpiece as "an escape from the spook."
Despite having already looked at it, "Chains That Bind Us" would not let me leave its side. Although I had seen it mere minutes ago, as I left the Campus Center it still remained on my mind. This sculpture is by John Petrey who was responsible for creating a large portion of the works on display. It depicts a small child with wings is mummified with its hands bound by heavy rusted chains. As if that symbolism isn't dramatic enough, the child's face had a wax mask over the shrouds.