Adversity
Over the past two years, four of our very own student artists have been hard at work to put together an exhibition that is very special. This group of students can be understood through the Exhibition titled Adversity. Most of their two-year experience and connection to the Arts has been through a computer screen; whether they were as far away as the Korean Peninsula or within kilometers of the school, they were part of an isolated high school experience that only this generation will fully understand. Adversity does not merely present a story about the pandemic; it explores a narrative affected by distance and delivered partially through the lens of a webcam. Four student artists, four themes, and an underlying thread of connection woven into the paths of their unique lives and experiences:
Myungchan Kim explores the theme of Family and Relationships through his photography, sketches and small sculptures inspired the adversity of distance and the feelings of division and separation that encompass it. His exhibition leads the viewer through a very personal journey, from India to South Korea and then back again. The audience is invited to step into a fragile world, laid out across each of his pieces, and appreciate his artistic perspective and reaction to life.
Tanishq Thorwat dives into his theme, Emotion: Frustration by tackling his challenge to overcome injury through expressive paintings, digital works, drawings and sculptures. Tanishq’s work lays bare the scars left behind by the adversity of his injury through color, figurative representation, pure abstraction, and non-objective pieces that draw the audience from this exhibition space and take them everywhere from behind a school desk to the examination table in a surgical exam room.
Muhammad’s theme is Who We Are, and he explores it through his ideas of family and the self in a collection widely focused on two-dimensional drawing skills—including self-portrait, enriched with elements of his identity and the adversity of self exploration—that he balances delicately through the introduction of pattern and movement. The eyes in each portrait allow the audience to be pulled in, providing an intimate sense of Muhammad’s own experience, with every work drawing attention to the person behind the expression.
Devika celebrates her family and her culture under the theme of Identification: Nature through her diverse collection of prints, photographs, and drawings in charcoal, and pen-and-ink and even traditional folk art inspired by the Warli Tribe. Her time spent on the family farm with relatives is distilled into a collection that reveals the heart of her adaptation and growth, and the creative resilience with which she faced the adversityof her distanced learning experience.
Myungchan Kim explores the theme of Family and Relationships through his photography, sketches and small sculptures inspired the adversity of distance and the feelings of division and separation that encompass it. His exhibition leads the viewer through a very personal journey, from India to South Korea and then back again. The audience is invited to step into a fragile world, laid out across each of his pieces, and appreciate his artistic perspective and reaction to life.
Tanishq Thorwat dives into his theme, Emotion: Frustration by tackling his challenge to overcome injury through expressive paintings, digital works, drawings and sculptures. Tanishq’s work lays bare the scars left behind by the adversity of his injury through color, figurative representation, pure abstraction, and non-objective pieces that draw the audience from this exhibition space and take them everywhere from behind a school desk to the examination table in a surgical exam room.
Muhammad’s theme is Who We Are, and he explores it through his ideas of family and the self in a collection widely focused on two-dimensional drawing skills—including self-portrait, enriched with elements of his identity and the adversity of self exploration—that he balances delicately through the introduction of pattern and movement. The eyes in each portrait allow the audience to be pulled in, providing an intimate sense of Muhammad’s own experience, with every work drawing attention to the person behind the expression.
Devika celebrates her family and her culture under the theme of Identification: Nature through her diverse collection of prints, photographs, and drawings in charcoal, and pen-and-ink and even traditional folk art inspired by the Warli Tribe. Her time spent on the family farm with relatives is distilled into a collection that reveals the heart of her adaptation and growth, and the creative resilience with which she faced the adversityof her distanced learning experience.