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Second National BFA/BA Juried Exhibition

March 24th - April 4th 2008
Reception: Friday, March 28th, 2008 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Event: Second National BFA/BA Show
Description: An Exhibition of Works.
Produced By: National BFA/BA Students.

The University of South Florida School of Art and Art History presents USF's Second National BFA/BA Juried Exhibition, March 24- April 4, USF Tampa campus at the William & Nancy Oliver Gallery and at the Centre Gallery in the Marshall Center .

The Second National BFA/BA Juried Exhibition is sponsored and curated by MFA Org., a student organization at USF. The organization sent out a national call to any undergraduate BFA/BA student interested in participating.
The BFA/BA Juried Exhibition is unique for the Tampa Bay area; it benefits art and art history students at USF and across the nation.

USF's MFA Org. brings together student work from over 40 universities, from which 35 works were selected to compete under the respected criticism of guest juror and Guggenheim fellow Kalup Linzy. Linzy will select three of four winners, which will be announced at an award ceremony on March 28. MFA Org. students will select the fourth award recipient.

"The First National BFA/BA Juried Exhibition gives students the rare opportunity to be critiqued by Guggenheim fellow Kalup Linzy," said Wally Wilson director of the School of Art and Art History. "Guest artists like Linzy enhance the School of Art and Art History's quality of education and provide students with additional perspective into the art world."

Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist currently living and working in Brooklyn . Born in Stuckey , Florida , Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Recently, he was named a Guggenheim fellow for 2007-2008. Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. Linzy also performs on stage using many of the same characters. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America , and Artforum.