Newest Art Exhibit Features Jessica Tyler's Work

2017 Dec 5

Jessica Tyler's artwork is featured in one of SUNY Oneonta's newest art exhibits. Tyler, of Hartsdale, NY, is studying Computer Art at the college.

The exhibit, called "[e]scape" is located in the college's Project Space Gallery and explores the contrast in city and country lifestyles and the concept of vacationing in one place or the other as an "escape." It features work by Tyler and two other students.

"[e]scape" opened Nov. 29 with a reception at the Project Space Gallery and will run through Dec. 19. The show consists of a combination of silver-gelatin photographs and digital photographs ranging in size from 21 inches by 18 inches to 36 inches by 64 inches.

In their combined artist statement, the students explained how their work explores the contrast between living in the city or country and visiting the city or country for a vacation.

City dwellers often find summer homes in Oneonta, they explained, while Oneonta natives find themselves taking trips to explore the big city. Each reality is someone else's vacation.

"Sometimes we forget what else is out there," the students wrote. "No matter which landscape you live in, whether it be the Catskill Mountains or one of the Five Boroughs of New York, the other always feels like an escape."

"As the three of us prepare to graduate, we want to use this series as a means of exploring the contrasts in the lifestyles we've experienced and appreciating the good and bad of each one," the statement continues. "Even when things seem gray in the environment you're living in, there is always a burst of color that will follow. It's up to us to find our escapes."