Art by degrees
Is there life after Harvard? One sort of answer comes today (Feb. 3) when three artists, all graduates of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) program, revisit their alma mater for a discussion of lessons learned and art done beyond college. The panel is part of “Object Lessons,” an exhibit of work by the artists Liz Glynn ’03 of Los Angeles; Meredith James ’04 of New York City; and Xiaowei Wang ’08, now a landscape architecture student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The show, which is wry and quirky, runs through Feb. 20 at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Among the mixed media, video, and installation work is a short 2009 video by Glynn, the title of which is a kind of anthem for artists: “No Resistance Is Futile.” Six milling figures, recorded from above, struggle to control a tall bundle of lumber tied at the middle. Their resistance...