An art exhibit replete with diversity
The guests in the Sert Gallery huddled over a wooden shipping crate, champagne flutes perched on the edge, piecing together a jigsaw puzzle of an Amazonian panorama. Across the room, visitors laughed as they frantically picked miniature paper stars off the ground, and wondered aloud if they might take them as souvenirs. The guests crowded into the Carpenter Center on April 27 for the opening of “Attached,” this year’s exhibition of theses by graduating seniors in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). Their works, which are characterized by their diversity of materials and methods, will be on display through May 24. The impulse to touch is nearly overwhelming in Daniel Yavuzkurt’s installation, which recasts one corner of the gallery as a 19th-century naturalist’s cabin. The walls of the gallery are stained a warm brown, the bottom like tree trunks and the top like vines, reminding Yavuzkurt of his summer in...