Shot from "Animal Farm"; the board of trustees
“Welcome…to the most important group show in all of history, ever!” a black-robed twenty-something shouted last Sunday night from a wooden platform, stacked with hay bales. The first floor of the Brucennial's pop-up gallery had been transformed into a pop-up musical theater. Packed with the type of people you'd expect to see at an art school reunion, and helped by the free beer and an artists-only hanging of work, it felt like a homecoming; what the Brucennial loses in curation or individual messages, it gains as a big, familial show of pride. The set was lit by the aluminum spot lamps common to art school studios (during scene changes, these would be rapidly switched on and off to induce a goofy strobe effect).
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