Exhibition
Location
Olive Tjaden Gallery
Tjaden Hall
M–F, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Contact
Department of Art
(607) 255-6730
Reception
Wednesday, December 10
5–7 p.m.
Abstract
Chaos Song brings together six B.F.A. thesis students in a shared field of tension, between order and fracture, pattern and interruption, the clean line and a blurred image. Refuting chaos and harmony as opposites, but as forces that lean into one another, contaminate one another, and occasionally trade places. Here, disorder is generative rather than incidental, a springboard for new language.
The works in the show move through disruption in different registers: material rupture, glitch and repetition, bodies in space, symbols that refuse a single meaning. Many pieces begin in a structure the artists inherited — academic discipline, cultural lineage, technical method — and then destabilize it. There are gestures toward entropy, archive, myth, bodies in dance, landscapes in perpetual change, and abstract staircases. Rather than smoothing chaos into coherence, Chaos Song interrogates harmony as a destabilizing force, and allows us to question if chaos is as disruptive as it seems.
Exhibiting artists (all B.F.A. ’26):
- Chloe Han
- Tiffany Quen
- Isabella Fang
- Jacob Tannen
- Sofie Hayon
- Hamza Ayad
