80 Washington Square East, NYU

MFA Thesis I

Thesis I

March 29 – April 9, 2011

80WSE

David J. Merritt
Carlos Reyes
Ben Schumacher
Jo-Ey Tang 

David J. Merritt
Installation view featuring two sculptures in the exhibition. Windows on the right side of the image, pour light into the room. The structure is made of wood, and white paper mache.
Installation view of objects seated on the window sill lit up from the light pouring in from the window panes. Several abstract clay and found-object works are scattered around the sill.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring an abstract sculpture in the center of the gallery space surrounded by white walls, sitting on top of a wooden floor. The sculpture itself consists of a wooden structure on wheels, wrapped with blue, orange, red, and yellow bands of string or tape.
Installation image of a work in the exhibition that features a white branch protruding from a silver, metal disc. The white turns into a deep fuschia pink color and is molded into several pinched, clay branch like arms.
Installation image of a light-up frame on propped up against the white gallery wall. The frame features an image and is backlit of black and white molded clay.
Carlos Reyes

Installation view of the exhibition featuring a dimly lit room with a white sheet hanging in the corner, lit up by a white spotlight. The sheet has abstract lines of black and a smears of dark grays. On the right side of the room, plastic tubes sit with small red poles on red bases stand within the tubes.
Ben Schumacher

Image of a work in the exhibition featuring several hues of light purple. On the bottom of the work in black lettering, it says, "PANTONE BY LETRASET, COLOR/PAPER/GRADUATED/UNCOATED." The rest of the words are blurry and illegible from the camera angle.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring a purple print hanging on a white wall on the left side wall within the image. On the floor of the gallery, a platform on wheels holds several slabs of what seems to be wood or stone, stacked on top of one another.
Installation view of a work on the floor of the gallery space. The work seems to be a photograph featuring a pale pinkish, purple background, almost grey with two pinkish-red objects laying in the center. The objects are small rectangular objects, illegible from the angle of the camera and the artwork in general.
Jo-Ey Tang 
Installation image of a work sitting on the window sill of the exhibition. Several cube-shaped pieces of black foam sit atop a rectangle of cardboard.
Installation view of two spaces in the exhibition. On one side of a white wall, there are six framed works of art. They consist of different combinations of black and white dots against a black or white background. On the right side of the wall, there are three more of these images.
Installation view of an artwork in the exhibition featuring a piece of white paper spanning the length of the wall. Horizontally along the center of the white paper is a thick black line.