As the academic year comes to an end, the Synergy Park North art gallery is hosting six exhibitions featuring student work, with the official opening and reception occurring on May 8.
The majority of the gallery is dedicated to the spring 2026 Juried Exhibition which features 30 student pieces spanning mediums. Works were selected through a screening process led by juror James Talambas — founder of New Media Contemporary, an artist-led art gallery featuring music installations, sculptures, photography, videography and other mixed media art.
The juried installations include paintings, photographs, sculptures and a variety of experimental videos and short films made by students taking a class or pursuing a degree within the Bass School.
Alongside the juried exhibition, the gallery holds four capstone projects from Zainab Aziz, Mitch Born, Noah Ledat and Vânia Martellini Walters. Projects use different materials and mediums to create a variety of visual languages.
Ledat’s steel and sandstone sculptures examine how language is weaponized in politics, religion and the everyday. The figures were given an honorable mention by juror Katherine Delony, director of the Green Family Art Foundation.
“EnhancedInterrogationTechniques,” Ledat’s largest work in the exhibition, is a chained figure sculpture bent to its knees. The piece references former President George W. Bush and his authorization of CIA-operated prisons for individuals suspected of terrorist activity.
Contrastingly, Walters’ photomontages invite the viewer into the dreamlike, imaginative worlds of her two young sons as she translates their vision through photo layering and archival pigment print.
Born’s handwoven photographs collapse time and geography by threading together images of his late father and the Cambodian genocide, turning a tangible process and piece of work into inherited memory.
In a similar cultural vein, Aziz reinterprets typically Italian tarot archetypes through a South Asian lens, centering feminine identity, adornment and self possession in a dynamic watercolor.
Finally, Lyon’s Ph.D. exhibition provides an immersive experience into a potential post-apocalyptic America, complete with brochures, travel guides, posters and mixed media installations. In a harsh landscape, her visions of a wholly transformed human life offer a glance into how one might navigate a new life.
Containing a mosaic of perspectives and messages, the SP/N gallery’s final exhibitions of the academic year are available for students, families and the community to view until May 23.
