The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art at Brown University present Student Exhibition 2007, the 27th annual student exhibition. The opening reception will be held Friday, March 16, from 7 to 10 p.m.

The annual juried student exhibition is open to all Brown students. The exhibition includes works in a wide range of media, from painting, drawing and printmaking, to digital and video-based work. This year’s jurors are Magaly Ponce, a Chilean-born video and installation artist, and Munir D. Mohamed, a painter originally from Kumasi, Ghana.

Artists included in the exhibition are: Olutade Abidoye, Nora Blackall, Galen Broderick, Jessie Chaney, Simon Charlow, Jesse Cohn, Tryn Collins, Kriya Gishen, Oliver Daly, Noel Madison Fetting-Smith, Annie Fish, Lauren Fisher, Tihtina Zenebe Gebre, Sarah Goldstein, Lindsay Harrison, Melissa Henry, Sarah Hotchkiss, Shanay Jhaveri, Lily Kerrigan, Julie Kumar, Sarah Labrie, Gillian Lang, Geddes Levenson, David Lloyd, Yifan Luo, Zachary Miller, Rebecca Nelson, Tasha Ong, Pook Panyarachun, Miranda Elliott Rader, Emily Roberts, Talia Rozensher, Claire Russo, Max Schoening, Jessica Simmons, David Watson Sobel, Sung-A Jang, Lydia Stein, John Szymanski, Jessica Taylor, Meris Tombari, Mark Tumiski, Sushant Wagley, K. Adam White, and Sabine Zimmer.

Jurors               

Magaly Ponce studied graphic design at Universidad de Valparaíso in Valparaíso, Chile, and went on to receive a Creative Video Grant, awarded in Latin America by the Rockefeller, MacArthur, and Lampadia Foundations. She later received a Creative Video Grant awarded by Fundación Andes. Ponce earned an M.F.A. at Syracuse University while on a Fulbright Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited widely in her home country, as well as in Denmark, Korea, Turkey, and the United States. Ponce currently lives in Providence and teaches new Media at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts.

After receiving his B.F.A. from Ghanatta College of Art, Munir Mohammed began his career with a commercial art company, designing and painting billboards by hand. In 1979 he opened his own studio in Accra, painting various subjects from the local villages, towns, and cities. He received commissions to paint portraits of several West African heads of state including presidents and other prominent people. In 1981 he moved his studio to Freetown, Sierra Leone, and lived there for seven years. Mohammed came to the United States in 1988 and since then participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and also painted more than 20 community and school setting murals. In 1996, he co-founded the International Gallery for Heritage and Culture in Providence, where he has served as an artistic director. In 1999, Mohammed received his Master of Art Education degree from Rhode Island School of Design. Presently, he lives and maintains his painting studio in Providence.