Chapman Art seniors Ashley Aliprandi, Artem Barinov, Sarah Purlee, Allison Rask, and Kat Spangler bring to you the new exhibit Lust Crumbs, at Chapman University’s Guggenheim Gallery, Monday, April 7 – Friday, April 11 (opening reception will be on Monday, April 11 6-9 p.m.). These students have built relationships with and have been influenced by one another through hours of artistic critiques, academic dialogue, and daily conversations which have led up to their final undergraduate show. These influences can be seen through the lens of some overarching themes of analyzing the conscious and subconscious mind, human nature and habit, and knowledge and identity.

The title Lust Crumbs applies to the various works in abstract ways through the mediums of photography, installation, performance, video, and painting. Explored are ideas of the lust one has with oneself, the left over crumbs of conscious thought from subconscious programming, the lust of existence between the conscious and subconscious mind, the expansion of the crumbs of societal knowledge about the American food system, and the lust between artist and color, people and structure.

The gallery is set up in multiple sections displaying each individual artist’s work that they have been contemplating, creating, and editing, over the past twelve months. And when looked at from a broader perspective, a small glance can also be seen into the world the students have been saturated in for the past four years, the world of the art department.

The show invites students and visitors alike to look beyond the surface of their daily lives and into the more intricate workings of the mind and reality as a whole, to question what we accept as fact, real, seen, unseen, natural, and imagined.