Harvey Students Exhibit at KMA

Six students from the Visual Arts Department at The Harvey School will display their work at the upcoming Young Artists exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art.

The exhibit, which features the work of local high school seniors, is celebrating its 25th year. It will run from March 9 to 16.

The students involved in the exhibition include Abigail Hunt, who is submitting two glass mosaic pieces; and digital photography students Matt Bernard, Yulia Josiger, Robert Reeder, and Joanna Smith.

Bernard will submit a pop art-style photograph that shows how abstraction can turn an image into something unexpected, says Harvey’s photography teacher, Angelika Rinnhofer. Bernard, who photographed a bag of animal crackers and edited it in the photo editing program, Photoshop, to distort the brand name and make it his own piece of art, was inspired by the art of Andy Warhol and also by several young graffiti artists.

Josiger is submitting two photographs inspired by the work of 20th century artists Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, while Reeder’s highly minimalist photograph captures a moment in time by focusing on a piece of asphalt, thereby capturing an image of visual interest, explains Rinnhofer. Smith will show three photographs that deal with the randomness of snapshots, composed in the artist’s subconscious.

“The show has always been one of highlights of the senior year at Harvey,” says Carol Bonicelli, chair of the school’s Visual Arts Department. Harvey has been participating in the exhibition for the past 25 years. The school offers a variety of arts-related courses to high school students, including foundation courses, ceramics and silk painting classes, computer art, and a course on printmaking techniques. A portfolio program is also offered to students in the 11th grade, which helps them gain entry to art school. All of the courses are taught in Harvey’s high-tech art center.