Northwestern Art Review is hosting its annual student art gallery in the basement of Kresge Centennial Hall from Wednesday to Saturday.
The gallery features around 15 student artworks by all college grade levels from 2025 completed in various mediums including oil on canvas, charcoal and video works.
NAR is a student organization on campus that promotes art, creative events and art history.
NAR co-president and Weinberg senior Erin Poe said students submit their artwork weeks prior and NAR members select them to be exhibited.
“We showcase the best of Northwestern’s artists,” Poe said. “We have very talented artists at this school, and we’re very lucky to have them here.”
Poe said NAR works very closely with NU’s art history department to promote art history discourse at the undergraduate level.
Co-president and Communication senior Kyra Resnicow said NAR produces a journal at the end of the year in addition to its annual art gallery.
“We like to critique and discuss student art as well as broader art trends,” Resnicow said.
A few artists stopped by the gallery to view their works on display.
Weinberg senior Mason Bryant submitted a series of three charcoal drawings that he completed as a final project for an Introduction to Drawing class.
He said the drawings are a linear series and a visual representation of a song he wrote about having difficulty expressing important things.
“There’s an approach where you can outline the negative space of the thing you’re trying to express, and then you can create an outline of the thing you’re trying to say,” Bryant said.
Weinberg senior Lulu Goldman visited the Kresge basement to see her work hung on the walls. Her name accompanied several of the paintings selected for the exhibition.
Goldman said she submitted a couple of pieces to the show, including still lifes and landscapes that she completed in an Advanced Topics and Paintings: The Immediacy of Painting class.
This is one of the first times Goldman’s work has been on display and she said it feels really cool to have them exhibited. She said the class has been a bit of a growth experiment for her because students have to start and finish a painting in three hours.
“They’re not necessarily my top works…I just kind of submitted the ones I liked the best,” Goldman said. “I think just by chance, and this is probably why I like them the most, the pieces I submitted are more emotive than a lot of my other pieces.”
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