Silkscreen print selected for juried exhibition

Kas Gaviola ’27 (painting option - studio arts BFA) created a silkscreen print that was selected for the prestigious Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition at Memorial Art Gallery. 

The 69th edition of the region’s longest-running juried exhibition, which takes place on a biennial basis, is a premier showcase of emerging and established artistic talent. It is scheduled to be on view June 28-Oct. 5, 2025.

Gaviola’s selected piece, “Vertigo,” was made in Professor Eileen Bushnell’s Introduction to Printmaking course. Gaviola felt naming the print after the prompt given for the project was fitting. 

“When I was given this prompt, my mind went to scale — how one can feel so massively expansive and connected with everything in one moment, and the next so small in comparison to the vastness of human experience,” Gaviola said. “The way I look at it, there is a constant push and pull between these shrinking and growing feelings, like lungs expanding and compressing. Each moment of life one may find themselves at a different point of this cycle, faced with the reminder of both their smallness and their power. Sometimes all at once. 

“That feeling is what I tried to capture in this print while maintaining an illustrative and somewhat childlike marksmanship, because despite the feelings of vertigo that can be caused by the human experience, it is most important to enjoy our time here and not take things too seriously.”