2025-26 Studio Art Senior Comps Exhibition: Interwoven Opening Reception

Join us for the opening reception of the 2025-26 Studio Art Senior Comps Exhibition: Interwoven.

Interwoven threads the tensions between abstraction and legibility, presence and absence, permanence and transformation. Through varied material and conceptual approaches, this group exhibition contests static assumptions about the nature of being. By weaving introspective reflection with broader cultural contexts, viewers are invited to consider their own position within these layered networks. Interwoven opens space for new ways to understand ourselves and, in turn, how we shape and are shaped by the environments we inhabit.

Senior “comps,” or comprehensives, reflect Oxy’s educational philosophy of learning deeply and independently. Comps are the senior-year theses, field research projects, art exhibits, presentations or creative works required by academic majors at Oxy to demonstrate mastery of the subject. Each discipline defines its expectations differently, but they all challenge students to expand and excel intellectually, and place the capstone on their educational experience.

Studio Art majors at Occidental College develop a command of their field and hone their ability to place their work into larger art historical, social, and conceptual frameworks. Projects may include, but are not limited to, the production of a new body of work and/or scholarly research.

Exhibiting Artists: 
Liv Peterson

Lucy Roberts

Peyton Resto

Schuyler Simon-Thomas

Lucas Donovan

Zandra Sweeney

Olivia Johnson

Nicole Anderson