Sasha Heichenko
Carrie King’s art students’ work on display in the "Art in the Dark" exhibit.
For the first time in the Mt. Eden Gallery of Arts’ (MEGA) history, Mt. Eden students’ artworks were displayed in an unlit room. The exhibition, Art in the Dark, featured a section of glow-in-the dark projects from March 20 to 26 for this year’s MEGA Spring Show.
Due to the MEGA’s usual space being under construction, Mt. Eden art teachers turned to putting on a gallery in Mt. Eden Photography teacher David Gurley’s dark room.
“The biggest challenge is using the area as a classroom as well as using it as a gallery,” said Gurley. “It’s a lot of fun getting a chance to play with stuff in black lights.”
The eye-popping art pieces that shined under UV lights were mainly created by students in Mt. Eden art teacher Carrie King’s class.
In terms of specific techniques used in making glow-in-the-dark art, Mt. Eden junior Charley Weinstein said they utilized POSCAs, neon paint markers.
“Whenever there would be too much paint that would come out of the pen,” said Weinstein, “I would just flick it onto the page so it looked like paint and it looked pretty cool.”
Although the show mainly focused on the glowy aspect of the dark room, about half of the show displayed traditional 2D art. Despite many challenges, this year’s MEGA gallery had an incredible showcase of various mediums of art.