CROSSLEY GALLERY

EXHIBITION DATES: March 1st – March 7th, 2025

RECEPTION: Thursday, March 6th, 2025, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

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Ringling College is pleased to announce the opening at the Crossley Gallery on Thursday March 6th, 2025 for the Senior Exhibition “Saints on Tape”

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In an era where everything is recorded, replayed, and reinterpreted, “Saints on Tape” examines the intersection of surveillance, devotion, and spectacle. This exhibition interrogates the ways bodies—sacred, monstrous, and transgressive—are watched, exalted, and consumed.

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Through figurative painting, experimental media, and archival distortion, Valeria Guerra Garcia, Blue Dunsworth, and Zack Crosby dissect the mechanisms of faith and exposure. Valeria’s paintings of saints and sacrifice evoke the violence of devotion, where suffering is both a path to divinity and a spectacle to be witnessed. Blue’s work with lost media and cryptic cult-like imagery resurrects forgotten transmissions, questioning what is erased, censored, or sanctified by digital relics. Zack’s paintings of monsters and queer identity push against imposed narratives of sin and transformation, reclaiming the monstrous as holy.

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Tapes loop. Bodies bleed. Eyes watch. “Saints on Tape” blurs the line between relic and record, between martyrdom and media, asking: What is sacred when nothing is private? Who is sanctified when everything is seen?