While the UW is renowned for its medical research and law school, this display of work from first-year students in its MFA program proves theres talent elsewhere on campus. Introducing features a wide range of mediapainting, sculpture, video, photography, and more. The gallery entrance is adorned by the elaborately fermenting mead of Christopher McElroys Cultural Equation. Bubbling through his multi-chambered glasswork airlock, its surface rises as high as the five-gallon container. The hauntingly crisp photography of Neal Fryett is another standout, offering a dusky self portrait and the emotional Hope Place No. 2 and No. 5, saturated in cyans and magentas. All 10 artists represented here may be students, but their work is anything but juvenile. NICK FELDMAN
Wednesdays-Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. Starts: Jan. 6. Continues through Feb. 13, 2010
