Allouche Gallery Presents ‘Operation Varsity Blues’

 

 

 

B. Robert Moore: Degrees of Separation: Admissions of Education; 60W x 40H ; Arches paper, Acrylic, charcoal, soft pastel, oil pigment stick, c. 2021; $26,000. Image courtesy of the gallery.

Allouche Gallery opens its doors to “Operation Varsity Blues,” a group exhibition exploring the structural inequities of the American higher education system through the lens of the recent high-profile college admissions scandal. The exhibition features new, commissioned works by seven artists—Lindsay AdamsDebra CartwrightKevin Claiborne, Malaika Temba, Lindsey Brittain CollinsAlteronce GumbyLanise HowardJeffrey MerisRaushan RuckerKhari TurnerTelvin Wallace, and Esteban Whiteside—who are responding to the 2019 college admissions scandal of the same name wherein affluent families conspired to influence undergraduate admissions decisions at several top-tier American colleges and universities. “Operation Varsity Blues” is organized by author, art historian, and independent curator Charles Moore.

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