The woman stands spattered with mud, her naked back turned to the old car rusting in the weeds across the hallway.

"These are the ones that some people might find offensive, but I hope not," Jill Eberhart (sophomore-Russian) said about the two black-and- white photographs featuring the nude and muddy model. "I'm glad the University is showing these pieces. I'm glad they're not stifling creativity. "

These two photographs by Melissa Janssen -- titled "Repentance" and "Contrition" -- and the untitled silver print by Robert Bebee that features the rusting car are only a few of the works that are on display in the Chambers Gallery to comprise the School of Visual Arts Art Student League Undergraduate Juried Exhibition.

Craig Zabel, assistant professor of art history, and David Brown, instructor in the School of Visual Arts, were the jurors who had the job of selecting the works to be exhibited.

"We took about 50 percent of the works that were entered," Zabel said. "We based our decisions on quality, originality, and all those other things upon which you base your judgement of a work of art. We also wanted to provide a balanced presentation."

Undergraduate students submitted works in the areas of painting, photography, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, medallics, printmaking, and installation art for the exhibition.

"What I find most interesting are some of the pieces with containers and boxes," Craig Anczelowitz (graduate-art) said. He described his desire to remove, examine, and replace the wooden heart contained in a sculpture titled "Enclosed Vitality," by Alethea Schroeck.

"I wish they weren't behind glass, because they require more personal interaction. One should be able to hold them, and experience them at one's own pace," Anczelowitz said as he pointed to the plates of a book-like sculpture by Robert Checchi. "Each person can juxtapose the different elements in a manner which pleases them."

Checchi's work, titled "I Want One of my Own," remains enclosed to protect it against vandalism and theft, but "I'm changing the position so it lies flat and you can see at least one page of it," Checchi said. "I would like people to be able to thumb through the book, because the story is really important."

"It's a short story," he said. "It's a dialogue between two guys who steal a girl, and they're driving away in a van, to sell the girl to someone else. On each page, I have a painting, and a photograph of a missing child from 1983 to 1987 -- children who are still missing."

One complaint Checchi had about the exhibit "is that they didn't advertise for it early enough. A lot of people didn't hear about the show in time to get anything ready for submission." He pointed out, however, his admiration for many of the exhibited works.

The exhibit can be viewed in the Chambers Gallery through December 1, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.