An eclectic yet rather cohesive exhibition with an extraordinary amount of talent is currently on display at the Zoller Gallery of the Visual Arts Building.

The exhibition, which runs through Wednesday, includes the work of 47 undergraduate art students chosen out of 80 that had submitted their pieces.

Carlo McCormick, senior editor of Paper Magazine and museum curator, was the juror for the show.

McCormick selected the pieces and then chose one artist to receive the Kara D. Berggren Award for $500, followed by five runners-up to each receive $100 certificate awards.

"It's never easy, but this gig was more fun than most, because the hard part was a wealth ... of quality," McCormick said in an e-mail message.

The winners of certificates and Kara D. Berggren awards are to be announced at 6 tonight during the reception for the show in the Zoller Gallery.

"You can tell in an instant whether a faculty is forcing a particular agenda on their students, and with that thankfully absent here, I just took my cues from the great range of expressions evident," McCormick said.

Works ranged from performance pieces and video projections to vivid paintings and complex metal structures.

"Mine is a performance piece in which I blow out yolk from a dozen eggs into cast hands," Emily Bowser (senior-art) said.

The space in which Bowser performs her piece, Potential, is surrounded by birdseed and there are two recordings running that recite Allen Ginsberg poems.