The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s annual Undergraduate Exhibition—or the BFA Show, as it is often termed—is a maze-like, often overwhelming conglomeration of highlights carefully self-selected from each student’s developing oeuvre. Even if you missed the opening night’s swamp-like heat and Obama-obsessed media blitz, the exhibition, on view for a two week run at SAIC’s Gallery 2 space, contained hundreds of works, and a number of similarities emerged from amid the two floors packed with art work. Corresponding with the art world’s perpetual interest in identity politics throughout the past several decades—which has been addressed with either nods of agreement or eye rolls of derision—a notable quantity of selections dealt with the transfer of personal issues to the public sphere.