AER-Closing Reception, Jan.14th 2011- Featuring the work of Fine Art Seniors: Alexandra Plemmons, Whitley Floyd & Shellie Hoak

Alexandra Plemmons:
The paintings that i create are interpretations of enviornments that I have experienced while traveling the world.  My work consists of breaking down different types of terrain into color, form, line, perception and space.  I see our world as purely these elements.  Each painting represents a particular landscape that I have experienced.  I layer ink, acrylic, and polyacrylic to create depth in these diverse worlds.

Whitley Floyd:
My imagination pulls me into a culmination of these memories of my past with what I am experiencing presently.  I channel this simultaneous experience of my past and present state into theatrical installations.  My work is an attempt to invite those around me into my extravagant world of bizarre beauty.

Shellie Hoak:
My work revolves around the eco-culture of a Florida native.  I use printmaking to express the natural details of wetlands that may have been overlooked, and discuss issues of their destruction with sculpture.  My respect for Florida wetlands spawns from the nostalgic experiences of my life, and is represented by the craft and aesthetic sensibilities in the work.  With the sales of my artwork, I hope to contribute to wetland restoration projects, help care for my home, and preserve these experiences for others.

NUGENT, SCUDDER, PHILLIPS: Compulsory Thesis Exhibition

Jen Nugent

Kris Phillips

Jeffrey Scudder                                     

Opening Reception: Friday January 21, 5-8pm

Jen Nugent

My most recent work utilizes drawings, video, and installation to investigate my own ideas about memory, communication, and information.

Jeffrey Scudder            

In this exhibition I will be executing a three movement, performance-based study of binary form. These movements will be performed at 6:30, 7:00, and 7:30 respectively.  Also on exhibit will be my thesis project, a work of image-making software that I call the PRBAT (Polygon Replicating Bitmap Authoring Tool). Products of proprietary image-making software are often simulacra of traditional media, but the PRBAT produces images which are inherently digital. The audience will be able to view a large library of images I have made with the software and also use the program themselves.

Kris Phillips

My work involves the personal, the obscure and the appropriated. These images are altered and transformed through a provisional style. Painting exists in the immediacy of the act. Through a provisional process I am commentating on a perceived laziness. The simplicity of one line and the absence of another can create an image powerful as poetry.   My work is influenced by the short attention span that is created from mass images, media and technology. With each painting I am willing to fail. 

J/A/S OBSESSION-Featuring the work created by Senior Fine Artists: Sandra Kurzban, Arun Balmick and Justine Delman

 

 

Sandra Kurzban
I always hoped the world would come to an end in my lifetime, preferably while I was still young. As a child I watched in reluctance as the adults around me lived their complicated and dull day-to-day lives until they finally retired or expired. Being exposed to all sorts of cheesy horror and over-the-top disaster films as I was growing up, I could only fathom this world changing so drastically at its end. I am still intrigued by the possibilities and even more intrigued by the effects they presented. Life would suddenly become all the more precious, dangers would become all the more obvious, and people would unite to face a common threat, despite their race or creed, or die alone and leave a world in turmoil behind. Albeit dark and tragic, an apocalyptic world is a romantic one. All the man-made obstacles we once had to overcome in life in the form of bills, paperwork, progress, and moneymaking would no longer exist. Life would suddenly become simple or it would simply end.

I chose printmaking to be the medium of my choice because I feel it allows me to create these apocalyptic images most effectively. Printmaking involves imagining an image first and putting the colors down, layer by layer, and I only know I am finished when the picture is clear and it makes sense. It is not far from how my imagination functions—creating a world in pieces that will eventually fit themselves together cohesively. I have always been a problem solver at heart, and nothing satisfies that in me as well as this media.

 Arun Balmick
"I like drawing, plain and simple. It’s become a regular thing for me, changing from hobby to routine. Putting a few pens in my pocket and carrying around a sketchbook or a folded up piece of paper has become a habit. On one hand, it’s largely to keep myself entertained whether I’m in class or out somewhere. On the other, it’s to keep pushing my skills. This is what makes observation so important to me; it’s the middle ground between practice and technique, documentation and storytelling. I also like to draw on my experiences and observations, mixing them with my thoughts to make a cartoon highlighting the issue rather than directly deal with it. I use drawing like a filter to help me tell stories, express ideas or even get a few laughs at my own expense."

 Jusine Delman
My opinion is my work and my opinion is what I think of when I see Japanese culture and fashion.  I have been interested in Japanese culture since I was very young and my work has always been based around it. I produce my work from many types of materials and almost all of them are wearable or sculptural.  Since my opinion is not just on the traditional culture but on the many different fashion statements, I feel that both are expressed well in wearable art or sculpture.  As Japan is a place advancing with technology it comes to a point where it crosses over to the traditional culture and to the fashion as well, which is what I display in my current work.

Primordial Celebration From the Underground

Rachel Robbins

Rachel Robbins experiments with sound by making connections between the body and appropriated, as well as handmade, electronic instruments.  She connects the devices into a system in order to create an interwoven audio and visual space.  The audience is encouraged to touch and manipulate the sound producing devices.

Treavor Rennick            

"Stupid in a good way, my absurd rambles and elaborate fibs have become a system of thinking and interpreting ideas into drawings."

 Collaboration between Treavor Rennick and Max Moore 

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 Rachel Robbins interactive Sound Installation 

Rachel and Treavor- Artist Talk