photographer and design student
This painting’s composition is based on one of the last scenes in the 2016 movie “Moonlight”. I created my own reference image by taking a photo of two of my friends posed the same way as the characters in the movie scene, then sketched and painted them on my canvas. This painting is the first…
When this project was first introduced, I was a little apprehensive. It brought to mind something like a collage, and most of the time, I really just want to paint in my painting class. I gave it a chance, though, and pretty quickly I came up with the idea of making a mobile. I think…
I started this project hoping to create a more complex self portrait than the one I did in Intro to Painting. I went ahead and made a composite image of three recent self portraits; I wanted to create a sort of haunting image of the conflicting ideas I have about my own identity. The final…
This project was LOUD when it came to exposing my patterns and interests as an artist. On the very first day of class, I made what I call a mind map of words that describe my art. I looked to my photography for clues about what these words should be, since the largest body of…
February 2021
Vik Muniz is well acquainted with the truth behind the line, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, the eventual co-founder of the De Stijl movement, was intrigued by abstraction and what he believed was its ability to depict the underlying nature of reality. He coined the term “Neo-Plasticism” to describe his particular style of artistic exploration; the title refers not to what we now recognize as plastic forms,…
Jenny Holzer is a neo-conceptualist whose work focuses on the delivery words in short, simple phrases in public spaces. Lady Pink is a graffiti artist and muralist whose work is rebellious and self-expressive. In 1983, the artists combined their two mediums on one canvas to form the piece “I AM NOT FREE BECAUSE I CAN…
Hannah Höch wasn’t afraid to throw shade. Actually, she thrived on it: as a critically-acclaimed pioneer of the photo montage (or collage, if you’d rather) and the sole female member of the post-World War I Berlin Dada group, Höch made a name for herself by creating striking and humorous social critiques. Her work explores the…
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds is a Cheyenne artist who works to raise awareness of the struggles of Native American people at the hands of the United States government.
