“A Baker’s Dozen,” the Division of Visual Arts and New Media’s spring senior clearly show, opens at the Cathy and Jesse Marion Artwork Gallery on Tuesday, April 19.
On display screen by way of Could 10, the exhibition involves artwork by 13 graduating seniors: Hunter Bardin (Film and Video clip Arts), Mary Colligan (Graphic Design and style), Olivia Dursi (Graphic Style and design), Katy Fermin (Images), Angeline Ginsberg (Ceramics), Matthew Henze (Movie and Video Arts), Shannon Lynch (Drawing and Painting), Sean Marchant (Graphic Style and design), Owen McGuire (Images), Francesca Olivo (Ceramics), Sadie Friends (Animation and Illustration), Jessie Stahlman (Graphic Style) and Wilson Thorpe (Graphic Layout).
A reception is scheduled for Friday, April 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free of charge and open up to the community.
The visual design and style of Hunter Bardin’s brief film “Phantasmagoria” is comparable to that of paper puppetry and phantasmagoric theater in which horrific creatures were projected big behind actors on the stage. With this film, Bardin explores how stress and anxiety can manifest by itself in a person’s mind and how negative feelings creep up on us the extra we dwell on the long run.
Mary Colligan tackles the dilemma of wheelchair accessibility in her cafe branding campaign “Common Grounds Café.” She writes, “There have been a lot of situations in my existence exactly where I was pulled up the stairs in my wheelchair just to get into a restaurant. The available entrances to some restaurants are in the back again, which not only will make me experience like a next-class citizen, it is also awkward to navigate the crowded place to get to the front.”
Olivia Dursi’s collection of posters tells the story of a fictional city, Pompay, N.Y., which has fallen victim to a catastrophe next a unsuccessful audio competition, a single which led to their armed forces base slipping in on alone, leaving no survivors. The story is impressed by her hometown of Rome, N.Y.
In her photographic series “Doll Facial area,” Katy Fermin addresses adverse entire body impression which is a really serious difficulty that influences women’s self-esteem. Barbie is undergoing plastic surgical treatment on a every month foundation in the 15 pictures.
With interspecies ceramic sculptures of animals, Angeline Ginsberg signifies the intuition of a mom to care for a baby even if it is not her own. Ginsberg writes, “The baby animals are lying down peacefully, realizing that their mom is on higher warn, listening and ready to safeguard them at all charges. Although the animals could be raised by yet another species, by variables this kind of as contact and scent, baby animals, equivalent to individuals, realize who their mom is and have confidence in her to shield and nourish them.”
In his interactive movie installation titled “Production,” Matthew Henze enables gallery website visitors to clean up the setting. The projected online video is a forest littered with trash. As the viewers get started to place additional of the installation’s litter in a recycling bin, the video of garbage in the forest is steadily changed by a clean up flourishing forest.
Shannon Lynch’s painting collection “Affect” features nine diptychs about the journey of persons in her lifestyle. She focuses on their inspirations and how they developed and outlined their life from childhood to now.
Sean Marchant encapsulates his analysis on Fredonia’s Division of Visible Arts and New Media in his is primary publication “TYPO Magazine.” He writes, “I want men and women to share how they sense about their activities with VANM so that we may well develop as a section. I want learners and faculty to experience like this is a dwelling and not just a area to work. This is a single of the longest jogging tasks I have experienced the honor of functioning on. My hope is that this will be a lot more than a solitary-situation magazine.”
Through prolonged photographic exposures and significant structure prints, Owen McGuire documents the pure occurrences of phenomena at night this kind of as lightning, cloud protection, snow, rain, moon phases and shooting stars.
Francesca Olivo explores how people link with each and every other and nature with her handmade coffee desk and ceramic tea set. She writes, “Our connections with other people today are very important. We are also inherently linked to the earth. Bouquets aid us truly feel linked to our earth. We trim them from the earth and bring them within to quickly bask in their attractiveness.”
“Walter and Willow,” a children’s reserve composed and illustrated by Sadie Peers, options a tale about the link involving a grandfather and granddaughter. The story addresses the relevance of family members, community, and tiny “golden” moments.
Making use of the “Princess of Pentacles” and “Queen of Swords” playing cards, Jessie Stahlman investigates the visible language of tarot playing cards and their id and iconography as a deck. Posters and paper crafted head pieces signify the two personas.
Wilson Thorpe’s set up “SWAP” is a retail outlet to struggle textile squander. Posters promote the retail store and pamphlets define this critical problem. A rack of mended (recycled) clothing demonstrates the solution. The typical American throws absent close to 82 kilos of garments each and every yr and globally about a 100 million tons of textile squander is produced every calendar year.
“A Baker’s Dozen” is supported by the Department of Visible Arts and New Media, Fredonia School Foundation’s Cathy and Jesse Marion Endowment Fund, and the Mates of Rockefeller Arts Centre.
Gallery hrs are: Tuesday as a result of Thursday noon to 4 p.m., Friday and Saturday noon to 6 p.m., Sunday noon to 4 p.m. and by appointment. The gallery is situated on the primary stage of Rockefeller Arts Centre.
For much more info or a group tour of the exhibition, get in touch with gallery director Barbara Räcker at (716) 673-4897 or via e-mail.
