in spite of fear

BFA REVIEWPART I of II

IN SPITEOF FEARAnna Arnold 2Kat Bunke 4Alan De la Cruz 6Hannah Goldberg 8Rebecca Gongora 10Mackenzy Price 12Kaitlin Hackner 14Lucy Hodkiewicz 16Noah Huber 18Anna Jacob 20Cassidy Johnson 22Shannon Jones 24Smiley Gatmouth 26Grace Meurer 28Anna (Max) Moser 30Eric Newble 32Karen Singer 34Laura Williams 36Xinmeng Yu 38Melanie Xiong 40

2 - IN SPITE OF FEAR

ANNA ARNOLD

Untitled

Conte crayon on canvas with embroidery

Does biology make women or does the society?

My work is an on going exploration of womanhood. Trying

to understand the difference between the biology that

makes up a woman and the contemporary beauty rituals

many women practice in order to be seen as feminine

and sexually attractive.


KAT BUNKE

Well-Rounded Childhood

Found toys, found clothing and bedding, yarn, found objects

My art focuses on making inner personal conflict visible

and part of current political and social discussions. This

piece starts conversations about sexism, feminism,

heteronormativity, and mental health as they plague the

lives of young children, girls in particular, in the most

pervasive of ways. My art looks to be a platform for topics

about which it can be too difficult to speak out loud,

presenting a voice where there was once silence.


ALAN DE LA CRUZ

Untitled

Ceramic installation with correlating

colored pencil on paper illustration

“Yet saddest of all fates, surely, is to have lost that sense

of the holiness of life altogether; that we commit the

blasphemy of bringing thousands of lives to a cruel and

terrifying death or of making those lives a living death –

and feel nothing.”

- Reverend Dr. John Austin Baker, commenting

on the cruelty of modern animal agriculture


HANNAH GOLDBERG

An Arrangement

Oil and wax on canvas

Two divergent impulses guide my work; the impulse to

work meticulously, even obsessively, and the impulse work

in a more expressive, intuitive manner. These impulses

represent, to me, the contradiction of human nature;

we simultaneously desire order, and disorder. My work

investigates the boundaries of these impulses, as well as

where they converge.


REBECCA GONGORA

Postpartum

Medicine Cabinet, Baby Bottles

As a new mother the everyday seems to become an

overwhelming thought and that the identity of yourself

is now completely intertwined and possibly overtaken by

another person, a responsibility, a role. Everyday a

reflection of a before and now after.


MACKENZY PRICE

Kin 2,

Oil on paper

Family is what drives and motivates me to follow my

passions. Despite not having a concrete theme throughout

my work, I can easily say that family will always be the

starting point for my paintings. I hope to embody the

laughter I have shared in the paint I apply to a surface.


KAITLIN HACKNER

Caffeinated Synergy

Brewed coffee, coffee grounds, coffee creamer, gold paint

Although my artistic practice is constantly changing

due to practicing with different mediums or finding new

inspiration, my current practice is focused on human’s

emotional attachment to the natural world. I have learned

that we are deeply connected to nature both physically

and emotionally. In my most recent work I portrayed

mountainous landscapes and focused on humans desire

to immerse themselves in environments that have been

unchanged by society.


LUCY HODKIEWICZ

The Letter Project

Notebook

My recent work utilizes community participation and

explores communication and relationships. Relationships

often fade, and I hope to make work that encourages

people to reach out to those they don’t speak to anymore.


NOAH HUBER

Succulence

cumin seeds, Inkjet print, jimmies, lubricant, oil, plastic,

polyurethane on masonite


ANNA JACOB

White Lake

Watercolor and letterpress

In the final few months of school my family was often on

my mind and I was heavily influenced by the death of my

grandmother. These paintings depict memories of the

time I spent with her.


CASSIDY JOHNSON

Itch

Cherry wood

Change has no beginning and no end. My artistic process

of mindfully shedding, peeling, and growing is a continuous

exploration of learning and identifying the self.


SHANNON JONES

Rocking Swing

Pine, paint

An arborist father constantly adding stumps and firewood

to the woodpile the height of our garage. Swaying back

and forth on our backyard swing set-- a new layer of stain

covers the slivers slowly seeking their way to the surface.

Driving across the country, venturing to places that have

been deemed picturesque, beautiful, the epitome of the

romantic sublime… silently feeling like I am still in my

dad’s backyard.


SMILEY GAT MOUTH

Dying

Multimedia (Ink on Water, Bars on Bars, Poetry, Flowers)

Smiley Gatmouth is a contemporary urban philosopher.

He records his inner most revelations in writing and frames

his writing in audio, visual and other cerebral media that

may constitute art. His work is witty, intellectually rigorous

and entirely too personal.


GRACE MEURER

Purl Type Specimen I

Digital print

Purl is a typeface that functions both as a knitting pattern

and a legible typeface. Purl includes an ornamental

weight, a display weight, six text weights, and a set of

dingbats, which are decorative characters. The dingbats

can be used to create an unlimited number of patterns.


MAX (ANNA) MOSER

I don’t want to remember

Stabilo drawing on acetate

My undergraduate work has largely focused on mental

experiences, or how the mind affects the physical world.

Mental realities are just as vivid to me as physical ones.

It is a broad interest that spans from childhood narratives

and mental illness to the line between a person and their

body.


ERIC D. NEWBLE JR.

names; i can remember.

Mixed Medium Performance Painting

Eric Newble is alive. Eric works to capture moments and

feeling, in order to put words and sound to the things we

don’t hear, or only think. His work is meant to begin a

conversation with the audience, but not about him, about

themselves.


KAREN SINGER

Seasonal Disorder

Wire, beads, copper tubing.

Life’s experiences need to be shared through a physical

object that influence the viewer. Art can be seen, touched,

photographed, documented and shared with others. I have

found no better way to connect to the human condition

than with a visual display of the human thought process.


LAURA WILLIAMS

Balloons

Ceramic, underglaze

Laura Williams will receive her BFA in Ceramics and

Drawing in December of 2016. The majority of her

undergraduate work deals in issues of social awareness,

gender, and sustainability. Williams hopes to go on to

teach art in whatever community she inhabits.


XINMENG YU

Seethe

Oil on canvas

Emotions, movements and drama are three important

elements that inspire me. I love to invest them through

observing human body. Working on larger canvas, applying

new color palettes, invest different degree of abstraction

and exploring more complex drama is my current goal.


MELANIE XIONG

Museum Mishaps #1, Museum Mishaps #2

Mixed Media

You don’t have to be a genius to understand cartoons. It

can be as simple as reading a comic strip or watching a

fully animated series. You can take it as it is or read between

the lines, but either way it’s accessible to just about everyone.

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