B . F. A . 2 0 1 5 - 2 0 1 6 S E N I O R S H O W C A T A LO G
SPRING 2016
SHOW TITLE: WELCOME TO: CARNATION PINK EMPHASIS: DESIGN KATHRYN.B.ASHFORD@GMAIL.COM KATHRYNASHFORDSTUDIO.COM Carnation Pink exists. An act of recording significant choice and chance experience. The efforts consist of subscribing conscious and subconscious realities through drawing, painting, mark making, and collage. There is a heroine to this story. Princess Rosado Clavel. Welcome to: tennis skirts and cigarettes, Skulls or swords or hard candy, People on Sundays, Mighty morphin megazords/legos informing pixels After school girls, cool girls... (their heartbreak) and most certainly the spaceÂt ime continuum. Welcome to: Carnation Pink.
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Anxiety is a mental disorder I have lived with for the majority of my life in varying degrees. Whether overwhelmingly crippling or stagnantly lingering in the back of my mind, it has persisted. Anxiety lives internally, wreaking havoc on the internal thought processes, rarely to exist in the external realm. The thought life becomes cyclical, at times, creating an impassable wall fixated on the idea of “what if �.
SHOW TITLE: WHAT IF EMPHASIS: DESIGN NOAH.SCHRADER@ME.COM WWW.NOAHSCHRADER.COM
The way in which anxiety exists makes it difficult for those who do not struggle with it to understand the impact of it. Through the form of video and sound I will bring you into the internal struggle that exists on a daily basis as I walk through life with anxiety.
SHOW TITLE: WEEKEND WARRIORS EMPHASIS: DESIGN WWW.OLIVIAKINCAID.COM
These paintings represent a study in the cyclical nature of emotional turmoil. I am looking at the downfall of mental peace and the subsequent stages of rest and recovery. These periods of emotional, mental, and spiritual processing do not occur once in our lives, but again and again and again. This cycle is part of what makes us human: fallen, but with the possibility of resurrection and restoration.
My work involves a methodical and organized process, which creates variations using watercolor. These forms are constructed on three-inch squares that highlight their intricacies. By allowing the medium to dictate the outcome, the colors produce variation every time a new one is created. This repetitive act immerses the viewer in an intimate experience of gradient and pattern as they view each delicate form individually and as a whole.
SHOW TITLE: VARIANT EMPHASIS: DESIGN BRIANNABABCOCK1@GMAIL.COM
They all become a variant of each other, different in some way from others of the same kind.
My work is an investigative process through which I explore the physical and perceived boundaries of landscape. I have developed an understanding of my landscape that is not limited to a horizon line in the distance,but includes the immediate space in which I exist from both a micro and macro perspective.
SHOW TITLE: ROCKHOUNDER EMPHASIS: DESIGN JAMES.R.MCCAHON@GMAIL.COM BESTFRIENDJAMES.COM
I collect and organize found materials from my surroundings to highlight forms and textures that reference the traditional perspective of landscape.
SHOW TITLE: JEMIKA (JESSICA, MICHELLE, KATHERINE) EMPHASIS: DESIGN JG.ROSEMARY@GMAIL.COM My artwork is a reflective process inspired by the relationship I have with my two sisters. I create forms by braiding strands of our clothing together, representing the inseparable bond we share. Each braid is then dipped in wax or clay and embellished with materials which carry meaningful memories. These playful forms and familial groupings embody various characteristics of our relationship.
The “Driving Fast Car” is a reference to my father’s silver, 1967 Mustang convertible. Of course, as children, my sister and I didn’t have the language to call it a Mustang so we called it the “Driving Fast Car”; I suppose it’s fitting for a child to describe things rather than title them, to experience things rather than explain them. This body of work explores the longing for home and the grief of losing it. The photographs contain images of my recently divorced parents, haunted Washington landscapes, self-portraits and images of home taken through a telescope.
SHOW TITLE: DRIVING FAST CAR EMPHASIS: PHOTOGRAPHY CHRISRASMUSSENPHOTOGRAPHY@GMAIL.COM
Eventually my father sold the Mustang and bought a car with more seats. My sister and I grew up and moved away from home. But I still feel connected to the driving fast car, as it seems my life is passing by faster than ever before and I don’t know how to slow it down. I miss home but I don’t know where to find it.
SHOW TITLE: THE HOUSE THAT I GREW UP IN, OF WHICH I OFTEN DREAM EMPHASIS: DESIGN ALEXIS.C.AQUILINA@GMAIL.COM AQUILINASTUDIO@GMAIL.COM By dissecting and painting over a previous body of work, I am examining memories of grief or trauma in order to process them anew. As I layer and weave new and old elements together I focus on specific memories, imbuing the newly added material with related emotional associations. The responses and sensibilities of my past and present self integrate on the surface of each piece, reflecting the impermanence of memory and how it can change with each retrieval. Remembering is not always a clear or linear process and can often function to undermine, accentuate, and occasionally manufacture
new details of a memory. Sometimes these recollections and alterations are caustic, and sometimes they offer protection. This practice has not put my difficult memories to rest, but rather created space and provocation for new perspectives and old questions that still need answers.
SHOW TITLE: RATIONAL BUT NOT ANIMAL EMPHASIS: DESIGN WWW.RYANCOOK.NET
I am fascinated by objects that behave like humans, but are not human. The machines I create display qualities that are unique to the human experience, such as abstract thought, humor and compassion, but they express these qualities in a manner that is conflicted by perceptual cues. Using lights, motion and sound, my machines react to participants in order to assert an identity of their own, but in doing so they expose their flaws, revealing the complexity of human behavior. In creating these machines I hope to express the frustrations, thoughts and ideas that I have encountered while processing my own human experience.
The Island: the Giver. To fully recieve, Human must give unto The Island. As he has neglected The Place, whatever riches Human takes from the Island will be as chaff in the wind. The Island, just as The Great Power, is most pleased when devotees seek truth of her Being. For when such a sacred exchange is made, the tangible gift is imbined with a new awareness of a truth of actuality. Arevealing of the original order. A shedding of The Fear. Take this in rememberence.
SHOW TITLE: UNCHARTED TERRITORY EMPHASIS: DESIGN JESBYRDSTUDIO@GMAIL.COM
SHOW TITLE: EARTHLY SOLES EMPHASIS: DESIGN ROBYNKBARTA@GMAIL.COM
Ever since I was a small girl, I enjoyed being outdoors more than anything. I wanted to be outside climbing trees and rolling around in the mud. As I paraded around in my bare feet doing what I could, I quickly realized the connection you could feel to the earth through your feet. I could feel the earth absorbed through the soles of my feet. Clay is from the earth. It is created from the minerals and the plants that make up the elements of the soil. It is found in areas where streams and rivers once flowed. Working with clay gives you the ability to hold different forms in a delicate way. I use the clay and its transforming ability to give an illusion of the earthly qualities within each picture.
One time momma and sister saw Satan on top of a curtain staring back at them with big yellow eyes. But all I can see is death covered in blues and yellows.
SHOW TITLE: EULOGY EMPHASIS: DRAWING ARLENECORT5@GMAIL.COM
Hawai’i is my home, while to many others, my home is their paradise. I want viewers to see that a familiar place can be different depending on its geographical and demographical characteristics. This place can hold a separated set of experiences; one that is culture rich and full of stories.
SHOW TITLE: MAHALO COME AGAIN EMPHASIS: DESIGN HAYLEE_SOMA@YAHOO.COM
My work is a staging of carefully collected materials and objects from my home. More specifically, my art deals with how a corporate identity can conform to a culture’s needs and lifestyle. The exterior and interior of a convenience store give key to the objects in my display and give entire thought to design, typography, and composition. My work tributes to the thinking of culture, both from the past and current culture of Hawaii’s society. It embodies a feeling that reminds me of the people I grew up around, and a unique place that is widely recognized among an international identity, but dwells with a larger audience.
SHOW TITLE: WAY OF THE MIND EMPHASIS: DRAWING WWW.JACOBLUCCA.NET
My drawings follow an original character Sojourner through the multi-facetted landscape of his mind as he struggles to gain control over his thoughts and beliefs. He is divided at the core of his being; his soul wants to accomplish good, but he is enticed and tangled by selfish ambition. Sojourner begins to resolve this conflict in the central hub of his mind where he encounters a spiritual guide who aids him in his travels. Here there are many doors leading to one of six aspects of his divided mind. Each of these serves as a separate drawing, though portions of each of their compositions are present in the main, central work. All surrounding drawings speak back to the central piece. The places seen in the six accompanying works function in several overlapping capacities; they are depicted as physical spaces, each a unique character in its own right. They also embody the spiritual, emotional and cognitive forces at work in Sojourner’s mental struggle.
SHOW TITLE: FOREIGN EXCHANGE EMPHASIS: DESIGN EMAIL: GRACE.H.PAN@GMAIL.COM My work is a visual reflection of the coexisting cultures that make up my identity as an immigrant. I am moved by stories of those who have also experienced similar struggles in the process of being uprooted and dislocated, customizing the way of living according to the patterns of varying environments. This body of work narrates both the frustration and joy in being a multi-cultural individual, who only finds complete belonging in a place out of this world.
“Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called the living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.” — Genesis 2:19-20
SHOW TITLE: UNIDENTIFIED SPECIES EMPHASIS: DRAWING GABRIELVORIS@GMAIL.COM
One of the most outstanding attributes of God we witness in His creation is creativity. God imagined all the creatures on earth and then in His omnipotent power, called them into being. Our imaginations are a source of the creativity God has instilled within us. Using my imagination, I have created various and unique creatures with my finite power over pen and paper. I now ask you to display your creativity in identifying these “Unidentified Species.”
I live in a constant state of geographic tension, torn between the reality of living in suburbia and the peace and fulfillment I find in the wilderness. I live between these two worlds and cannot have one without the other. I use my drawings to capture glimpses of my most valued moments in the places that bring me solace. In an effort to represent the beauty found in these wild places, I could not help but also portray the minute details, often overlooked, but equally as stunning and beautiful.
SHOW TITLE: FOLLOWING CAIRN EMPHASIS: DESIGN SYDNEY.M.HALLMAN@GMAIL.COM
SHOW TITLE: BEAR WITH ONE ANOTHER EMPHASIS: SCULPTURE ELLEN.M.CAMBRUZZI@GMAIL.COM My work serves as a meditation on the intimate connections forged through exchanging charged personal narratives. This relational act becomes a conduit for enriching our understanding and appreciation of another person’s essence, while simultaneously revealing to us more of our own. In seeking interviews with significant people in my life I was able to empathetically engage with them in some of their most formational experiences. Using direct quotes from each person as a foundation, I have created sculptural responses to the stories they shared. The individual pieces are not meant to function anecdotally but rather as expressions of insight gained through listening to the difficult and often painful circumstances unique to each person. The materials present in the works reference the particularity of each story yet offer space for the broader contemplation of what it is like to bear with someone through the uncomfortable complexity of seeking to deeply know and care for them.
“One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever.” At 22-years old, I find myself still lingering in moments of my childhood and the emotional and mental impact that is left with me. I observe my 4-year old nephew, Jayden, in the same confined home and start to see the similarities of his growth with mine. I develop an interest in the change of his behavior as he grows to become the person he wants to be.
SHOW TITLE: JAYDEN EMPHASIS: PHOTOGRAPHY STELLARSIM@GMAIL.COM
The never-ending timeline contains photographs of everyday life as a remembrance of my past childhood and my nephew’s current childhood. I look back on these moments of what shaped his identity and look back to places that helped develop who he is today. My intention is not only to depict a boy’s day-to-day life but rather have people reflect on their own childhood and their own identity in life.
SHOW TITLE: UNTIL TREES SING EMPHASIS: PAINTING HANNAH.CATHRYN.BROWN @GMAIL.COM WWW.HANNAHBROWNSTUDIO.COM Studying trees and observing their unique characteristics helps me see majesty in the details of life. Through expectant looking, I become more aware of the distinct melody of each tree, reacting with empathy and delight towards what is around me. Paint and clay allow me to look and respond in complementary actions to the diverse colors and intricate textures of the trees. I paint outside, bringing the tree portrait inside to be contemplated. I sculpt and graft in prosthetic branches for trees with severed limbs, an indoor process returned outdoors, inviting wonder.
I am exploring the idea of the influence certain perspectives yield throughout specific moments in life. These experiences are then expressed in the form of colors, shapes, and textures. The strings in essence are lines that, when viewed from a distance, create a larger design. Fruition is the point at which a plan or project is realized, and it is in this moment where the parts begin to become a whole.
SHOW TITLE: FRUITION EMPHASIS: DESIGN LESLIECHUNGSTUDIO@GMAIL.COM
SHOW TITLE: DEATH OR REST EMPHASIS: INTERDISCIPLINARY SKORINSUN@GMAIL.COM Here lies the question of what the weathering of our lives is for. Some have tools to make their work easier, others only ingenuity to build their own solutions; some have love overflowing, some have emptiness. Still each life resolves in the same way: a long life filled with love and a life short and harsh are both lives ended. The violence of ended life—of catastrophe—rattles the living into enduring contention with the meaning of defeat and the meaning of reward. On the eighth day, the day after the end, there may lie death or rest. In memory of Carl B Sundberg, maker and teacher of many things.
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SHOW TITLE: LETHE EMPHASIS: PAINTING RACHEL.EMENAKER@GMAIL.COM
My art is composed of layers. Organic and geometric shapes and images are created using traditional Eastern and Western art practices. The batiked images, words and symbols throughout are obscured, bleached and covered, leaving a singular image made from remnants. My art is an exploration of the tension, conflict and violence often present when contrasting cultures, religions and traditions are asked to live together. Like the mythological river Lethe, my art engages differing cultures, religions, and aesthetics, tells stories, hides secrets, reveals and conceals, as it invites one to step in.
Being a human is a perpetual struggle between understanding who you are, and who you belong to. We strive to express our individuality in a group while surrounding ourselves with like-minded people. My work studies this dichotomy; how we express both our individuality and uniformity within a methodology. Each individual makes their unique mark, and an impression of the community emerges.
SHOW TITLE: HAMMER AND NAIL EMPHASIS: DESIGN JOHNMGRIFFITH92@GMAIL.COM
The wooden canvas is an opportunity for you to express yourself and contribute to the artwork. By simply taking a nail, hammer, and length of twine, and performing the ritual of hammering the nail, and stretching the twine from your mark to another, a network develops in complexity and beauty. It evolves unpredictably, documenting the marks and moods of individuals in a collective space.
SHOW TITLE: HEIRLOOMS EMPHASIS: JENISONART@GMAIL.COM I am fascinated by heirloom objects and the history they hold. The time that each item collects is a visceral relationship to its previous owners and the home it once occupied.By curating objects revolving around my late father, I have been able to make memories tactile once again. Relating these memories to heirlooms has allowed me to confirm a sense of identity in my family’s midwestern roots.
growing up, my family & i traveled the same road across the country every summer—from a small town the middle of indiana to a small town in the middle of arizona. i have stacks of old journals from these year, where i’ve collected photographs, receipts, & ticket stubs—ephemera from the journeys. as i revisit this road as an adult, it brings a certain longing, a search that makes travel feel less temporary & more like home.
SHOW TITLE: IS THIS REMEMBRANCE... EMPHASIS: PHOTOGRAPHY NATALIE.E.CRANE@GMAIL.COM
my work is a method of gathering facts about the road being traveled. bringing order to the work gives importance to the artifacts and the role they play in constructing memories. i collect photographs and other evidence from the road; i write down these memories so that I don’t forget.
SHOW TITLE: BAD LUCK FOR A LONG TIME EMPHASIS: SCULPTURE ALLISONWINTERS.STUDIO@GMAIL.COM There is an admirable beauty in the ability and contentment of some to find peace and comfort in the simple act of prayer or other expressions of faith. I have found that I lack this ability and have then adopted other means of finding much needed solace and security for myself. In the face of what I have perceived to be an enduring spell of bad luck, I have evolved and adapted— for my own self-preservation— in ways that to the outside observer may seem contrary to the belief system in which I was raised. Though I feel no conflicts myself, I can sense the disapproval of my community that these evolutions have placed on me as I choose to continue my pursuit. These pieces reflect my alternative methods of living. They are representations of what a hurting and questioning mind and soul find and cling to in unfortunate circumstances; they are tokens of where I have gone in order to find strength and peace.
SHOW TITLE: EXCUSE ME EMPHASIS: PHOTOGRAPHY RACHEL.E.MALEK@GMAIL.COM I seldom go through my day and think that the person who passes me on the street has a real family and friends, a real schedule, and must live with real mistakes. To confront such nonexistent relationships, I photograph strangers; those whom I am drawn to, and sometimes intimidated by. In doing this, I am able to look into their eyes, be part of their day, and get a sense of who they are; even through these brief interactions. By approaching them, I recognize them. By printing at a large scale, I am able to provide them presence. I excuse myself, and allow them voice. Through this process, I am able to reconcile my nonexistent relationships, and give theses people some of the thought and humanity they deserve.
The physical landscape of Southern California is composed of different qualities and elements navigating quickly between never-ending reconstruction to seemingly endless relaxation and leisure. California’s light is both obsessive and deceptive. Known for it’s iconic beauty and perfection, Southern California excels at maintaining a consistent facade year round. Southern California holds an aesthetic quality that is superficial and fake. Through the various niches and enviroments one becomes aware of the need to be identified as something or someone beautiful.
SHOW TITLE: BLEACH DRY EMPHASIS: DESIGN NATALIE.E.CRANE@GMAIL.COM
I have curated objects and forms that are both iconic and archetypal. Objects are decontextualized to generate a discussion regarding the authenticity of Southern California. The cosmetic nature of these objects dances between what is both good and bad, real and fake, imaginative and ordinary.
Dots become lines and lines become emotions. Lines structure the form of painting, and lines also have the power to evoke emotions and moods.
SHOW TITLE: IN YOU EMPHASIS: DRAWING/PAINTING L.CHOONGMAN@GMAIL.COMCHOONGMANLEE.COM
I create emotion with the movement of line. Lines themselves have the potential of being interesting. Rather than making representational image, I am interested in how people will respond emotionally to my work. Emotions are the reflection of past experience. And the explanation regarding my work can be answered by your own past. Every answer is in you.
SHOW TITLE: CONFESSION EMPHASIS: DESIGN HANNAHRUTHHUGHES@GMAIL.COM HANNAHRUTHHUGHES.COM Each piece represents a confession from an acquaintance that I sought out. We each shared a confession with each other. Their confession has been scrambled by alphabetization. The now illegible text creates a barrier between the person’s secret, and the viewer. The objects familiar forms created with soft fibers create a welcome for the person represented, as well as the viewer.
SHOW TITLE: NONMONOTONOUS EMPHASIS: SCULPTURE RACHELCRICHTON25@GMAIL.COM
Patterns form the world around us through either nature or human organization. The organic repeating formations of the natural world becomes a refreshing change when compared with the harsh and static fabrications that make up the world. This fascination of patterns and repetition constantly consumed me. My work consists of taking natural elements and minimally altering their form or composition and confining them into a grid formation which illuminates their details. The contrast between the irregular shape organisms and the grid creates a rhythm. To some, this rhythm becomes monotonous, but to me, it creates an overwhelming atmosphere that I never want to escape.
In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that distant galaxies were moving apart from one another, and that the universe is exponentially expanding. If matter is growing apart, how do we make sense of the field in which it grows into? How do we comprehend that overlooked space? This series of works present visual interpretations of different scientific theories of the universe’s development, as well as the macro and micro nature of matter.
SHOW TITLE: DARK EMPHASIS: DESIGN SARAHSTARCK@COMCAST.NET SARAHSTARCKDESIGNS.NET
The body of work consists of ink blobs and miniscule, unpredictable lines. I breathe BIC ink through the pen straws, which gives a specific consistency. Each controlled breath creates an uncontrolled design. The mysterious negative space, the unexplored and forgotten outer space, is left ready to be exhaled upon.
T H E B . F. A . PROGRAM
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree in Art is the professional undergraduate degree that is highly desired by serious students intent on pursuing careers or advanced degrees in the visual arts. The program is designed to give art students flexibility to choose from one of five emphases: design, painting, photography, sculpture, or interdisciplinary. Design integrates a fine arts perspective into a curriculum that emphasizes conceptual thinking and develops technical proficiency in a variety of areas including print-based graphic design, web design and motion graphics. Painting embraces traditional and non-traditional approaches to drawing and painting while engaging students in current discourses within the discipline. Photography focuses on integrating the skills of black and white darkroom techniques with contemporary digital color practices to produce conceptually driven, photo-based art. Sculpture equips students to think creatively while developing proficiency in a variety of three-dimensional fabrication techniques including additive and subtractive processes, modeling, carving, mold-making and casting. The Interdisciplinary emphasis allows students flexibility in developing a custom art curriculum that blends upperlevel studio courses from multiple disciplines.
The Biola University Department of Art creates an academic environment that thrives on the interrelationship of biblical Christianity and artistic practice. It offers students a professional visual arts program with a rigorous curriculum that reflects a strong liberal arts emphasis and a solid Christian worldview. The Biola art program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD).
THE ART D E PA R T M E N T
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The Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery presents a program of rotating contemporary art exhibitions on the campus of Biola University. Located in the greater Los Angeles area, the Green Art Gallery is well positioned to represent a vital Christian worldview within the critical dialogue of contemporary visual art and to produce engaging exhibitions that grapple with issues concerning the intersection of faith with art and culture. The Green Art Gallery also provides professional development opportunities for Biola art students through gallery exhibitions and internships. www.Biola.edu/ArtGallery
THE GREEN ART GALLERY
All artwork images provided by the artist; used by permission. Cover image/design by Melanie Kim. Spring 2016 B.F.A. (exhibition catalog). Copyright Š 2016 Biola University Art Department All rights reserved. Book design concept by Melanie Kim. Book layout by Melanie Kim and Chad Swanson. Published through Issuu.com Biola University Art Department 13800 Biola Ave., La Mirada, CA 90639 562.903.4807 • www.Biola.edu/Art