Hole in the Wall, Fall 2011 Bachelor of Fine Art Students' Exhibition

HOLE IN THE WALL FIU Bachelor of Fine Arts Fall 2011

Diego Spindola Arrieta Carolina Candelaria Benjamin Castro Wen-Ju Chien Jacqueline Conos GuadaLupe Figueras Deseree Gonzalez Eric Gonzalez Oliver Perez Diego Rodriguez Jennifer Rodriguez Baez Lauren Webb-Harris Victoria Yunta

Hole In The Wall FIU Bachelor of Fine Arts Fall 2011 December 7, 2011 - January 8, 2012 Target Wednesday After Hours: December 7, 2011 / 6-9pm

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum At Florida International University 10975 SW 17th Street Miami, FL 33199 Museum Hours: Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-5pm Sunday: 12pm-5pm Monday: Closed T: (305) 348-2890 F: (305) 348-2762 artinfo@fiu.edu www.thefrost.fiu.edu

Group picture and portraits by Fabiola Jimeno Catalog designed

by Wen-Ju Chien

Carol Damian Director and Chief Curator Student exhibitions represent some of The Frost Art Museum’s most important events. We are always proud to showcase the work of our talented students, and to hopefully launch them into successful careers as artists. The exhibitions are always full of surprises and the students take every advantage of the space and the opportunity to express their creativity in a genuine museum environment. This class of 2011 and their exhibition: “Hole in the Wall,” are meant to offer a glimpse into the hidden places that motivated their processes and the means of exploitation and exploration that are part of this new world of technology, internet sources, and Google-visions. It is a unique way of reflecting upon the many changes that confront all artists today, and of addressing the future. We wish them well in their endeavors as they tackle the future.

Pip Brant BFA THesis II Professor Hole in the Wall, n. 1. a hide -out where outlaws go to count their booty or huddle to plan their next caper. 2. a secret oculus. 3. residence of termites.

Creative inhabitants of these spaces may perhaps plan a visual heist, allowing the viewer to peer into their personal utopia or anarchical systems. Their tools learn toward the global and exploit both the free distribution sources on the Internet and willing participants from their own familiar histories.

I seek to create an amalgamation of the Three Kingdoms Chinese epic with more immediate personal recollections to form images of constructed narratives from a compromise of fiction and reality. As a result, the painting becomes a study of heritage, history, and mythology.

Diego Spindola Arrieta darrietaspindola@gmail.com www.d-spindola-arrieta.tumblr.com

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 2011 Oil, acrylic, and aerosol on canvas 50" x 150" (triptych)

Carolina Candelaria

Sixty-Three Fourty-One / 108" x 240" / CafĂŠ and gouache on fabric / 2011

caro.candelaria@gmail.com

The mapping of a genealogy is sustained by a translucent, woven material, which supports a drawn record of my family members, accentuating the bond of kinship.

I hoard my ex lovers’ clothing. Some of them are tattered and abused and some are unworn. With the tools of a tailor, I rebuild them into armor to fulfill my fantasies that answer to my pasts and imagined future and brace me as a memento of an extinct relationship.

Benjamin Castro bcast006@fiu.edu

Dimensions variable / Leather / 2011

Wen-Ju Chien Years In Two Months / 38" x 29" / Ink Pen on paper / 2011

wchie001@fiu.edu www.wenart.com

The child-like world, born out of Boschian compositions and horror vacui, is a notation of real people and events in my life. Each creature’s persona and their surroundings are based on people and situations I have encountered. My characters bear certain physical and personal traits that suggest their character and actions that create stories.

The captured space that hovers ghost-like just above the well-traveled family dishes is found in these hardened shrouds. These negatives capture the past or mark my future.

Jacqueline Conos jcono001@fiu.edu (786) 715-1246

Dinnerware / Dimensions variable / Fusible web fabric with mixed media / 2011

Guadalupe Figueras Parraga

still from the video Peripheries / 2011

guada_23@hotmail.com

This series of videos make use of architecture, urbanism, mapping, street naming, landscape, and picture quality as narrative agents. Presented as short road-movies, their language is that of the digital world. Their subject matter is mostly the impact of global economy on external, public spaces, captured by appropriating consecutive images from Google Street View and arbitrarily re-arranging them, forming chimerical successions.

Like in Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities”, each place the videos show can be understood trough all that is found along the roads, symbols of contemporary life. A better look and all becomes recognizable

Deseree Gonzalez Lolcats the muse of a blog dedicated to funny cat pictures and I interject these charming or crass Lolcats into the extravagant world of the Baroque.

These felines are situated in Ruben-esque imagery to provide my own feminine narrative on these re-imagined allegories.

robotdesi@gmail.com www.lerobotdesi.blogspot.com (786) 553-4797

The walk-in / 58� x 64� / Acrylic on canvas / 2011

Eric Gonzalez Action Portraits / 8”x 5”x 2” (Each) / Mixed Media / 2011

edgsw@hotmail.com (305) 297-6831

3 ¾ inches is the perfect size for action figures. Rows upon rows of them inhabit the walls of my room. I can fit them in my pocket and taxi them through daily adventures.

For a long time it was only the celebrities, the popular icons of culture, the famous, that were immortalized in these tiny plastic bodies. Upon turning the people whom I live and interact with into action figures, I have changed the rules.

It has elevated myself and those around me to that divine status one achieves as an action figure.

Oliver Perez The union of different forms of line and multiple layers give birth to a disarray of imagery controlled by the negative space engulfing it. The pen strokes, ink patterns and washes seduce the viewer to examine each line closely, as every one of them is as significant as the next, conveying hidden forms within the orderly and disorderly worlds.

OPEREZ086@YAHOO.COM (305) 992-4218

Tattoo You Put on Me / 26" x 40" / Pen & ink wash on paper / 2011

Diego Rodriguez

WASH Single-channel video colour Sound 4min 30sec

drodvan@gmail.com www.dr-van.com

The disturbing yet humorous uncertainty between my timeless subconscious and the reality of time will be processed, projected, publicized.

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming which the wicked man does in actual life” Sigmund Freud WASH carries a 1950’s esthetic; from its hues and music to its subliminal brainwashing messages. Conceptually the video talks about this new generation of communism, concealed dictators and how their reign is a complete game of violence, game for control.

I use ritual to strip objects of their former function, and in the process, assemble visual poems of transcendence and memory that shoulder experience.

Special thank you to Panda Kitchen and Bath for their generous support

Jennifer Rodriguez Baez

Colorful coils tumble over a white shroud while a dark shadow transforms whole crayons into shreds. When the event is finished, it begins again, like a dream without an end.

jrbaez21@gmail.com www.jrbaez.com

Crayons Video Installation, 2011 HD video 49 minutes looped 1000 shredded crayons Basket, Fabric, LED Lights Fabric Screen Dimensions Variable

Lauren Webb-Harris

Steam Road, 2011 Archival Pigment Print 20"x30"

Keetha94@Gmail.com www.LaurenWebbHarris.com

I am drawn to the unsettling variety of noises and the industrial stench. My love of being isolated in the land of desolate train yards is what has me on this unbounded journey.The hunt keeps me climbing over, going under, risking my freedom, my health. This exploration has taken me from the automobile factories of Eastern Germany, to the agricultural fields of Central California to document the ever-changing Railroad.

By bringing strangers together in a communal setting, I seek to identify that pivotal moment during social interaction when people’s behaviors and dialogue step beyond the polite, superficial arena into intimate and personal territory.

Special thank you to Michelle Bernstein, Sra. Martinez restaurant and Michy’s restaurant for their sponsorship and collaboration on this project.

Victoria Yunta veyunta@gmail.com

Social Experiment: Dining Out Video documentation of social interaction between strangers dining at Sra. Martinez restaurant and Michy’s restaurant in Miami during the month of November 2011 Two 27” iMac Computers Two HD Headphones Dimensions Variable

Board of Trustees Albert Maury: Chairman Michael M. Adler: Vice Chair Sukrit Agrawal Cesar L. Alvarez Jose J. Armas Jorge L. Arrizurieta Thomas Breslin Joseph L. Caruncho Marcelo Claure Mayi de la Vega Gerald C. Grant, Jr. Patrick O'Keefe Claudia Puig

Art & Art History Faculty Frost Art Museum Jacek J. Kolasinski William Burke Tori Arpad-Cotta Pip Brant R.F. Buckley Kathy Dambach Carol Damian Eduardo del Valle Mirta Gomez Daniel Guernsey Clive King William Maguire Juan A. MartĂ­nez Alpesh Patel Mette Tommerup MFA Gretchen Schnarnagl Constantino Manuel Torres Barbara Watts

University Administration

Dr. Carol Damian: Director Julio Alvarez: Security Manager Alison Burrus: Miami-Dade Public School Museum Educator Kelly Brady-Rumble: Grants Specialist Jessica Delgado: Director of Communications Ana Estrada: Research Assistant Annette B. Fromm: Museum Studies Coordinator Ximena Gallegos: Membership Coordinator Alex Garcia: Digital Archivist Elisabeth Gonzalez: Administrative Assistant Albert Hernandez: Exhibition and Sculpture Park Manager Michael Hughes: Director of Development Debbye Kirschtel-Taylor: Curator of Collections / Registrar Jessica Lettsome: Visitor Services and Events Assistant Miriam Machado: Volunteer and Docent Coordinator Mary Alice Manella: Budget and Finance Manager Mckeeva Mark: IT Specialist Raymond Mathews: New Media Specialist Amy Pollack: Special Projects Gabriella Portela: Communications Assistant Linda Powers: Curator of Education Klaudio Rodriquez: Assistant Curator Jessica Ruiz de Castilla: Museum Assistant Maray Santin: Visitor Services Assistant Luis Tabares: Security Guard Andy Vasquez: Preparator Ragan Williams: Security Guard Sherry Zambrano: Assistant Registrar

Mark B. Rosenberg: President Douglas Wartzok: Provost, Executive Vice President, & Chief Operating Officer Pete Garcia: Executive Director of Sports & Entertainment Andres G. Gil: Vice President of Research Sandra B. Gonzalez-Levy: Senior Vice President of External Relations Divina Grossman: Vice President for Engagement Jaffus Hardrick: Vice President of Human Resources Kenneth A. Jessell: Senior Vice President of Administration & Chief Financial Officer Rosa L. Jones: Vice President of Student Affairs Howard R. Lipman: Senior Vice President, University Advancement; President & CEO, FIU Foundation Inc. Javier I. Marques: Chief of Staff to the President M. Kristina Raattama: General Counsel John A. Rock, MD: Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs & Founding Dean, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine Stephen A. Sauls: Vice President of Governmental Relations Robert Grillo: Vice President of Information Technology & Chief Information Officer

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