Innovation SAS

Watercolor and marker on paper by Emily Franchett

IN NOVA TION FINAL STUDENT EXHIBIT Spring 2017

Florence University of the Arts SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

SAS | School of Art and Sciences

IN NOVA TION FINAL STUDENT EXHIBIT Spring 2017

Florence University of the Arts SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS

SAS | School of Art and Sciences

FINAL STUDENT EXHIBIT Spring 2017 Florence University of the Arts SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS SAS | School of Art and Sciences

MAY 3 | MAY 30 2017 GANZO Via dei Macci, 85/r Firenze Opening at 6:00 pm Wednesday May 3, 2017

Florence University of the Arts students are proud to announce the opening of the exhibition “INNOVATION” in which original student work will be presented.

This exhibition will be held at GANZO, Via Dei Macci 85/r, at 6pm on May 3rd, 2017.

The exhibition will display the work of students currently enrolled in the following courses: Words, Painting,and Emotions: The Mind Map of Creativity; Intermediate Painting; Intermediate Drawing; and Advanced Drawing.

Professors pre-selected artwork from each class that would fit into the theme of innovation.

There will be 30 works on display.

While most of the work was done on paper, the use of different materials is evident in the variety of works, which include: pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolor, acrylic, and oil paints.

Innovation is important in Florentine culture as the city has been the home of many of master artists and the beginning of the Renaissance.

Innovation of the city has been proven effective as Florence has used its old architecture style to convert ancient buildings into functional buildings needed in today’s world.

By transforming something that already exists, something new is produced that still remains true to its origins.

This exhibit was curated by the FUA Experiential Learning course Gallery Exhibition and Curating

MORGAN PENNINGS ANASTASIA KOSHIK | EMILY LAZAURUS | SAMARA RYNECKI | GREGORY SLADE | JAMIE NIED | DANIELLE SITZMAN

Coordinated by Prof. Gianni Rossiello

Florence University of the Arts Spring 2017

ADVANCED DRAWING

NICOLETTA SALOMON

INNOVATION How does your creative mind work?

“How does your creative mind work?” is the question we tried to answer throughout the semester.

My students of Words, Painting and Emotions course and Advanced Drawing course undertook the challenge of innovating their perspective toward art, living the demanding experience of visualizing their mental creative processes on the go.

This was not about leaving marks or traces of their processes of doing art, as much as it was about turning their artist’s eye inward and observing their minds at work while catching their dynamics on paper.

How do we individually process visual information, auditory data, concepts, personal memories, and momentary mind lapses while on a creative path?

Through a structured series of in-class exercises and being exposed, among others, to the art of the contemporary German artist Friedericke Oeser, students undertook a complex struggle against their own biases about art. They were forced to find a point of intersection between themselves as both subjects and objects of their own observation in the very core of their existence: their own creative mind.

Nicoletta Salomon

STUDENT EXHIBIT SPRING 2017

ADVANCED DRAWING

HANNA SEEMANN Carlsbad, California, USA Point Loma Nazarene University Figurative Abstract 37.5cm x 20cm (5 of my sketchbook pieces) 70cm x 50cm (my series of 3 large) Graphite pencils on paper This semester has been an exploration of drawing beyond my academic history. With no experience in abstracts, I could not quickly move from point A to point B. These pieces trace my journey in the dark room of abstracts as I pick up shapes and choose to pull them into clarifying light, or leave them in ambiguous shadow.

Making these choices is where all of the terror appears, the terror of discovery. Are these shapes strong? Is this the right decision? My ambiguous exploration of the figure gives me few clear answers, and this translates into my pieces. Yet over the ambiguous forms I lay my own lines of clarity--my way of making sense.

SAS School of Art and Sciences WORDS, PAINTING, AND EMOTIONS: THE MIND MAP OF CREATIVITY

E M I LY F R A N C H E T T Lenexa, Kansas, USA University of Central Missouri Feeling Sound 70 X 50 cm (series of 11) Watercolor and marker I listen to music. I am in touch with how music can move through my body and mind. Using my paint brush as an extension of my arm, I am able to capture my exact mind movements. Outlining the shapes the colors create makes a map of the connections between sounds, rhythms, mind, hands and tools.

STUDENT EXHIBIT SPRING 2017

WORDS, PAINTING, AND EMOTIONS: THE MIND MAP OF CREATIVITY

CLE ARY CHIZMAR Sacramento, California, USA UC Berkeley The secret of creativity 34.5 x 50 cm (series of 6) Watercolor and pen Creativity is not something you have in my opinion. It is something that comes from an open mind and ability to let go. It is not easy, but if I can free myself from tensions and timidity, then and only then can I begin to spark a moment that leads me on a path toward creativity.

I N T E R M E D I AT E D R A W I N G

MOHSEN VEYSI

“A line is a dot that went for a walk…

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”

Paul Klee

A line begins to live with the birth of a dot after it starts to walk on a support. History starts when the human walks on the earth, the signs of its existence create a line connecting the feet traces of the first man to the Internet line and wireless technology.

Drawing as one of the most ancient visual arts mediums links different periods of human history from the Palaeolithic cave marks to the graffiti marks on the contemporary city walls.

Florence, the cradle of Renaissance, is one of the favourite destinations for artists and art lovers.

Here past and present live in a peaceful harmony with each other.

In the selected works, students of the Intermediate Drawing and the Florence Sketchbook courses tried to express their personal conception of “innovation” through the medium of drawing.

Mohsen Veysi

STUDENT EXHIBIT SPRING 2017

INTERMEDIATE DRAWING

K AT H R Y N H O G A N Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA College of William & Mary Duality 50 x 70 cm Charcoal and Paint Florence is a Renaissance city, a Roman city, a modern city and so much more. This is what I try to demonstrate in my work. Using the backdrop of classical and Roman statues I peeled away pieces of them to show my friends underneath. This same feeling is mirrored in how at first glance, the history of Florence can be its most vocal aspect, while now I realize that is only the most basic way of understanding this place. With a mix of classical and modern styles, I hope to demonstrate this duality, and to innovate a new style which represents how Florence is a unique breed of city I had never experienced before.

SAS School of Art and Sciences INTERMEDIATE DRAWING

JENNA CIANCIOLO Watertown, Connecticut, USA Southern Connecticut State University Blossom 35 x 50 cm Oil pastel on paper I wanted to take the portrait and innovate it into a personal challenge and exploration of people in Florence. I approached strangers from around the city and asked to take their photograph for this project. Additionally, I was inspired to explore the impact of color on a subject. With this, I took the portraits and transformed them using bright and limited color palettes. I wanted to see how changing the colors of the portraits would aect the overall mood of each piece. Through my study I found that the colors I used added a playful feel to the original photos. If I were to do this project again, I would widen my range to see if I could pull dierent ranges of emotion.

I N T E R M E D I AT E PA I N T I N G

ANDI NUFER

Beginning in the art academy curricula of the Renaissance, artists were anatomists in a world in which innovation meant returning to the ancient Greek practice of dissection to understand the body.

Contemplation of anatomy and other elements of the natural world could inspire awe, wonder and gratitude toward the creator in a religious re-visitation or innovation on the pagan empirical traditions and their view that the esh embodied the soul.

Drawing on this rich academic tradition of innovation through revisiting and revising tradition, students in the Intermediate Painting course have been anatomists and artists, making numerous studies from the human ďŹ gure and the live model. In the current works, students progressed to learn directly from the painted self portraits of both Renaissance and Modern masters, continuing the rich tradition of innovation through return and response.

The results are dissections of compositions of the masterworks, or of the colors, compositions, and paint quality of the originals into which their own likeness is inserted in place of the master's.

Andi Nufer

STUDENT EXHIBIT SPRING 2017

INTERMEDIATE PAINTING

C H R I S T I N E F I T Z PAT R I C K Scranton, Pennsylvania , USA San Joseph's University Detail Panting based on Rembrant 17 x 20 cm Oil on paper

SAS School of Art and Sciences INTERMEDIATE PAINTING

A L E X I A VA S S I L I A D I S Austin, Texas , USA University (N/A) Untitled 33 x 24 cm Oil on paper

Acknowledgements Ringraziamenti

FINAL STUDENT EXHIBIT Spring 2017 Florence University of the Arts SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS SAS | School of Art and Sciences

MAY 3 | MAY 30 2017 GANZO Via dei Macci, 85/r Firenze Opening at 6:00 pm Wednesday May 3, 2017

EXHIBIT INSTALLATION MORGAN PENNINGS Special Project: Experiential Learning in Gallery Curating

ANASTASIA KOSHIK EMILY LAZAURUS SAMARA RYNECKI GREGORY SLADE Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Students

JAMIE NIED DANIELLE SITZMAN Gallery Exhibition and Curating Students

GIOVANNI ROSSIELLO Professor, Gallery Exhibition and Curating

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ANDI NUFER Professor, Intermediate Painting

NICOLETTA SALOMON Professor, Advanced Drawing and Words Paintings and Emotions: The Mind Map of Creativity

MOHSEN VEYSI Professor, Intermediate Drawing Printed on May 2017

by FUA Florence University of the Arts

Florence University of the Arts Spring 2017

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