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Square & Round

2011 MCAD International Students Show

My name’s Amit Tishler, I’m an animator, born and raised in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel.

I graduated from Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, where I got my BFA in animation. I am currently pursuing my Master of Fine Arts

(MFA) in the United States, at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD).

I’ve worked on several of my own independent films, and held down a full time position at Highlander studios as a Flash® animator. During my time at Highlander I worked on several television programs for local and

international stations. In addition, to my time at Highlander I was a Senior

Flash® Artist for Pangea Tools Ltd. At Pangea I was also an animator and

conceptual artist in the freelance sector. I specialize in two-dimensional (2D) animation, Flash® Animation, concept art and character design.

So far in my career my works has been a “Best Shorts Competition” award winner for my animation Mage of the Gropetesque. My independent films have been screened in various film festivals like “Hollywood Shorts”, “The

Big Bear Horror Film Festivals”, “Animazing Spotlight”, “Onecloud Festival”, “New York City International Film Festival (NYCIFF)”, and The Lucerne international film festival “Animaldicoados”, to name a few.

My first year in MCAD focused on independent film production. I created two

short films, an animated film, Mage of the Gropetesque, and a live action/ animation hybrid film, Haxx. The last year as an MFA student is currently dedicated to my current project,Necrofusion. A collaborative project between

students MCAD students. and students from 3 different U.S. schools. The

focus of the project is to create a full-length pilot episode and a video game demo that will accompany a completed “pitch” package. I plan to use this package to bring the entire series concept into production after I complete my MFA degree.

Amit Tishler Israel, Tel Aviv

Animation.

2nd year MFA

http://www.amit-tishler.com

Hebrew | English

612-770-0268

I am a first year MFA student concentrating in Graphic Design. I interested in the visualization of complex information. Society

is over flowed with data that individuals try to comprehend, but often the amount of information we have to decipher gets lots or

confused. In my work I use graphic design to illustrate visually

complex data information, and try to make that information more accessible to wider audiences. I am also interested in creating type face designs. Currently my type face designs are being

challenged and questioned through the addition of western type exploration.

I came to MCAD less than two months, and everything is still new. My hope is that

I enjoy studying here for the next two years!

Ping Ji China, Nanjing

Graphic Design

1st year MFA

www.ping-ji.com

Mandarin | English

347-878-2219

Ping Ji

Peng Wu China, Anhui province. Chinese | English 1st year MFA

Comic Art

865-963-9506

I consider myself a tourist that is wandering around this strange planet. Recording details in daily life and reconstructing those materials by story

telling is the two basic techniques I employ in my work. I am continuously

cataloging like any typical tourist that goes everywhere with a digital camera in his or her hands. As a tourist, I believe personal experience contributes to

the enrichment of cultural and historical narrative. The constant recording of details shows the route of my trip and suggests the future direction.

There is fabulous equipment here, which offers great opportu-

nities for me to explore the possibility of narrative and push my work to a new level.

Peng Wu

With charcoals and oil as the medium, I made the choice

to use drawings to illustrate my stories. I create numerous sketches on gigantic panels. The forms represent human flesh with open areas of paint. My draft marks

and painting process are intentionally left on the surface. I am willing to share my creative processes with the viewers. I do this to represent the importance of the process to my work. My subjects focus on dejected youth and the scenarios they find themselves in.

Tom Debiaso is the coolest guy in MCAD, until I got here.

Chungli Huang Taiwan, Taipei.

Mandarin | Taiwanese | English

2nd year MFA painting

Chungli Huang

My practice as a sculptor goes about the intuitive process of creating from the result of symmetry between thought and medium, and reflections between sensation and creation. In general, the concepts of my sculptures revolve on

connections and sensitivities to the medium with an attempt to unleash its potential rebirthing into pure forms. I attempt to let go of social boundaries (gender, culture, political view and so forth) during the process and engage what

genuinely matters to me, which is that fleeting moment as the creator. Hence, creation process itself, for me, is the only reality that exists while making.

At first, getting accustomed to the environment and juggling my

schedule was difficult, but along the way everything has fallen into place. I find MCADâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program, for MFA students (Critique, Theory, Studio and Grad Assistantship), in sync with my learning objec-

tives. The facilities are readily available which aids me in helping shape my forms. That being said, I think I am learning a lot, and enjoying my time here at MCAD.

Mervy Pueblo Philippines, Cavite

Sculpture

1st year MFA

gallery

English | Filipino

www.wix.com/mpueblo/web-

Mervy Pueblo

Jeongho Park Korea, Seoul

Korean | English 1st year MFA

Graphic Design 651-341-9828

I am a graphic designer. I design promotional

and marketing materials such as magazines, annual reports, posters, and brochures. My responsibilities as a freelance designer included designing, developing, publishing, packaging,

and the creation of websites for different companies.

I am basically interested in

communication. In particular, I have been focusing on language and social issues at MCAD.

Jeongho Park

As a Chinese illustrator who is receiving his graduate education in the United States, I can always feel the powerful influenc-

es from both traditional Chinese culture and modern Western

culture. For this reason, I am trying to find a balance between the opposite forces and a place where opposites meet. I paint

nudes, transformed characters, weird creatures and things to address my opinions and feelings in a direct way and to break

the close and stable form of traditional Chinese ink painting, which I am deeply influenced by. I want my audience to have the

chances of going into my paintings and sharing my emotions, rather than standing far away to have a glance.

I do not limit my audience just to be those who are interested in Chinese culture. I want to share

my emotion and feeling with people who care about and appreciate the beauty of daily life.

Studying here is one of the best experiences

in my life. The people here are very nice, and

I have access unlimited resource that have

grown my work. I have good professors who

help guide me in the direction I want my work to go.

Zhongze Lu China, Anhui

Mandarin | English | Japanese

2nd year MFA Illustration

Zhongze Lu

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know what kind of work I do, because I am still trying to

figure it out. My major is illustration, but who knows what is going to happen tomorrow, maybe I will change it~~~~

It was cool. It was fun.

Fanghao Wu Wuhan, China

Wuhannes | Chinese | English sophomore

Illustration

612-481-5896

My major at MCAD is Illustration. For my drawing and painting I

usually use acrylic and oil pastels, or color pencil. I’m not the kind of

person who “only” draws. My inter-

ests range wide. I like making stopmotion animation, clay statues and

I’m also a carving addict. I also do a lot printmaking. This show even includes my photography.

Studying at MCAD so far has been pretty good. I

feel that this is the right place for me to develop my career. I’m very happy that I can meet with a lot of creative students and teachers.

Yinfan Huang China, Guangzhou

Mandarin,Cantonese, English sophomore Illustration

612-481-8940

www.fuliye.com

Yinfan Huang

I’m an artist from Maracaibo, Venezuela, I’m a web major here at MCAD and I don’t

fully know what I do yet to be completely honest. My artwork is not very oriented

towards one medium, but for the most

part constitutes one idea. I work from memory, and how my past presents itself on my daily life. In the future I look for-

ward to work with interactive media and user experience in web environments.

My study at MCAD so far is unpredictable, unconditional.

Maria F Albornoz Venezuela, Maracaibo

Spanish | English | French Sophomore

Web & multimedia 612-275-0976

you can call me Nani.

Maria F Albornoz

I’m now a first year MFA in MCAD. I prefer use differ-

ent tools to attach cross media effect. As a graphic de-

signer with a background in print and web graphics,

my current work conveys the “brand’s” image through web design.

I’m going to focus on screen based web design and

touch screen design in Mcad. I’m sure I will learn a

great deal from MCAD about multimedia design in the next 2 years.

Huan Wen China, Harbin

Web Design

1st year MFA

www.huanhuanwen.com

Mandarin | English

612-874-4043

Huan Wen

Ziwei Liu China | Jinzhou

Mandarin | English 1st year MFA

Illustration

612-232-9456

My work primarily focuses on children’s picture books, including story writing, illustration drawing, and book design. For my picture books, the

target audiences are children aged zero to six years old. I am drawn to children’s books because I enjoy pairing simple ideas with beautiful images to create an integrated whole.

So far, I did some significant preparation for my children’s picture book. Creating the characters, and the writing story with some rough draft drawings.

As a recent graduate from Beihang University in Beijing China, I am excited to be

a first year MFA student in the Illustration program here.

Ziwei Liu

Linda Schumann Germany, Weimar

One semester exchange /11Fall

German | English

installation

In my time at the Bauhaus-Univertity

my work was about sustainability,

environmental issues, the meaning and reinterpretation of materi-

als, and sometimes family inspired

themes. The works were often very big and some of the work changed

appearances after time. The artwork I do at MCAD now is different; for in-

stance, it is quite smaller, because of the need to transport the work

easily. The subject of my work is also different. I’ve dropped the environmental theme for the time being and decided to concentrate on fam-

ily issues. I am currently exploring old portraits I find and use them in my art.

I’m at MCAD now nearly two month and I feel a tiny bit home sick. Although

I feel a kind of settled, I’ve found friends, and I’ve slowly learned where to find things in the workshops. I like that most of the studios are opened

24/7. I like to work alone in the night and that was unfortunately not pos-

sible in Germany. MCAD expects more output from its students than at my previous school, but it force me to do more artwork and be more produc-

tive. I feel it is what I need right now. I don’t want to leave MCAD after this semester, and I’m really sad to have to!

Linda Schumann

As a painter Nadia Pereira enjoys the physical and tactile aspect of her work. She is interested in history of people and the places they occupy.

The content of her paintings, however, are derived from a more specific

hybrid version that she calls ‘relative history’. Relative history encompasses everything she’s experienced in her life until right now from the history of her surroundings growing up in India, to the people she met, the culture

and the sixteen different spaces she lived in until she got to college (after which she moved again). Since she’s been in college in America, she has

convinced a lot of people that she had an elephant back home in India, that she rode to school everyday.

“I project the cultural displacement that I experience everyday through my work. It comes up in my paintings with physical objects in them and in the

dialogue created between my abstract and more figure-based represen-

tational work. People always want to identify me with either one. But it’s just like how I speak three languages; I paint in different languages too.

I’m currently a senior at MCAD studying drawing and painting. MCAD has really helped

me hear my own voice better and take more risks in my art making” says Nadia. “These

paintings are my mementoes to the little fleeting moments in life. It’s my way of making permanent, things that are in transition”

Whilst the paintings in this series do deal with the transitory nature of existence, inviting the viewers into her experience, they don’t let them in entirely and encourage them to

have their own relative experience. They are critical but hopeful, accumulated but alone, together and apart, jumbled and harmonious, chaotic and structured.

Nadia Pereira Mumbai, India

English | Hindi | French

Senior BFA

Painting/Drawing

Nadia Pereira

I am graphic designer who in love with typefaces,

illustrations, stop-motion animation, and utilizing design to communicate with various people. I believe design is supposed to serve the society. Design is a way of thinking, strategizing, and

processing information to make a difference. As a designer, I want to understand design thinking

and use my creativity; as an individual, make a difference and influence the society. Creating

beauty is part of a designerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job, but the pursuit of beauty should sever communication between

people in different cultures. I believe thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a possibility that design culture can be brought into

ordinary peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture, so that understanding creativity and design could influence a non-designers way of thinking.

Li Zeng China, Hunan province.

Graphic Design

2nd year MFA

www.lizengdesign.com

Mandarin | Hunan dialect | English

zenglicafa@gmail.com

MCAD is such a small community; I love all the people and the environment here.

I love Alexis Akagawa and

want to thank her for all the things she did and is doing for us.

Zeng Li

I am a comic illustrator who deal with short stories. I see

it as my duty to let the viewer experiences the essence of my work. I currently working on a comic book entitled, International Club, which talks about the international stu-

dentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; life in MCAD. I am also doing a picture book, which attempts to reflect the different life experiences and the stories of different generations in China. I depict the characters in the symbol of Chinese traditional Zodiac.

It is a wonderful experience for

me. I have made many new friends and obtained some in-

teresting inspirations. I am very glad to spend two years at this lovely campus.

Kang Xu China, Chengdu

Mandarin | English 1st year MFA

Comic

612-232-4423

Kang Xu

Philippe Nash Brighton, England

Illustration

Junior / 11Fall exchange

philippe.nash.tumblr.com

English

philippe.nash@gmail.com

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interested in themes of faith, community and togetherness. My interest stems from my upbringing and childhood memories as well as a couple of

projects Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been involved in over the last few years, one of these being a community art gallery called Tutu Pan Pan. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m interested in making work

that engages directly with my friends, family and surroundings. Usually

I work in sketchbooks, drawing from observation, documenting my surroundings working with lots of different pens, pencils, paint, tape and found

ephemera. Alongside this documentation process I record the things I am

listening to, reading or thinking about. My work often has a strong relation-

ship to text and type and recently I have been interested in photography as a tool for documentation.

My time at MCAD so far has allowed me to ques-

tion and develop further the content of my work. I have found the process of exploring and adapting inspiring.

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My time at MCAD so far has been extremely valuable. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been challenged by some really amazing people to rethink

what it is I believe Art to be, and how it has a place in the world.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had the opportunity to consider in what direction my own work is going, and more importantly where I want it to go.

My experiences at MCAD I know will stay with me forever.

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My work is still constantly changing, which is something I really cherish about being in art college right now. I have the freedom to try

things, to fail as well as succeed, to take time to discover a better understanding of myself as an artist.

I hope to always be able to travel to new places, keep investigating the world, meet people, talk to people. This is important to me and I want this to always inform the work I make.

Oil painting is exciting to me right now be-

cause I feel it provides a huge freedom for expression. I’ve been learning that the act of making and preparing my own surfaces

on which to work gives me a respect for that work, and allows me to connect to it physically and psychologically, and that’s really exciting.

Recently I’ve become drawn to work that

has physicality, rather than strictly two-dimensional work, which is an aspect I’d like to pursue further in my practice.

Catherine Repko Brighton, England English

Junior / 11Fall exchange

Illustration

catherine.repko@gmail.com

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