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EXHIBITION Department of Art and Art History
2022 SENIOR ART MAJORS
EXHIBITION Department of Art and Art History
ALEXANDRA BOWMAN TYLER McCONVILLE DAIMON SQUIER
Cover Images: Alexandra Bowman, Tyler McConville, Daimon Squier
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he Department of Art and Art History is delighted to present the work of this year’s graduating senior art majors: Alexandra Bowman, Tyler McConville, and
Daimon Squier. After almost two years of distance learning, they finally – thankfully – returned to the Walsh Building studios last semester, where they have worked together in spaces dedicated to making art.
During their time as Studio majors, our students acquire skills in artistic media such
as painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, animation, and digital art, to name
some of our offerings. Drawing upon the specific visual languages of these media, the students can then explore and give form to their unique individuality, a mission that the Studio faculty enthusiastically nourish. The resulting work exhibits varied and imaginative insights into the very nature of what it means to be human.
Alexandra’s trenchant political cartoons interrogate the state of American democracy and the limits of free speech. Through digital prints in particular, Tyler examines
the phenomenon of consumption, from pictures of eating to close-ups of colorful, oddly aesthetic trash. And Daimon, with his provocative, quasi-Surrealist imagery, argues that he does not present us with “photographs of imagination, but with contemplations of it.”
The Senior Art Majors Exhibition is installed in the Maria and Alberto de la Cruz
Gallery, which has now reopened to the public. I invite you to join us there, in a place where we can gather to discuss, enjoy, and celebrate the achievement of these young artists. Their inspiration and courage to share what they create are what the Studio art experience at Georgetown is all about. ¶
– DR. ELIZABETH PRELINGER Department Chair Keyser Family Professor of Art History Department of Art and Art History
ALEXANDRA BOWMAN ARTIST STATEMENT
ARTIST BIO
I use my love of drawing cartoon characters
Alexandra Bowman is a D.C.-based political
and humorously express opinions and truths
serves as the political cartoonist for the John
to visualize complex issues through metaphor to invite discussion on morality in politics and
news. My cartoons invite viewers to take a closer look at political symbols, such as an elephant or donkey, and unpack complex, high-stakes
contemporary issues. Focusing on American politics and environmental issues, I criticize
those in power and illustrate the human impact of their misdeeds. To illustrate my points,
I utilize humor and express compassionate
empathy for those abused by demagogues who exploit their power. I work to leave room for
nuance, keeping cartoons civil by avoiding ad
hominems and instead attacking on substance and calling out concrete misdeeds. I seek to
support those who operate in good faith and attack those who do not and instead seek to Alexandra Bowman,
Get On Board, 2022. Digital media. 9 x 9 in.
Alexandra Bowman, The EPA’s Anti-Smog Rule, 2022. Digital media. 9 x 16 in.
do harm. Expressive, inviting, and confidentlydesigned characters bursting with personality
distinguish my work. My illustrations employ touches of realism and classical techniques— natural anatomy, weight, form, texture,
caricature cognizant of formal portraiture—that give my work a traditional, elegant flair.
cartoonist, journalist, illustrator, and satirist and Kerry-founded environmental organization World War Zero and its subsidiary, Our
Daily Planet. Bowman is double-majoring in English and Art at Georgetown University,
and an AB/MA English student graduating
with a master’s degree in 2023. She founded The Hilltop Show, an intercollegiate political comedy web series based at Georgetown
University. Select publications include: GU Politics, the Lincoln Project, Georgetown
University’s Office of Communications, the National Wildlife Federation, BBC News, and Voice of America. After graduation, she plans to work in satirical television.
Alexandra Bowman, The Serpent Eating Democracy, 2021. Digital media. 9 x 12 in. Alexandra Bowman,
Horse n’ Heroes, 2020. Digital media. 9 x 13 in.
Alexandra Bowman, Feeding the Beast, 2020. Digital media. 14 x 9 in.
Alexandra Bowman, Time To Pass the Torch, 2022. Digital media. 9 x 9 in.
TYLER McCONVILLE ARTIST STATEMENT
ARTIST BIO
My artwork communicates a critical perspective
Tyler McConville is a multimedia artist based
live. Although my focus is in painting and
photography, painting, drawing and digital art.
of the society and structures in which I
photography, I utilize a variety of media
and techniques in exploring each subject.
Additional media include sculpture and sound. As a nonbinary person, I have a difficult and
complicated relationship with my body. I have
examined this relationship through my artwork, using surrealist paintings to communicate my
dysphoria, often selectively distorting parts of my body. I also employ surrealist paintings to create provocative imagery concerning topics
like mental health, technology, and surveillance. While some work communicates these themes through surrealist techniques, exploring other
subjects might call for a more realistic depiction. The subject of each project determines my approach to the artwork and the artistic Tyler McConville,
Spaghetti, 2021. Digital print. 26 x 24 in.
Tyler McConville, Aftermath, 2021. Digital print. 24 x 36 in.
techniques and media I explore. My artwork, including my series on eating, depicts closeup images of chewing food. In this series
and others with a focus on consumption,
I use dramatic composition, contrast, and color to bring attention to the subject.
in Washington, D.C. Their work includes
This spring, they will graduate from Georgetown University, where they expect to receive both a
Bachelor of Art in Arts and Sociology. A radical anarcho-communist, Tyler’s political orientation informs their worldview and work. Exploring
themes such as consumption and gender, Tyler’s work encourages viewers to adopt a critical
analysis of the social and political structure
sthat surround themselves. They accomplish
this by focusing on emotional or abject subjects that bring about discomfort in viewers.
Tyler McConville,
Evidence, 2021. Digital print. 36 x 24 in.
Tyler McConville,
Trash, 2021. Digital print. 24 x 37 in.
Tyler McConville, Possessions, 2021. Digital print. 24 x 36 in.
DAIMON SQUIER
ARTIST STATEMENT It is both terrifying and empowering to accept
the arbitrariness and incompleteness of human perception; to accept the absolute subjectivity
of sensory experience. Like all assumptions of the object world, images come from people—
they are the eyes’ recreation of the unknowable
Daimon Squier, Sky-Bearer, 2022. Oil on canvas. 24 x 18 in. Photograph by Gregory Staley. Daimon Squier, Dark Seed, 2021. Video still.
vision. Of course, the physicality of paint
confines the process of painting—it rationalizes the vague, emotional nature of imagination and binds light and shadow in pigment. Therefore,
I do not claim to present you with photographs of imagination, but with contemplations of it.
plane of existence outside our minds. Sight
ARTIST BIO
not only to pull from one’s impression of the
Washington, D.C. where he still lives and
is inside us always. Soto recalls an image is
Daimon Squier was born in 1999 in
past but to reconstruct a past self. It is the
studies. He is completing a BA in Art at
imagination of a past state of seeing, just as creation is the amalgamation of many past
identities reinterpreted in the present moment. This describes the process of thought and
the formation of ‘new’ ideas and images. The
paintings I present are attempts to realize in oil
paint the uncertain products of this introspective
Georgetown University with a focus on
oil painting. Since he was young, Squier has been fascinated with the endless
potential and wonder of visual art and
the incomprehensible worlds it holds. He
pursues that feeling of incomprehensibility in his own drawings and paintings.
Daimon Squier, Mind-Bearer, 2021. Oil on canvas. 24 x 18 in. Photograph by Gregory Staley.
Daimon Squier, Self-Bearer, 2022. Oil on canvas. 24 x 18 in. Photograph by Gregory Staley.
Daimon Squier, Nothing-Bearer, 2022. Oil on canvas. 24 x 18 in. Photograph by Gregory Staley.
For vision and work to coordinate the Senior Art Majors Exhibition and brochure, the Department of Art and Art History especially thanks Scott Hutchison
Associate Professor of the Practice, Painting and Drawing
Samantha Marques-Mordkofsky
Exhibitions and Public Engagement Manager, Georgetown University Art Galleries E. Brady Robinson
Lecturer, Senior Seminar, Art, and students' headshot photography Al Miner
Founding Director/Chief Curator, Georgetown University Art Galleries, and Associate Professor, Art and Museum Studies John Morrell
Professor, Painting and Drawing Exhibition and brochure design by Toni-Lee Sangastiano
Digital Media Specialist, Assistant Teaching Professor of the Practice, Studio Art and Digital Media
2022 SENIOR ART MAJORS
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