Accumulative course artist statement final

Example Artist Statements

Randy Bolton

Working with representational images that are singular, paired, or grouped together to form abbreviated pictorial allegories or narratives, Bolton’s screenprints employ a kind of visual metaphoric language that is familiar, direct, and accessible on the surface, but one that is layered to have a more subversive subtext that is rich in double-meanings and ambiguities. Bolton’s recent screenprints are based primarily on photographic or documentary evidence – from photos taken on his iPhone of rather ordinary or quotidian subject matter – the kind of forlorn-looking things that are seen and observed in the “real” world, which are then digitally reworked and reassembled into a singular or multi-panel format to create open- ended, associative visual narratives. Bolton’s screenprints are made using a 4-color separation process and printed by hand in very limited editions of 10 or less, most often on 22” x 30” Rives BFK paper.

Jennifer D Anderson There is something about me that makes me wonder about the imperceptible quality of stars in the noonday sun, what forces hold clouds up in the sky, and what arranges the sundry of the universe. This work is about the relationship of these and many other unknown things and a faith in their existence that is strong enough to try to visualize and recreate them. It is about working towards understanding in both a tangible physical way and a subtler spiritual one. Through a progressive buildup of graphite, my hand delicately asserts itself over photographs I have taken of the sky over my home and during my travels. Drawing is, to me, a loving process of focused attention and deliberate mark making as well as a meditative means of creating that reflects my visceral energies into the finished work through many hours of prolonged touch. The work then contains within it an intersection of humanity and nature, as well as a vast sense of intrinsic history.

I layer imagine upon imagine, skin on top of a portrait, lace below an x- ray, toys with old age, a variety of faces. I layer photographs I have taken, ones I have found, handwritten notes and medical diagrams. I layer to reflect how human identity is a composite of stories, memories, information, physical sensations, as well as the mechanisms that make one human. I adhere whisper thin sheets of paper together until they are inseparable. I adhere to create images with a three-dimensional depth as one layer is seen through another and another. I adhere because we are amalgamation, complex and nuanced our identity includes the physical, spiritual, past and present – one part cannot be removed from the rest. I contrast, male and female, beauty and horror, skin and bone, childhood and senility. I contrast to reflect the richness of the human experience and our dualities. I contrast front and back to let the curious viewer see more, to express how we always are more than what the eye first sees. I cut with small sharp scissors, shaping these images into the profile silhouette of one of my models. I cut to reference the work back to the body, to point to the commonality of the human form, as the vessel we each temporarily have to hold our own stories.

Student Examples

"The Ten Moments of Armenian Velvet Revolution"

The power of people united is such a glorious moment that always makes me stop,

respect and cherish. The moment of Justice to be served and people being the Winner, in any.

place in the world, is breath taking and promising for all of us "Dreamers". That is why I made

The Ten Amazing Moments of Armenian Velvet Revolution artist book. After struggling and more

than two decades of Post-Soviet Union corruption and dictatorship, people of Armenia, unified

by idea of creating a democratic country, and fighting for the minimum Human rights, took

down the working govemment with its criminalized oligarchy. I wanted to create a work that will

express that single moment of unity, power, and determination.

Being passionate for the subject I already had a close observation and engagement of the

subject. But within images I searched, I was looking for what unified all of these people with

different political ideologies and social interests. I find the flag is everywhere and in all

photographs, which indicates the wish of people to take over their country. That became my

inspiration and focal point of view. My goal is to inspire those who see my work to experience

the same excitement I had, and to focus on the single idea and symbol that unifies all amazing

moments of this significant event of our time.

To accomplish that goal, I reduced the information of soundings such as; color, faces,

places, and left only the outlines. Then I painted the flags in each image to emphasize the

significance of it as a symbol, and unify them with that subject'

My wish is to celebrate the Human life with my audience and leave a mark in their mind

and heart, to remember it and appreciate the moments such as those in my work'

Nina Ava

Spring 2019