in spite of fear
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2016 BFA Review, Part I of II University of Wisconsin - MadisonTRANSCRIPT
BFA REVIEWPART I of II
IN SPITEOF FEARAnna Arnold 2Kat Bunke 4Alan De la Cruz 6Hannah Goldberg 8Rebecca Gongora 10Mackenzy Price 12Kaitlin Hackner 14Lucy Hodkiewicz 16Noah Huber 18Anna Jacob 20Cassidy Johnson 22Shannon Jones 24Smiley Gatmouth 26Grace Meurer 28Anna (Max) Moser 30Eric Newble 32Karen Singer 34Laura Williams 36Xinmeng Yu 38Melanie Xiong 40
2 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
ANNA ARNOLD
Untitled
Conte crayon on canvas with embroidery
Does biology make women or does the society?
My work is an on going exploration of womanhood. Trying
to understand the difference between the biology that
makes up a woman and the contemporary beauty rituals
many women practice in order to be seen as feminine
and sexually attractive.
4 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
KAT BUNKE
Well-Rounded Childhood
Found toys, found clothing and bedding, yarn, found objects
My art focuses on making inner personal conflict visible
and part of current political and social discussions. This
piece starts conversations about sexism, feminism,
heteronormativity, and mental health as they plague the
lives of young children, girls in particular, in the most
pervasive of ways. My art looks to be a platform for topics
about which it can be too difficult to speak out loud,
presenting a voice where there was once silence.
6 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
ALAN DE LA CRUZ
Untitled
Ceramic installation with correlating
colored pencil on paper illustration
“Yet saddest of all fates, surely, is to have lost that sense
of the holiness of life altogether; that we commit the
blasphemy of bringing thousands of lives to a cruel and
terrifying death or of making those lives a living death –
and feel nothing.”
- Reverend Dr. John Austin Baker, commenting
on the cruelty of modern animal agriculture
8 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
HANNAH GOLDBERG
An Arrangement
Oil and wax on canvas
Two divergent impulses guide my work; the impulse to
work meticulously, even obsessively, and the impulse work
in a more expressive, intuitive manner. These impulses
represent, to me, the contradiction of human nature;
we simultaneously desire order, and disorder. My work
investigates the boundaries of these impulses, as well as
where they converge.
10 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
REBECCA GONGORA
Postpartum
Medicine Cabinet, Baby Bottles
As a new mother the everyday seems to become an
overwhelming thought and that the identity of yourself
is now completely intertwined and possibly overtaken by
another person, a responsibility, a role. Everyday a
reflection of a before and now after.
12 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
MACKENZY PRICE
Kin 2,
Oil on paper
Family is what drives and motivates me to follow my
passions. Despite not having a concrete theme throughout
my work, I can easily say that family will always be the
starting point for my paintings. I hope to embody the
laughter I have shared in the paint I apply to a surface.
14 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
KAITLIN HACKNER
Caffeinated Synergy
Brewed coffee, coffee grounds, coffee creamer, gold paint
Although my artistic practice is constantly changing
due to practicing with different mediums or finding new
inspiration, my current practice is focused on human’s
emotional attachment to the natural world. I have learned
that we are deeply connected to nature both physically
and emotionally. In my most recent work I portrayed
mountainous landscapes and focused on humans desire
to immerse themselves in environments that have been
unchanged by society.
16 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
LUCY HODKIEWICZ
The Letter Project
Notebook
My recent work utilizes community participation and
explores communication and relationships. Relationships
often fade, and I hope to make work that encourages
people to reach out to those they don’t speak to anymore.
18 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
NOAH HUBER
Succulence
cumin seeds, Inkjet print, jimmies, lubricant, oil, plastic,
polyurethane on masonite
20 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
ANNA JACOB
White Lake
Watercolor and letterpress
In the final few months of school my family was often on
my mind and I was heavily influenced by the death of my
grandmother. These paintings depict memories of the
time I spent with her.
22 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
CASSIDY JOHNSON
Itch
Cherry wood
Change has no beginning and no end. My artistic process
of mindfully shedding, peeling, and growing is a continuous
exploration of learning and identifying the self.
24 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
SHANNON JONES
Rocking Swing
Pine, paint
An arborist father constantly adding stumps and firewood
to the woodpile the height of our garage. Swaying back
and forth on our backyard swing set-- a new layer of stain
covers the slivers slowly seeking their way to the surface.
Driving across the country, venturing to places that have
been deemed picturesque, beautiful, the epitome of the
romantic sublime… silently feeling like I am still in my
dad’s backyard.
26 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
SMILEY GAT MOUTH
Dying
Multimedia (Ink on Water, Bars on Bars, Poetry, Flowers)
Smiley Gatmouth is a contemporary urban philosopher.
He records his inner most revelations in writing and frames
his writing in audio, visual and other cerebral media that
may constitute art. His work is witty, intellectually rigorous
and entirely too personal.
28 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
GRACE MEURER
Purl Type Specimen I
Digital print
Purl is a typeface that functions both as a knitting pattern
and a legible typeface. Purl includes an ornamental
weight, a display weight, six text weights, and a set of
dingbats, which are decorative characters. The dingbats
can be used to create an unlimited number of patterns.
30 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
MAX (ANNA) MOSER
I don’t want to remember
Stabilo drawing on acetate
My undergraduate work has largely focused on mental
experiences, or how the mind affects the physical world.
Mental realities are just as vivid to me as physical ones.
It is a broad interest that spans from childhood narratives
and mental illness to the line between a person and their
body.
32 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
ERIC D. NEWBLE JR.
names; i can remember.
Mixed Medium Performance Painting
Eric Newble is alive. Eric works to capture moments and
feeling, in order to put words and sound to the things we
don’t hear, or only think. His work is meant to begin a
conversation with the audience, but not about him, about
themselves.
34 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
KAREN SINGER
Seasonal Disorder
Wire, beads, copper tubing.
Life’s experiences need to be shared through a physical
object that influence the viewer. Art can be seen, touched,
photographed, documented and shared with others. I have
found no better way to connect to the human condition
than with a visual display of the human thought process.
36 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
LAURA WILLIAMS
Balloons
Ceramic, underglaze
Laura Williams will receive her BFA in Ceramics and
Drawing in December of 2016. The majority of her
undergraduate work deals in issues of social awareness,
gender, and sustainability. Williams hopes to go on to
teach art in whatever community she inhabits.
38 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
XINMENG YU
Seethe
Oil on canvas
Emotions, movements and drama are three important
elements that inspire me. I love to invest them through
observing human body. Working on larger canvas, applying
new color palettes, invest different degree of abstraction
and exploring more complex drama is my current goal.
40 - IN SPITE OF FEAR
MELANIE XIONG
Museum Mishaps #1, Museum Mishaps #2
Mixed Media
You don’t have to be a genius to understand cartoons. It
can be as simple as reading a comic strip or watching a
fully animated series. You can take it as it is or read between
the lines, but either way it’s accessible to just about everyone.