Fall 2020: Featured Artists
College of Fine Art
School of Visual Arts
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MOLLY GERMAN (CFA’21, BFA Painting)
YEEUN (LEENA) JANG (CFA’24, BFA Graphic Design)
CHEN LUO (CFA’22, MFA Graphic Design)
My practice revolves around typography, editorial design, and visual identities with a great interest in printed and digital projects within the cultural field. Through deep experimentation and research processes, I aim to create meaningful and conceptual visual solutions for each project I undertake while considering clarity and precision.
EMILY MANNING-MINGLE (CFA’22, MFA Painting)
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LIGAIA MEYER (CFA’23, BFA Painting & CAS’23, BA History of Art and Architecture)
MAI-HAN NGUYEN (CFA’21, BFA Printmaking)
JONI SULLIVAN (CFA’21, MFA Painting)
Walking just to walk, I look at shadows, natural patterns, soft skin, happy animals, reflections, and evidence of seasons changing. In How to Do Nothing, Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell quotes David Hockney as defining “looking as a ‘positive act.’” She goes on to say: “For him, the act of looking was a skill and a conscious decision that people rarely practiced; there was ‘a lot to see’ only if you were willing and able to see it.” But translating the act of looking is challenging; I use keyed-up colors and gestural paint application to illustrate my struggle and urgency in translation. To represent these moments as how they appear in a photo isn’t enough; I want to reflect their fleetingness, and the transparency they embody once eternalized as memories.
For most, true rest is unattainable. That is, the kind of rest that resets your spirit and reaches deep into your consciousness, muscles, and organs. This type of rest is hard to imagine; is it saturation of color and thinness of space? Is it washes of light and meditative marks? How do we, so marinated in media, advertisements, and digital images, begin to strip our imaginations until there’s nothing left but calm? This body of work serves as a reminder to the world to take a moment and look, feel, and ponder—to remember our privileges—to remember our bodies—to question our habits—to counter society’s expectations—to rest. Phew.
