Spring 2021: Featured Artists
College of Fine Art
School of Visual Arts
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Camryn Connolly (CFA’21, BFA Painting & Printmaking)
https://www.instagram.com/camrynscollections/
Georganna Greene (CFA’21, MFA Painting )
http://www.georgannagreene.com
https://www.instagram.com/georgannakel
By combining drawing, writing, photography and altered fabric, my paintings probe the relationship between poems and visual language. Leaning into personal and collective memories and body-mind symbiosis, I attempt to bring focus to the paint’s characteristics and my engagement with them through gestures and potential “accidents”. Marks that tend toward transience and fluidity begin to uproot and find a life of their own. This has become a new way of working observationally, in that, I carefully watch the behavior of paint and its relationship to phenomenology. Altering pre-worn clothing provides a symbolic way to weave limitations of the historic into painterly impulses of the present, cultivating reuse as a strategy towards renewal.
Similarly to crafting one line of a poem at a time, while frequently editing and rereading aloud, the additive and reductive tension within the construction of the work guides the direction of the paint language. The paintings are propelled forward by patient looking, and the process of making them is generative, breathing out new inspiration with each piece.
Ran (Hera) He (CFA’21, BFA Painting & CFA’22, MA Art Education)
https://www.instagram.com/heirart_/
Brianna Howard (CFA’22, BFA Painting & Printmaking)
https://www.instagram.com/brianna_howard_art/
My primary artistic subject matter of interest is the human form. Recently, I have begun to push the boundary between collage, painting, and sculpture through my painting-based collages. In a way, I am trying to blur the lines between the illusion of depth and the reality of depth. In these collages, I am attempting to explore the idea of disembodiment, or specifically the disconnect between the physical existence of my body, the societal or cultural beliefs about one’s body, and then my own perception of my body. I believe cutting up these figures is an inherently violent act and in a way, acts as a manifestation of this convoluted relation between the varied perceptions and beliefs about a body.
Julia Smithing (CFA’21, BFA Painting)
https://www.instagram.com/juliasmithing/
https://juliasmithing.wordpress.com/
Through her art, Julia explores the details of nature in ‘beautifully strange’ surreal still-lives, and inner landscapes. She studied painting at Boston University, but she grew up in Budapest, Hungary. The city in the heart of Europe will always be her home, but she is happy to call Boston her second home. Perhaps due to moving around, her works focus on natural relationships indifferent to a physical location. Julia continues her passion for artistic expression outside the art studio at synchronized swimming practices. The sport generated her interest in the human body, movement, physiology, and energy sources. It helped her find her path in exploring her passions: movement, art, and nature. They all tie together to make me the artist, athlete, and biologist she is.
Aisling Wilson (CFA’21, MFA Painting)
https://www.instagram.com/aislingwilsonartist/
My work is an introspection relating to my relationship with my native home country of Northern Ireland and my current placement in the United States, with consideration towards localised geopolitics. I observe, collect and repurpose the repetitive natural and manmade elements which make up a landscape, such as the catsear seeds which adorn the Northern Irish coastline or the acorns which litter the grounds all over Boston. The final works are intimate process-driven prints and sculptural forms which fuse the natural with the manmade.
Xianying (Bonnie) Yu (CFA’22, BFA Painting)
https://www.instagram.com/mola_bonnieyu/
