The 2006 Union College Senior Show Exhibition
Closing Reception
Saturday, June 10, 2:30 - 4 PM
Each year, the Mandeville Gallery presents a selection of rotating exhibitions of contemporary art, science, and history. Included among these is a group exhibition of the work of our graduating visual art students. The Union College Senior Exhibition creates an opportunity for these art majors, their professors, their families, and their friends, to look back over four years of creative effort at Union College.
This show provides a chance for these artists to exhibit an overview of their accomplishments, and both they and their audience are able to view the work in the context of the group as a whole. We are pleased to be able to share their accomplishments with the community.
-Rachel Seligman, Mandeville Gallery
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Nasifa Bishop
Choosing to view the world through artistic eyes is a unique experience; there is a developed appreciation for smallest and simplest things in life.
My work gives insight into my perception of shapes, forms, and tones. My prints are more graphic and describe the object in a completely different light from my drawings. Overall, my artwork expresses my personal interpretation of life and provides an opportunity for the viewer to interpret in their own light.
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| Free, 2004, linoleum print, 18" x 24" |
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Kate Gustafson
Art is making something of nothing. It is turning an idea into everything you dream it to be before it gets washed away.
My art is a collage of my own heart and dreams. It is my life in progress.
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Instructions, 2006, mixed media on paper,17" x 19"
Image text: "learn to watch snails. laugh a lot. listen to old people. write love letters. cry during movies. hug trees. build a fort with blankets. stay loose. do it for love. invite someone dangerous to tea. explore. paint. go outside."
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Kota Kobayashi
Attachment, 2005, Oil on Canvas, 70" x "24
The purpose of my creation is to provide positive influence to directly affect your heart. I truly hope that my worksare able to stimulate you just enough to appreciate the warmth within yourself.
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Jeff Meola
Apples… done in my early years at Union where I used paintings from artists and reproduced them to transform the image showing my personal interpretation.
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Apples, 2003, water color, 21 1/2 " x 15 1/2"
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Harrison Paras
Time Develops Technology, 2004, linocut, 16" x 24"
An artist cannot isolate the purpose of his work to his own interpretation, but instead must understand that people will have their own interpretations, giving the art infinite potential.
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Jessica Ritchie
A large part of my attraction to art comes from the fact that two people can look at exactly the same image and each can take something totally different away from it. Neither point of view is ‘wrong’ and neither point of view is ‘right’.
The artist's explanation of their work often becomes the concrete meaning to the viewer, thus closing the door to interpretation and creativity on the part of the viewer. Art is a creative process not only for those who create it, but also for those who interact and admire it.
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Roots and Branches, 2005, etching, 4" x 6x
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Jeff Shrensel
“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.” Pablo Picasso
....I strive to include in my artwork; a strong sense of the feelings that are involved with my subject matter, as well as capturing as much of my subjects’ how's and why's...but work that allows the viewer to have a more complete understanding of the subject matter – to truly see it and know it in the way that have.
Elizabeth's Orange, 2004, reductive linocut, 12" x 16" |
