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The 2006 Union College Senior Show
Exhibition
May 18 - June 11, 2006
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 works are
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
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.
Time Develops
Technology, 2004, linocut, 16" x 24"
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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"
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