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There And You, Deanna Doty
There And You, Deanna Doty
Student Projects
A series of self-portraits through mundane objects and places that explore the concept of living in our ever changing contemporary world while creating formally interesting graphic images, keeping in mind how color and reoccurring motifs are represented throughout the images.
When Did I Stop Being Invincible?, Amy M. Fleming
When Did I Stop Being Invincible?, Amy M. Fleming
Student Projects
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Constructed Inhumanity, Karl P. Bibler
Constructed Inhumanity, Karl P. Bibler
Student Projects
This series is a long-term project documenting my own interaction with urban architecture. Distanced or completely separated from human scale, the physical connection with the setting is lost, allowing the work to represent my own frustrations and feelings of alienation. Throughout the life of this project, those feelings have changed. My frustration with the dehumanizing nature of capitalism drove me to photograph what I viewed as “corporate” architecture, intent on showing the viewer the frustration and alienation that I felt so strongly. Over its lifespan however, this series became an introspective exploration as much as it is a representation of …
Forbidden Fruit, Briana N. Anders
Forbidden Fruit, Briana N. Anders
Student Projects
This series of photographs explores the relationships between color and sexual desire through elaborate scenes involving fruit, people, and objects grouped together according to color theory. This work focuses on common color patterns, tones, and hues to give depth within each individual image. This series is a reinterpretation of the biblical story about the Garden of Eden and the Forbidden Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Many speculate that the Forbidden Fruit is a metaphor and euphemism for sex, which is a strong theme for my work. The ambiguity of the models provokes conversation about censorship and identity. This work …
Consequences, Brieana Myrick
Consequences, Brieana Myrick
Student Projects
Our need for convenience has drastically and permanently damaged the environment. These images explore how we as individuals produce so much waste, most of which is single use plastics and food waste. These photographs use satire and humor to provoke a conversation on how we constantly choose to support companies that have very wasteful products. If we choose not to support companies that are environmentally destructive, they will have to listen to their customers and make a product that is easier to recycle, more sustainable, more compostable or biodegradable. We say that we want to do better for the environment, …
Chromatic Reverie, Paul Zollinger
Chromatic Reverie, Paul Zollinger
Student Projects
The phenomenon of color perception is unique to every individual. Our view of color can be shaped by our mood, feelings, and memories. In Chromatic Reverie each frame is projected briefly giving a feeling of impermanence. As the slide carousel spins, we are guaranteed the same mass-produced colors over and over again. The experience of the saturated and intense colored images is a communal one. Yet, the colors and way you see them for their brief moments will be remembered by every individual differently. The color presented will always be consistent because they are manufactured in controlled environments. But human …
Iterations, Kinga Wojciaczyk
Iterations, Kinga Wojciaczyk
Student Projects
These works focus on the interconnectedness of the commonplace, the world, and the universe as a whole. Utilizing imagery originating in the natural world, photographic compositions are layered and blended through Photoshop to become optically dense abstractions. The visual energy creates an intensified sensory perception and viewing experience. Bringing forth ideas about the microcosm and macrocosm instills a contemplative process of looking, which plays on the human need to know and understand. A philosophy of interconnectivity unites the representational and abstract, fusing the two within sublime iterations of the tangible world. These pieces hone metaphysical entropy as a means to …
Load - Bearing, Elyse Sawka
Load - Bearing, Elyse Sawka
Student Projects
This body of work explores the understanding of literal and metaphoric attachments to intimate spaces I once had access to; my interest lies in memory, identity, and place. This investigation began with photographic documentation and then image deconstruction either digitally or physically. I employ the practices of photography, installation, and sculpture in a constant state of examination of space, form, and perspective. load - bearing occupies the space between familiar and foreign. Through the re-contextualization of images, intimate objects, and raw construction material, I edge closer to understanding the lasting impression of space and the way memory can eclipse experience.
Fresh Out, Antoinette Viola
Fresh Out, Antoinette Viola
Student Projects
Fresh Out explores the infinite and indefinable world of femininity. Portraits, still lifes, and installation materials work together to investigate gender performance, power structures, and pleasure paradoxes. Within staged scenes of domestic arrangements and female bodies, a synchronicity between disturbance and enchantment is created. I define pleasure paradoxes in accordance to this synchronicity; an interest that both repulses, embarrasses, or disturbs you, while also excites and intrigues. When I think of these guilty pleasures, I immediately think of gender. I explore objectification, control, and sex positivity through my portraits of females; but there is a push and pull between silliness …
The Creatures Come Out To Play, Megan Crocker
The Creatures Come Out To Play, Megan Crocker
Student Projects
Study on the real vs not real of imagination that captures the mind. To take something that seems so out of touch with reality and bring it to life in photographs.
Otherwise Uninteresting Things, Sheena R. Daugherty
Otherwise Uninteresting Things, Sheena R. Daugherty
Student Projects
These images were compiled throughout my daily life, capturing moments that drew my attention while I was doing otherwise uninteresting things. Because sometimes what surrounds us goes unrecognized. There is a failure to slow down and examine. A failure to acknowledge that the quiet moments have value. They have depth. They have purpose. Details from the three dimensional world are flattened onto the two dimensional surface, shifting both context and perception. This leaves an opening for interpretation and reflection, and an opportunity to place emphasis on what may alternatively be lost amongst the noise.
Freshly Settled, Kathleen Albano
Freshly Settled, Kathleen Albano
Student Projects
Our early 20's are full of fleeting moments. We roam in a strange, yet electric, in-‐between stage of aging. I became conscious of this myself, when I married at the age of 21. Our days grew shorter, as a youthful routine began to merge with a new domestic one. Drinking cheap beer with the regular crowd on the weekends, only to open our eyes and realize we’re back to work. Through photography, I attempt to disrupt this time that escapes me in an effort to hold on to this fast paced life.
Neglected Interiors, Linda F. Zalewski
Neglected Interiors, Linda F. Zalewski
Student Projects
The images in the series, Neglected Interiors, capture the remote interior spaces of abandoned industrial buildings. I focus on the aesthetic qualities of the room as there is wonder in the remnants and vacant structures. Anyone can view the exterior, however by entering the gated facility grounds, I can give glimpses into the industries left behind. I experience thrills by trespassing, uncovering decaying ruins in hazardous conditions. I travel through these spaces, reflecting on how they were once fully functioning and wonder about the building's former life.
Accommodating Complexities, Sean Zierer
Accommodating Complexities, Sean Zierer
Student Projects
Function, flow, and space are the inspiration for this visual study of contemporary hotel architecture. I have been investigating how these hotels welcome their guests through the use of architecture and design. Styles such as Post-Modern and Neo-Futuristic designs are part of what make these newer hotels so alluring. Using these forms of architecture, they delve into creative ways to make these buildings exciting spaces for interactions. These buildings possess a unique ability to flow between feelings of home, purpose, and escape, achieving business functionality while simultaneously upholding a vacation attitude. They tap into an ability to be more than …
Queer Space, Amy L. Shelton
Queer Space, Amy L. Shelton
Student Projects
Queer Space For this project, I photographed LGBTQIA+ young adults in their bedrooms and living spaces. My interest in these spaces stems from a desire to find places that feel like home. In my search, home does not necessarily need to be defined as the four walls in which a person lives. I would rather define "home" as a place where the subject feels safe, accepted, loved, and at peace. A "safe space" is categorized by being an environment in which a person or persons can feel confident they will not be exposed to discrimination, criticism, harassment, or any other …
Threshold Concepts As Metaphors For The Creative Process: Adapting The Framework For Information Literacy To Studio Art Classes, Larissa K. Garcia, Jessica Labatte
Threshold Concepts As Metaphors For The Creative Process: Adapting The Framework For Information Literacy To Studio Art Classes, Larissa K. Garcia, Jessica Labatte
Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications
With the revision of the ACRL information literacy standards into a metaliteracy framework, art librarians now have an opportunity to better adapt information literacy instruction for studio art students. By using the new information literacy threshold concepts as metaphors for the creative process, a Northern Illinois University art faculty member and an art librarian collaborated to help students in an advanced studio photography class recognize the importance of research and information literacy skills in the development of their artistic vision and to improve the quality of their work.