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Chromaticity, Whitney Anne Hagen
Chromaticity, Whitney Anne Hagen
Senior Projects Spring 2023
Chromaticity is an objective specification of the quality of a color regardless of its luminance consisting of two independent parameters. These are often specified as hue and colorfulness, where the latter is alternatively called saturation, chroma, intensity, or excitation purity. These parameters follow how the human eye perceives color, giving us visual cues when navigating the world. In abstract art, where form is not bound by the constraints of representation, color becomes the primary tool for communication. Creating harmony, tension, emotion, and balance, the color relationships in this collection of work communicates to the viewer in a visual language that …
Endure, James C. Toomey
Endure, James C. Toomey
Senior Projects Spring 2023
The work is tubular: fistulous, circulatory.
It starts out as a body and obscures into something sprawling and replicating, perhaps cancerous.
Some parts are handmade paper. I begin with a pulp and strip it in water, then pour it into thin sheets— it dries practically weightless. It shrivels and shrinks and clings to itself, tenderly. It leaves caverns inside.
The work withers how I might expect skin to act when it is no longer living. I was sixteen when I held my father while he died. When I peel away my paper sheets, it is how I imagine it might …
This Side Of Silver, Bennett Wood
This Side Of Silver, Bennett Wood
Senior Projects Spring 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Realm Of Remembrance, Brandon Vanbach
Realm Of Remembrance, Brandon Vanbach
Senior Projects Spring 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
In September of 2021, I turned 21 years old. During that time I also discovered a 8mm video tape in my childhood home. Unbeknownst to me, this tape, which hadn’t seen the light of day since its conception, would end up consuming my life.
The tape was a home movie filmed by my mother and her partner at the time during an outing to Vietnam in 2005. The footage consisted mostly of landscapes and claustrophobic close-ups of distant relatives. Rarely would I enter the frame. But I wasn't interested …