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Common Thread, Isobella Rose Grubb-Kovach
Common Thread, Isobella Rose Grubb-Kovach
Senior Projects Spring 2022
We are nature, and nature is everything. Our bodies reflect the patterns found in nature—our veins and cells mimic lichen and mold, roots, water, vines.
Painting does not require a message. It is independent of me, the artist; it stands on its own, a child made by my hand. It is sent out into the world alone, unaccompanied by my touch or comment, its only task to procure a visual experience, a collaboration between geometry and gesture, for those whose eyes rest upon it.
The mind is drawn to nature; we are endowed with the ability to connect our selves …
Barking With The Dog, Cameron Orr
Barking With The Dog, Cameron Orr
Senior Projects Spring 2022
Artist Statement
“Barking With The Dog” got its’ title from a poem by Leonard Cohen:
I never really understood
what he said
but every now and then
I find myself
barking with the dog
or bending with the irises
or helping out
in other little ways
“Barking With The Dog” is a series of illustrative collages, linocut prints, an upcycled bench containing personal artifacts, drawings and collage on the walls and floor. These pieces are connected through visual content, physical medium, and artistic intention. The collages are made using upcycled prints and drawings. These pieces represent the early stages of …
This System Has Failed Us, Kate Murray Bickhardt
This System Has Failed Us, Kate Murray Bickhardt
Senior Projects Spring 2017
When I go to a courtroom the only color I see is orange. I don’t want to talk down to people. The projection is level to the floor. There are 2,500 napkins. They are the people, the garbage, and the repetition of the excess, and my hope of giving them importance. There are roughly 2,500 people in the Orleans Parish Prison on any given day, but the system is bigger than them. It’s more consuming and this is not nearly the amount of napkins it would take to represent the people in even just one state's carceral system. The space …