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Without Engines, Lizzy Chemel
Without Engines, Lizzy Chemel
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Failed Starts, Anna Maria Peneva
Failed Starts, Anna Maria Peneva
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Artist Statement
This piece is an animation that looks at the struggles of a young girl attempting to make her way in the art world while battling against the pressures of self doubt and her own ability to be distracted.
As a student artist, I am currently bound to the institutional framework of Bard College’s Senior Project program. In order to graduate each student must produce a cohesive body of work throughout the year -because the four years of classes and the ten of thousands dollars in loans isn’t enough already. However, because of the fact that I …
Lifecasting & Ubiquitous Relationships, Alexis Charlotte Williams
Lifecasting & Ubiquitous Relationships, Alexis Charlotte Williams
Senior Projects Spring 2017
My subjects do not know I exist. They do not know who I am, and they do not know their lives are the center of my painting series. But I know them - at least, I think I do. My acrylic paintings depict people in domestic spaces in specific moments in time. The relationships of person-to-person, person to space, paint to canvas and voyeur to subject drives my obsession to watch and to paint what I see. What I am seeing are a collection of pixels that make up human forms, living rooms, and kitchens. These digital bodies move through …