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Abra: The Canvas, And The Evil That Men Do., Daniel Louis Nielsen
Abra: The Canvas, And The Evil That Men Do., Daniel Louis Nielsen
Senior Projects Spring 2017
“Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.” — Susan Sontag
I used this idea as a way to highlight the symbolic value of the traditional European canvas by separating each material of its composition with a sheet of plexiglass. A canvas, of any style, is a platform for creation. it servers as a foundation for perspective, and is thus symbolic of the foundation of a given cultures perspective.
Similarly to the “White Cube” discourse that is in reaction to the popular style of many museums and galleries which dominate in any …
Relics, Secular, Kaitlyn Sue Kester
Relics, Secular, Kaitlyn Sue Kester
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
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 …