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There And Now, Tinghua Huang

Senior Projects Spring 2017

THERE AND NOW

by Tinghua Huang

History/Observation of Life/Rebellion/Challenge/ Time/(without)Intention

In my exhibition, I have photos, bags, garments, the FIT IN room, and a clock with a second display. I will explain my points for choosing to put them in my show, and it is up to you, the viewers, to take it, expand it, or not. I believe there is never a final answer to art, as long as humans have their own ability to think.

I made the choice of putting the photos in my show to convey a straightforward sense of my personal background: where I am …

Second Helpings, Teddy Daniel Trocki-Ryba

Senior Projects Spring 2017

“Photographs are the visual assimilations of experiences. When the suceed it is a miracle. To expect this to happen in plentitude is a narcissistic sham...that is my interpretation of lissette words of the once a year concept,” said Larry today, digitally reiterating an earlier conversation about his professor’s theory of photographic miracle work because I had forgotten some of the finer points. I’ve been at Bard for eons now, or at least it always feels that way even though I only took one year off. Though by some combination of personal excitement and miraculous happenstance I find myself at the …

The Phallic Woman: A Reexamination Of The Problematics Of Women And Surrealism, Adrienne Anne Chau

Senior Projects Spring 2017

To see a work by a female surrealist is, perhaps, to see surrealistically. In other words, if the canonical, Western accounts of surrealism are what we are accustomed to, then the act of seeing a work of a woman completely disorients our trained familiarity with the movement, which up until the 1970s was left undisturbed. The principles of the movement, founded on the personal investigation of one’s psyche, lent themselves as an opportunity for the surrealist woman to explore the interior sources of her creative imagination. Visual expression of their self-discovery provided a different perspective of modern woman’s world and …

Small Vanities, Alexander Weinstock

Senior Projects Spring 2017

This project is about how people present themselves and how we interpret that presentation.

Pleasure Garden, Vanessa Marie Kotovich

Senior Projects Spring 2017

At first it is a world of seductive beauty. A place where life flourishes and fades. A pure fascination dissolves the extremities, forming one’s own isolation. An immersion of the self arises within a foreign world. A world without dimension, direction, orientation, or scale. Lacking one’s standard delineation, senses become heightened, indistinguishably blurring together. Flies become flying jewels. These jewels fill the atmosphere in order to feed upon the paralyzed piglets. Such foreignness is blissfully absorbed through the transparent eyeball.

Beyond The Surface, Tamar Sandalon

Senior Projects Spring 2017

This world is my own. I’m like a child in a new house, I just want to explore. Everything is exciting, and I’m seeing it for the first time.

I’ve created a series that primarily focus on curiosity and base reaction. Ordinary scenes are depicted through a childlike lens. Images are flattened, their planes meld together creating fluctuation and distortion- a nod to reality’s inherent fluidity. These images are not windows, rather, they resemble canvases. They explore color and expression in an immediate fashion, but also contain subtleties- little secrets. When photographing people, I tend to focus on individuals, though …

Homebody, Margaret Melissa Bayard

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Arts of Bard College

The room is lit with incandescent candelabra bulbs that glow with warmth. Refractions of light stream down the sconces, onto the cream colored walls, and around a weathered portrait that cannot be seen. Leaning against an oak side table, a man stands in front of the painting, creating an illusion of a life-like portrait. Shadows fill out the ripples in his crisp oxford shirt and the rugged folds of his face. His eyes cast a look of sweet seriousness down to me. His tilted smile leans toward his right …

One Thousand Guinea Pigs, Martie Ilena Stothoff

Senior Projects Spring 2017

One Thousand Guinea Pigs

When I was at home earlier in the year, I explained to my parents that my photography project was about the relationship between humans and animals. My father then told me about how he had heard our friend, Gabi, a professor in agriculture at Smith College, on NPR talking about her newest sustainability project. My father said, “You know how people use goats to mow the lawn? Well, she uses guinea pigs. But she needs to use a lot of them – like a thousand.” So, there I am, picturing one thousand guinea pigs munchin’ away, …

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 …