Studio Art Graduation Catalog Work

Kaitie Friedrichs, Lost Time, photograph and Preparation Day, photograph

Ava Reynolds, from Below the Surface series, linoleum, 13” x 20” and from Zoned series, intaglio, 6.5” x 10”

Henry Cohen, selected film stills, Exodus (2019), super 16mm film transferred to HD video, 8 min.

Elizabeth Culbertson, film stills from Nora

Matthew Han, film still from Untitled, 3-D animation, 3 min.

Elizabeth Tobeason, film still, animation, 19” x 11” and print, 16” x 10”

Alexander Leck, photographs

Hope Harrison, The Giving Me, relief print, 6’ x 2’ and The Bee’s Knees, relief print, 10” x 8”

Adrienne Atkins, Reconstructed, mixed media (collaged magazines, watercolor, and gouache), 16” x 12” and Portrait of Consumption, mixed media (collaged magazines and gouache), 26” x 22”

Anne Whitney, cyanotype and thread, 15” x 10” 

Caleb Briggs, Meditations on Art, polaroid, hand-printed, original text on tracing paper, 3.5” x 4” and Learning to Read and Write,  paper cut-out, light, 13” x 26”

Helen Lin, digital trifold, 8.5” x 11” 

Yanling Chen, installation grid, 5’ x  5’ and photograph, 8” x 10”

Eliza Sofinski, Tri-Previfem II, digitally-altered prescription, 3” x 3.2” and NuvaRing, digitally-altered prescription, 5.5” x 5”

Isabella Whitfield, reunion, nature, unfired porcelain, canvas string, 31” x 92” x 22” and together, wood, twine, sand, 18” x 108” x 36”

Emeline Callaway, Death Plants, printed zine, 5.5’’ x 8.5’’ 

Kate Meek, Splattered Feet, photograph and Arms Up, photograph

Madeleine Wallach, California High-Rise Reflections, photograph and Downtown, photograph

Kellyn Henry, Da Michaelangelo, intaglio, 5.75” x 9” and Inside Voices, collagraph, 8.25” x 5.75”

Cece Hopkinson, Marsh Erosion, color reduction relief print with hand stitching, 7” x 11” and Oyster Reef, relief print with watercolor, 24” x 36”

Anna Warner, Echo I, Vandyke brown print, 5.6 cm x 6.9 cm print on 8” x 10” watercolor paper and Untitled, Vandyke brown print, 5.6 cm x 6.9 cm print on 8” x 10” watercolor paper

Kia Wassenaar, film still from Lucy, 16mm color film, 02:54 and Mainehouse, GIF, 6.35” x 5”

Kate Bollinger, film still from The Lost Necklace and film still from Waiting for the Bus

Sujin Park, film still from Present, animation

Hannah Russell-Hunter, oil on Masonite, 9” x 12” and oil on Masonite, 10” x 8”

 

"This catalog is a record of the thesis work produced by the 2020 Studio Art majors. It is a first. In any ‘normal’ year, graduating majors would have mounted an exhibition of their work. In April, the hallways and galleries of Ruffin Hall would have been packed with their paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints. In the downstairs Media Gallery, students would have projected their digital pieces, and the cinematography students would have screened their final films. Then the devastating coronavirus shut everything down, and the university moved classes to on-line platforms. The studios were closed.  With only weeks to go, all exhibits were cancelled.

As faculty, our hearts went out to these dedicated artists. Most had been working toward the goal of the exhibition for two or more years. All saw the final, penultimate year of their college careers shift from engaged group studio practices surrounded by equally dedicated peers and teachers to cobbled together resources, no facilities, and Zoom critiques. Friends they had moved through classes with and saw in Ruffin Hall every day were suddenly gone, moved home, and struggling to keep momentum going in order to graduate. There are no words to express how disappointing this must be.

This catalog must stand in for what all of us, as a department and community, will miss: the opportunity to share the success and gratification of their creativity and commitment, to meet the families who supported and encouraged these artists, and to look these students in the eye and let them know how proud we are of them. We are so sad that these graduating Studio Art majors will not get to participate in these rituals of celebration."

Instead, we present their work here, not as they would have liked, but still visible for all to see. We are honored to have been their teachers and friends. It is our hope that this catalog helps each artist feel connected to their cohort and the faculty, and that they can recognize in their work what the artist Robert Rauschenberg meant when he said, “ The artist’s job is to be a witness to their time in history.”

William Wylie

Director of Studio Art