Jeff Kim

Jeff Kim

Spring

2020

Wood, Nail, Construction Paper, Hay, Glue, Fish Line, Black Spray Paint, Polyurethane

35” X 51” X 24”

Blooming of cherry blossoms and the arrival of hummingbirds are a sure sign that spring is here. Spring to me portrays renewal of life after a long cold winter. This year seems most desperate and life has gotten precarious for everyone. I wanted to create something that represents a glimmer of hope. The coming of spring with new life springing up everywhere symbolizes that sentiment. So, I present “Spring” to everyone.      

Brenna Bochow

Brenna Bochow

"Bubbleman Farm"

2020

Wax, fiberglass, tent, orzo, acrylic paint, rope 

12' x 6' x 6'

This installation piece was inspired by an insect I encountered on my study abroad trip to Tanzania. The insect in question, known as the Nairobi Fly, releases a toxin when crushed on the skin that causes blisters. Thus given the nickname "blister beetle". However, the students on this trip referred to the bug as "The Bubbleman", and I personally had one of the worst wounds on the trip. I created a plaster mold of my friend's back and used melted wax to craft a replica of her back so I could recreate my own bubbleman blisters. The surrounding tent represents the fear of being with the insects in an enclosed environment, making their toxins impossible to avoid. 

Spencer Maussner

Spencer Maussner

Twisted 

2020

Vines, cotton thread, glue

129"x32"x1"

I always find myself drawn to doing really weird meticulous things. I've learned that I enjoyed working with thread from past projects that I've done. During these times I've found myself struggling extremely with being creative and motivating myself. I was inspired by these massive vines that were growing off of some trails that I would walk in a desperate attempt to get out of my house. Originally I had a very different idea, but after I unpacked a lot of my things that I brought home I remembered my 9,000 yards of white thread and decided I may as well use them. I figured if I was going to just wrap some string around beautiful vines I may as well make it 10 feet tall and from that point on I was determined to finish this as fast as I could just so I wouldn't have to wrap thread ever again.

Colin Shakespeare

Colin Shakespeare

"Memories"

2020

Lamp, Bullet shells, Coins, Old animals

16x9x9

This is a collage much like a shadowbox of my childhood to create a scene resembling the remains in the context of a different timeline on earth. they become the remains of a velociraptor represented with currency and firepower.

Jeffrey Churchman

jeffrey churchman
sketch
2020
finished product will be made of plexiglass, steel, and rope
ideally will be 7ft tall 5ft wide and 2 ft long(?)

the concept behind this piece is a continuation on a piece I made fall semester. I would like to create relatively the same piece just much larger and with a steel frame to hold the plexiglass up instead of the wooden box.

Michaela O'Connor

Michaela O'Connor

If not you, someone else

2020

boards, nails, oil paint, rubber bands

27" x 45" x 1"

For this piece, I wanted to describe an abstract feeling with imagery and text. I am interested in the ambiguous. Ambiguity leaves viewers without a definitive answer in hopes that they will dircet their search inward, toward themselves. The rubber band boards were my inspiration for the idea, because I enjoyed the movability of the rubber band words. Therefore, the rubber bands are not fixed and could be changed at anytime.

Sebastian Velasquez

John Sebastian Velasquez
"Love Triangle"
2020
concrete, brick, wood, steel, rubber
5' x 11' x 11'

Inspired from Tony Cragg's early experimental found object work, I also used cylindrically shaped industrial objects that I rearranged and constructed into a series of three tower like structures.  Each of these objects share a material, creating visual recognition as your eye moves from form to form.  Subsequently, each of the three have some kind of relationship to the other.  My use of raw and industrial materials in these sculptures are a physical representation of the emotional connections formed through shared feelings.

Catherine McKnight

Catherine McKnight

What Grows a Body?

2020

Nature, feet and hands

10' x 20' x 15'

When you plant a seed you grow a plant so what do you have to plant to grow a body? I want the audience to ponder on this question and everyone can have their own answer to this question. This is also a glimpse into my mind about the random things I think about especially now during this quarantine. What if we lived in a different world where this is normal? Imagine we lived in a time where everything was like The Adams Family something like this would be completely normal. The body parts can grow anywhere just like anything else in nature.