Cynthia Yoo

"Terebi"

2018

3 ft x 3.5 ft x 2 ft

This video installation consists of small tube TCs, VCRs, and VHS tapes from when our store recorded and distributed korean dramas (like a small Korea blockbuster!). Each TV plays a unique element of my family and our small Korean grocery store. When I look back to my childhood, I see the bright and warm colors of the neatly stacked and brightly packaged products. I see my mom's bright smile and hear her excitedly welcome each customer as they walk in the store, as if they're part of our family. I smell the vegetables cooking int he morning, and see the afternoon lull transition into quickly queued transactions. 

My hardworking parents, the bright environment and warm atmosphere are the reasons I cherish this store.

Erin Erskine

Control

2018

40"x20"x40"

Mirror, Foam, Steel

Merriam Webster Dictionary:

Control: noun, often attributive

Definition of control 1a: an act or instance of controlling

also: power or authority to guide or manage

We like to have control of the weather, politics, and in general how we live our lives.

There are things in place to allow ourselves to have some control or an idea of control.  

We can predict, dream, wish and fight for things to happen how we want.

But do we have any control at all?

Lauren Alexander

BUT

rusted steel, rice paper

approx. 4ft x 4 ft x 5 ft

2018

Repurposing old forms and creating a new controlled chaos. The rough and rusted steel cage is complimented by delicate paper planes that give a sense of depth and cast strong shadows. Viewer's eyes are constantly moving around the form following the linear and abstract lines. The sculpture is presented with a strong singular floor spotlight to enhance the shapes and cast shadows.

Deanna Marino

Creature of the Night: fabric and metal

Combining my newfound love of fabric work with my usual aesthetic and metal work, this piece was a base dress constructed from scratch with fantasy elements and structure added, as well as atmosphere that transformed it into more of an installation or performance piece. The wings and petticoat structure turned the dress from simply fashion or a costume into an art piece, and the interactive lighting concept of each participant having their own flashlights as the only illumination not only drove home the voyeristic nature of the piece, but also emphasized my main draw in the material and intention, which was to explore the way iridescent moving fabric exists under light.

Deanna Marino

Stormy Weather: a hydroelectric installation
This interactive exhibit was my first time working with water, electricity, and non-studio lights as well as alternative materials. It centers upon a suspended cloud made of polyfill over a metal frame that conceals the water mechanism that makes the cloud rain. My intention was to bring the calamity of a storm into a concealed space and tackle the engineering complexities of electricity and water, as well as frame it within a dark fantasy aesthetic nuance within which most of my work resides.

Jeff Kim

Moon for Sale

Aluminum, River Rocks, Stainless Steel, Ceramics

47” X 48” X 6”

Natural Selection has made the human community successfully adapted to the environment becoming the dominant species on planet earth. The genetic development of intelligence through thousands of generations of evolution has given the human organism the edge to reproduce, reaching almost all corners of the planet. Scientist estimate that earth’s farm-able land can produce enough food for about 10 billion people. In the year 1800 the human population was at about 0.9 billion and by the year 1900 the population almost doubled to 1.65 billion. In the year 2000 the surface population of humans exploded to 6.1 billion due to technology, human behavior and favorable conditions. It is estimated that the human population will reach 10 billion by the year 2050 which could be the tipping point causing wide famine and suffering for all living things on earth. 

As a race, humans have no choice but to explore and colonize the planets in space as the early explorers did. The moon is the closest piece of real state that humans can experiment with to colonize. 

It is inevitable that humans build communities on the moon and ultimately throughout the galaxies in space to survive and follow the natural instincts to explore. It will not take long before developers build and sell properties on the moon and other planets. As humans and other earth’s species that are shuttled to settle in space through human technology, mutation in the alleles of organisms will generate Changes in DNA to help adapt to the new environment. The continued process of natural selection and the evolution of organisms will evolve to branch into new species and the molecular clocks will continue ticking.        

Amethyst Lee

Amethyst Lee

Flight

2018

Feathers, faux fur, hot glue, wire, stuffing, polymer clay

1.5 ft x 9 in x 3 in

A realistic fantasy bird

Bailey Toman

Marina  Antoinette

Clay. shells, plastic, acrylic paint

dimensions

Bailey Toman

Nightmare girl

Clay, fabric, acrylic paint, foil, wire

dimensions

Adele Kaczmarek

Plush Vessel

2018

MDF board, soy wax, electrical wire

7' x 5' x 5"

This piece calls into question our ability to give structured form to viscous materials. MDF sets a geometric boundary to the motion of pooling liquids. The melted wax acts as a captured moment in time; frozen. As if capturing a pool of water in your hands. As a whole the piece begs the question of what things in life we try to control and further more what we have the ability to affect.