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.

COLLEEN

COLLEEN

"library spectrum"

Books, shelf

Books from my home organized by color, (ROYGBIV)

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.

John Halligan

John Halligan

Inhibition

2020

Holly

16" x 9" x 5"

March 11th a little before 1 am I laid on a table in the sculpture studio thinking about what if this is was one of the last late nights I spend here this semester. Less than 12 hours later shit hit the fan and it ended up being the last night. I couldn't process much over the first 2 weeks as my sleep schedule descended into madness. I tried drawing but it just was not the same for me, i felt trapped in my box of an apartment. This piece is a representation of life inhibiting my art practice and having us all in a stranglehold that is out of our control.

Nate Robison

Nate Robison
Congregation of The Damned
2020
Sculpey, acrylic paint, dismantled toys and statuettes, photography, whatever device the piece is being displayed on becomes part of the piece
1920 x 1080 px

Most of my interactions and relationships now happen entirely over Zoom, a service I had never even heard of before quarantine. Many of my pre-COVID close relationships seemed to have a momentous quality to them, like something deeply profound, intimate and unknowable was happening. Now that those relationships have been moved onto Zoom, there is a feeling of deflation sometimes, as human relationships are parsed down to two senses, with hiccups and glitches in between.

I wanted to make five characters that, while goofy in their own ways, seem to belong in some inter-dimensional cult, with their own dark rituals. By moving their meeting onto Zoom, the character's relationships and personalities have triviality and humiliation thrown over them, boiling what would have been a really dramatic scene down to a screen with five boxes.

The piece is any computer that fullscreens the image. I did the emails because I really like having supporting documents for the worlds my pieces are a part of.

Here's the full size:

Adam Sexton

Adam Sexton

Useless Sound Machine 002

2020

Concrete, brick, metal pail, wire, rope

24" x 48" x 24"

I'm interested in the feelings that materials generate in us through the use of our senses. The rhythm and motion is calming to me, like a bell tolling in a distant town while out for a walk on a sunny day. The materials on the other hand are coarse, hard, unforgiving and cold. The visual tension is stressful but the rhythmic strumming is hypnotic. I have been interested lately in combining as many senses into my work as possible with elements of sound, motion and texture. How do these materials and their combination make you feel?

Esther Lee

Attraction
2020

Mixed media:

paper, thread, twine, wood, mulberry paper, paint, watercolor, candle
72"x82"x90"


I was inspired to make an ethereal atmosphere of butterflies after watching a show that held a symbolic meaning of the butterfly. I was never into butterflies, but these days I find it to be so beautiful and delicate. And in order to create that feeling I tore paper into the simple shape of a butterfly. An important factor of this sculpture would be the Korean traditional lantern. The butterflies are swarming around this one source of light.  For the lantern I decided to leave two sides open and instead add flowers.

Sami Lupacchino

Samantha Lupacchino

Guess the Embarrassing Family Member

2020

plastic, paper, tape, glue, ink, paint

2.5" x 9.5" x 12"

We all know the average game called Guess Who? but has there ever been different versions of the game? Of course, having a strong connection between my family and I, I wanted to create my own version of this game I used to play when I was little. Adding my family members to this was my inspiration especially making this a collaborative piece by asking them to send embarrassing photographs of themselves in order to put it into this board game. Creating this piece gave myself a lot of reflection especially around this time during a pandemic and being thankful for those that I love most even when we are distant and cannot see one another. This piece will be one memory to never be forgotten.

Mathea Madsen

Mathea Madsen

Homeward Bound

2020

Thread, block prints, photocopies, glue

33" x 42.5"

Homeward Bound is a representation of the fragile comfort that comes with dreaming about a future. Featuring personal letters, and block printed houses, this piece is a quilt made of paper. There is something nostalgic and comforting about quilts, usually passed down, becoming worn overtime through use. It is the same with writing letters, it calls back to a past communication we often overlook in our busy world. In a conversation with my last piece, Homefront, these two works are two different sides of one coin. Whereas Homefront was about the fear and uncertainty that comes with the future, Homeward Bound is about the hope and romantic notions that come when we begin to dream. Although paper is fragile and could be torn, it often withstands the test of time. This quilt can not be used in a traditional sense; it is a symbol, something to tuck away in an attic and be remembered and thought about during our darkest times. Although the world can be uncertain and scary, there is always room to dream of days to come, and there is a sense of comfort inherently in that act.