Brenna Bochow

 

Brenna Bochow 

Legendary Sand Bird

2021

Sand, white glue, ribbon

5' x 5' x 3'

This sand bird was inspired first by the material with which it was created. I knew I wanted to work with sand and create an immortalized sand sculpture. The majestic bird, in the end, is very fragile and breakable yet free and full of life and motion. 

Adam Sexton

 

Adam Sexton

Model No. DF2104

2021

Found objects, bicycle parts, paint, plywood

44" x 36" x 8"

My work explores human connections and the impacts of an ever-increasing digital world. I’m interested in the give and take, in what is lost and what is found in the name of progress. This machine was constructed as a response to my own dealings with mortality and what becomes of unrealized dreams. 

Grace Schacterle

Grace Schacterle

Unconventional Beauty

2021

Foam, plaster, wax, oil paint, pressed flowers

14 x 9.5 x 17.5 in

Unconventional Beauty is a piece to represent all of the people who don't have a body type that is deemed beautiful by society. It has been ingrained in our minds since birth that in order to be beautiful, you must be skinny, fit, and have all the right proportions. But in reality, the majority of people do not look like that. I made this sculpture to show people that those who do not meet society's ridiculous beauty standards are still beautiful. I wanted to show that the body type that many people think is unattractive, such as having features as a larger stomach, hip dips, back rolls, and textured skin, are still beautiful. I chose to incorporate wax and flowers into this sculpture because candles and flowers are two of the things I keep in my apartment to look at and experience because they look nice and make me feel good. And I wanted this piece to be something that looks nice and makes people feel good. The melting wax represents getting rid of society's expectations of us. And the flowers represent blossoming into who we are. I pressed them because I wanted to show how even when society and peoples' opinions crush us, we are still here and whole, and we are still beautiful. Unconventional Beauty is about showing people that every body is beautiful.

 

Derek Charleton Gate Keepers to Hell

 

Derek Charleton

Gate Keepers to Hell

2021

Steel

The Seven Gates of Hell comes from a myth and legend located in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania just east of the town of York. The tale as mentioned goes on as "the area in question is a wooded area off Trout Run Road in the northwestern part of the Township.  All kinds of wild rumors are attached to the area.  An insane asylum supposedly located there caught fire, allowing the inmates to escape, but seven gates surrounding the asylum trapped them and many were burned or were killed or lived on to stalk and murder. (source)" Each demonic style figure represents each gate "present" in the area, but in a deeper context refers to past fears I have personally faced throughout my childhood. They all are also considered as demonic manifestations to haunt people through fears, anxiety, stress, and depression.

Catherine McKnight

Catherine McKnight

Healing

2021

Hydrocal, gold paint, and gorilla glue

8” x 36” x 3”

 

Healing is about picking up the pieces when you are broken. One could be broken for many reasons whether that is from a relationship, a passing of a love one, etc. While picking up those pieces to try and get back to life one loses part of themselves, they are missing some pieces. In the beginning it’s hard and there’s a lot of healing that needs to happen. In Chinese culture when a ceramic piece gets a crack, they fill it with gold, the golden crack now becomes part of the piece and makes the piece more beautiful. My idea for this piece was to add golden paint to the broken and cracked parts of the hands. This is supposed to represent that even thought someone is going through this they are still beautiful and strong. I also chose to do a male hand because there is a lot of stigma around men and how they can’t show their emotions and how they should be tough. This piece is validating men and their emotions, it is okay for them to show emotion and to have/experience emotion.

Catherine McKnight

 

Catherine McKnight

Anxiety

2021

Wood, black paint, plexiglass, speedball ink, wood glue, nails, double sided tape, screws, and battery powered led strip lights

15 3/8" x 63 1/2" x 3 3/4"

Anxiety is about representing a mental struggle that anyone can go through but mostly it represents what I go through. To be specific this piece is about my struggle with my anxiety. It is about showing the audience something that I experience internally. I tried to represent this in an abstract way. This piece is not intended to be read from left to right. There in fact is no starting or ending point. It is up to the viewer to read this in a way where they feel it starts. The first box on the left represents me in this spiral like state to which I feel like there is no way out and the only thing I can do is to spiral deeper and deeper. This is when I tend to feel trapped the most. The second box in the middle consists of a bunch of question marks. My anxiety has me constantly questioning and overthinking every little single thing that I do. The last box on the right represents me in this fog like state, where my body is physically here but my mind is somewhere else. I am not mentally present when this happens. I decided to represent that with a tv static like image. Above I stated that this piece is not intended to be read from left to right that is because my anxiety has no order. It has its own life and it decided which stage it wants to start and end at. Anxiety is about getting on a more personal level with my audience letting them see and experience a side of me that I do not let a lot of people see.

Esther Lee

 

Transcending

2021

Fabric, cement, yarn, steel

10'x2'x4'

This piece represents my life in all the uncertainty, anxiety, hardships and the mundane balanced with joy, freedom and hope. Different colored and textured fabric represents moments in my life as a Korean girl navigating through life from birth to present and looking up towards the uncertain future. The dips represent the dark times in my life, and I used cement with it’s hard and rigid exterior to convey the moments when I am stuck, lost and hurting. This sculpture talks more about my personal experiences and memories in life. I can see this piece shooting up towards the sky and getting lost in the clouds.

Jeff Kim

Pinus

2021

Wood, Metal

40" x 114" x 81" 

In many cultures Pine Trees represent wisdom, longevity, fertility and peace as well as being associated with immortality, steadiness and resilience, possibly due to their successful adaptation to diverse often harsh environments and their hardiness with being evergreen in nature.  The Iroquois people were American Indians in the Northeast region of the United States. To them, the white pine is a symbol of the Great Peace that united their separate nations into an enduring League. Pine trees can be found all over the world and they are almost always associated with some important spiritual symbol.