An explosion of spikes and piano keys exceeding the barrier of the chest is an interpretation of power and mixed emotions. This is a compilation of several different types of material not to create a specific image but to influence the viewers to continuously add thoughts about the creature.
Sarah Freitag Fine Art Revolutionaries
Foam, Cement, Acrylic Paint, Found objects
This piece started as a play on fine art in the garden and tacky garden art. The painting Washington Crossing the Delaware depicts the United States’ foundation by showing glory, victory, and hard work. Garden gnomes represent the consumerism within our middle to lower class citizens. This piece shows how the United States started to where it is today.
The Veneration Portraits
Stained Hand Casted Concrete and Ornamentation w/ Graphite and Oil Paint
The Veneration Portraits investigates identity that is described through deeply rooted interactions with nature. The University of Delaware grounds keeping members interested in the devoted physical labor required to maintain forces of nature, sustain this campus and are the subjects of my piece. I consider grounds keeping’s collaborative efforts a powerful part of an unseen history that is often overlooked. Their poses reference presidential portraiture where one single figure represents a larger group and assumes power. My goal is to create visual landmarks to represent the permanent integrity of their work while commemorating their labor-intensive and dignified involvement with nature.
Chiaroscuro
I found black and white floors:
Inside seventeenth century Dutch houses,
In an abandoned convent-turned-active boarding home in Braddock, PA
When I stayed in Mater Delarosa’s Church hall in New Orleans, LA with volunteers and elderly people displaced by Hurricane Katrina,
And in my Great Grandmother’s kitchen, in the lost paper mill town of Johnsonburg, PA, as Alzheimer’s gradually stole her awareness of time and sense of place.
Andrew Vavala
