Browsing by Subject "Printmaking"

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    Bienvenidos A Indianapolis
    (2011) Gutierrez, Rogelio; Winship, Andrew
    My story begins in Jalisco, Mexico where Rogelio and Maria Del Carmen were born and would eventually fall in love. Rogelio is from a small town called Santillan, Jalisco. He is one of twelve brothers and sisters that were raised on his father’s farm. Farm life would prove to be difficult; it involved harvesting seasonal produce like corn and sugar cane, and required the herding of sheep, goats, and cows. They had no choice, if they did not work, they did not eat. One can imagine with such demanding responsibilities as a child, very little room was left for education and the opportunity for a brighter tomorrow. Rogelio was always ambitious and believed he would one day leave the farm for good, out of all of his brothers and sisters, he received the highest education by completing the ninth grade, but his father demanded him to quit in order to meet his obligations to both the farm and his family
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    Connectedness of Existence
    (2014) Ingram, Margaret Elizabeth; Setser, Meredith
    I am drawn to the most human of things, the ordinary everyday experiences that connect us. I seek to remember pieces of life that are easily forgotten or left behind. It is within the constructs of interdependence that my work explores the poetic space of a shared human experience. These connections are made evident through the suggestion of memory, identity and the idea of the viewer as collaborator. I seek to create a narrative in which the viewer becomes aware of change and discovery within the behavior of an individual self. In my most recent work, the idea of the viewer has visually and metaphorically manifested into the act of drawing a circle. The shape of the circle is meant to be representative of the nature of experience within the intricacies of both the enlightened mind as well as the confused mind. It is a mutual circle or a circle of togetherness where the connectedness of our existence becomes indisputable. The circle in the beginning and ending, presence and absence. The viewer, then, becomes a silent collaborator who quietly charges my work as I search for social understanding of both the viewer and myself. In this way the viewer becomes a willing participant as well as the subject.
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    CONSIDER THIS MY THESIS
    (2010) Pazzol, Matthew; Morrison, David
    Life is often compared to a maze. Each decision is a path that leads to another path, towards some goal and, inevitably, an exit. But the puzzle of the maze is invented, and life is real. My art is the maze of how I see my own life's decisions map around me. It is presented as an entry into my own thoughts. It is offered as an exercise in sharing another's vision. If you take my hand and walk through it, you will experience how I choose one obstacle over the other. You can follow my steps and tread my course with me.
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    Evoking Stillness
    (2016) Taylor, Miranda; Setser, Meredith
    The intricate patterns and movements of the Basket Starfish spreading its arms and swaing in the gentle currents of the sea, the glimmer of light through the canopy of a forest shining light upon the pollen and dust riding in the breeze, the tessellations of a Night Blooming Cereus on a warm summer eve; nature is deeply profound and dynamic yet effortless and unselfconscious. Here rests the stillness of mind I seek through my creations. Materials reflect the colors, textures, and movements observed in coral reefs, forests, and botanical gardens; the deep red of the Dragon's Heart Hibiscus and Heliconia, the textures of the flowering palms, and the gentle flow of the current under the surface of the ocean. By integrating aspects of Taoist philosophy and transformative meditative techniques into my studio practice, I utilize my unselfconscious state of mind to create works that reflect the subtleties found in nature to evoke contemplation and stillness of the minds of viewers.
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    Indy Postcard Collector, October 2023
    (Indianapolis Postcard Club, 2023-10) Hook , Sara Anne
    The October 2023 issue of Indy Postcard Collector, published by the Indianapolis Postcard Club, edited by Sara Anne Hook, Professor Emerita.
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    The Institute of Habits and Weirdness
    (2013-05) Senibaldi, Dominic; Morrison, David
    I draw inspiration from mundane activities such as shaving, shredding documents, waking up to an alarm clock and clipping fingernails. I use these activities as a springboard to explore the meaning behind habits. Are habits a human need? Do we place such importance on our daily repetitive activities that they become rituals? Do mundane activities help us to ignore the meaningless of existence, or give purpose to our existence? These are questions I actively attempt to answer with my art works.
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    intimid
    (2014-05) Wierzbicki, Liz; Morrison, David
    My work considers the variegated terrain of love’s complicated language. By shifting from physical to virtual, material to ephemeral through working in sculpture and video, I consider the physical and emotional qualities of love and desire. Through reflection on the impermanence of love, I explore feminine sensuality, attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, instability and endurance.
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    Introspected
    (2010-05) Custer, Jacob; McDaniel, Craig
    The dichotomy between expression and interpretation allows communication to happen. Communication is a sensual experience. I approach art as a visual language and I use intuitive constructions of carved wood, engraved acrylic, and light projections as an expression of a personal interpretation of the introspected internal dialogue between my mind, my hands, my eyes, and the materials. The hand is an extension of the mind and the materials are an extension of the hand. As an artist I use the relationship between mind and hand to give physical form to ephemeral streams of thought. This body of work attempts to use the dichotomy of internal versus external that is woven into the human condition, as I understand it, through the construction of wooden armatures that fuse with scribed, shaped clear acrylic plastic forms. Clear acrylic that has been scribed by an engraving burin is melted and mounted onto the wooden armatures. Heating the acrylic softens it and allows for it to bend to the contours of the wooden structures the result is a drawing that has been transformed from a two-dimensional image to a three-dimensional object thus, the image exists in a physical space not an imitated or simulated space.
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    Let's Plan Our Escape
    (2010-05) Mason, Jill Marie; Winship, Andrew; McDaniel, Craig; Jamie, Pawlus
    I have one sister, Jenny, and most of our childhood was spent living in the country. With few other peers nearby to play with, we were best friends. Over time, we grew to be a very imaginative duo. I have many memories of playing pretend. It started early on. My earliest recollection of this activity is a happy one that is most likely triggered by a photograph of Jenny and myself. We are standing in front of the fireplace. Jennyʼs arm is around my shoulder and mine is around her back. We are both smiling. The photograph provides a three quarter view. We are each wearing a ruffled bonnet. Under Jennyʼs is a red yarn wig. The bonnets are tightly tied around our chins. Our faces are decorated with exaggerated freckles in a classic three points in a triangle fashion. We are wearing red, long sleeved frocks overlaid with white jumpers that have green diamond appliqués around the waist. Underneath these rompers we are sporting white knickers. Some may think that we are supposed to be Raggedy Ann, but those in the know (people, especially women, born in the mid 70s to early 80s) would recognize the garb as belonging to Strawberry Shortcake. Our mom fashioned these costumes for us on her sewing machine. She always nurtured and fostered our desire to pretend to be other characters or people and the creativity that came out of it.
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    Liminal States
    (2011-05) Warner, Melanie Christine; Winship, Andrew
    My life is influenced by decisions that I have made. They are informed by my past and cultivate my future. I inquisitively dig through past experiences to comprehend my choices in life. Whether they are painful, mundane, or pleasurable they facilitate a change, a metamorphosis. And so, change is nestled within my decisions and within the present, in between my past and my future. Whether decisions are guided by intuition, animal instinct, the subconscious, or the conscious, they manipulate who I was and whom I will be. With my art, I search to understand where learned behavior, thought processes, and repeated patterns of decision making may occur. This investigation is not always easy or clear due to the emotional impact change can induce.