Exhibition Date: October 16, 2020
Class 101
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Family Matters
- Jonathan Coventry
Recently, I came to the realization that I am now closer to my thirties than I am to my teen years. Seeing me and my loved ones grow older made me want to learn more about my family history, and the best way to learn it was directly from the voices of my family.
"Family Matters" is two contrasting self-portraits that represent my background: the Anglo-Saxon roots on my father's side and the Ashkenazi Jewish roots on my mother's side. The first portrait portrays me as a 17th century noble, as my father’s family can be traced back to the nobility of Coventry, England. The second portrait portrays me as a produce peddler in the expressionistic style of the late 19th/early 20th century, as my mother's family were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to America around that time and sold produce (more specifically, bananas).
Materials: Digital Painting
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Eye Is The Window To The Soul
- Hannah Lee
Is the eye really a window to the soul? Does the eye really show who we are? This project asks these questions. The idea came to me when I was looking at the photos of myself that I took a few months ago. I felt the person in the picture isn’t me because some different feelings were coming from my face. I kept thinking about what that is and it reminded me of a quote, ‘The eye is the window to the soul’ and that made me think my eyes might be different from now and then. This project is following a general timeline showing how my eyes changed through time and the feelings that I felt. However, even though this project is asking questions if the precept is right or wrong it is not giving you the answer, but it leads you to ask yourself a question. ‘Is the eye really a window to the soul.’
Materials: digital video
Sensations
- Kyra Biemans
Sensations is an unique artistic project using raw eggs as the medium. These pieces of art utilize the traditional techniques of Pysanka, also known as Ukrainian Easter Eggs, but they trend far from the traditional style of design. My main goal with this project was to challenge myself by trying something new as well as by creating my own designs for it. With the current state of the world, I have been forced to spend an usual amount of time alone. I’ve found that this has caused my emotions to be amplified. Therefore, I took this project as an opportunity to express what I’ve been experiencing internally. These four eggs were designed based off four emotions: anger, lust, distress, and joy.
Materials: Beeswax, kitska, egg dye, candle
Distress & Joy
Anger & Lust
Skyline
- Yukun Lin
Speaking of cities, people will never forget to discuss environmental protection. With the development of science and technology, people have found that these two things are increasingly inseparable. Only with the development of cities can there be better technologies to practice recycling and environmental protection. If not, cities will eventually be destroyed. My work also combines these two concepts. The silhouette of the city makes the natural scenery no longer monotonous, and the city built with environmentally friendly materials makes it look more majestic. When I was building this sculpture, whenever I thought about how this recyclable material should shape the silhouette of a city, the relationship between them made me feel that our real-life city was built in this way. Recycling, every link is indispensable and has a harmonious relationship.
Materials: Wood, Plastic, Can, Paper cup
SWEEP IT
- Lynn Zhang
"Your gross hair is everywhere."
"Go clean it."
Sometimes our daily communication and lives are full of violence. The origin of violence is that people ignore each other's feelings and needs and blame each other for conflict - at least for most reasons; whether it is verbal, mental, or physical violence, or family, tribal, and ethnic conflict. This project is made by collecting hair scattered all over the house. Most females will leave their hair on the wall during a bath. Some of them creating drawings with the hair on the wall. Loosing hair is hard to control for females. Others sometimes blame them. This project wants to convey a message to the audience that violent communication will turn into a sharp sword to hurt others. The accustomed brute way of thinking and problem-solving is quite harmful.
Materials: Human hair on plastic board, picture displayed on a TV
Isolation
- Oscar Lau
I am trying to demonstrate people's lives and situations in the home at particular times, and this extends to the fact that it is the responsibility of each of us to insulate ourselves, to protect our own situation and protect others. A change in our psychology and behavior from the beginning to the end, for which we guard ourselves and others. In the face of this special situation, how we should protect ourselves and self-isolation caused by a series of problems will also be a problem we need to face. Until the end of isolation and the complete release of the self, this series of psychological changes forces us to know how to protect ourselves. The world will be a better place if people, regardless of their nationality, perform such a duty together
Materials: digital filmed footage
The Adolescent Years
- David Diaz
These 3 pieces of art, hand drawn and colored from scratch, are 3 pivotal images with a message behind them. All 3 images relate to each other with the first telling a story about a young man's goals in life, he is in a thinking state, I call this art "Pensive". The second being a campfire, I call it "Unity" because when we go camping with our families or friends and sit around the campfire, we are together as equals. The last one showing 2 fists fist bumping each other represent father/son relationship, that no matter how old you are, you will always be 12 years old to your parents. I like telling stories behind my art because it captivates the looker. I also like to make my art nice and bright so that it stands out more. The pictures I draw and color are from real life.
Materials: paper and pencil crayons.
One Step
- Gaby Agnes
Masks are mandatory now because of Covid-19. We need masks to protect ourselves from other people’s droplets. But did you ever realize that this condition also affects sea life. How come it’s going to affect sea life? I don’t think we are ready for this pandemic so our system of handling waste, especially medical waste is pretty horrible. With my painting, I try to show people that this issue really need to be solved as soon as possible. It’s as simple as don’t throw masks on the beach when you can’t find a trash bin. You can just keep it in your pocket and wait until you find a trash bin. Masks in my painting as seen in daylight are a symbol that they are really necessary things. On the other hand, in the night light we can see that actually there’s a lot of sea life being trapped in the middle of the masks. I use sea turtles and fish as symbols of sea life because sea turtles, especially in my country, are already endangered. For me, fish are the most important for the food cycle of other sea creatures.
Materials: paint, glow in the dark paint, canvas
Blocks
- Eli Cameron
Originally driven by my desire to revisit my past of working with my hands I began working on this project simply to put distance between myself and the computer screen, a place we all find ourselves more and more these days.
I was then pointed towards the traditional Japanese art style of kintsugi, the practice of repairing broken ceramics, traditionally saki cups, with gold. Upon further research into the style I was drawn to the philosophy behind it. That being " the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece" and "Kintsugi reveals how to heal and shows you that you are better with your golden cracks".
This project is my attempt to imitate that using natural wood.
As with most things the project itself never ran smoothly, but in my mind that simply is in keeping with the ideal of kintsugi.
Materials: Cedar Wood Blocks
Scream
- Gabriel Jacome-Koblitz
“Scream” is a two pieces acrylic on canvas painting related to the world we are living in today. Initially I chose this form of art because I felt it matches the idea of not feeling comfortable about the situation of the world and the use of powerful colours and could express the feelings I had towards this year in comparison to past years. The main idea of the painting is representing the past years and the year of 2020. This year COVID-19 showed its power, political issues, global warming, police fatalities; a year that people showed their voice even with a mask on their faces. On the other hand, we have the past years. Years that we didn’t have to wear a mask for our protection. The world is changing in many different ways and nowadays wearing a mask to take a bus or skytrain never felt so natural.
Materials: canvas and acrylic paint
