Hello! My name is Sydney and I’m an Art senior with a minor in art history. I’m really into exploring identity, memory, and experiences in my art. I draw a lot of inspiration from my personal life having lived in various regions of the country and growing up biracial. Most of my work consists of digital art, oil paintings, and more recently mixed media. I enjoy the challenge of exploring new media and getting out of my comfort zones. This semester I’m focusing on feminine relationships and experiences that are both universal and personal. I’m excited to be making a lot of work this semester that will allow me to explore new techniques and ideas.

Hello! My name is Adriana and I am a Senior wrapping up my last semester here. I am majoring in Psychology with a minor in Art and Chican/x-Latin/x studies. I am planning on combining theses studies to pursue a career in Art therapy. Art has always been an important thing in my life and I wanted to continue practicing it which is why I chose to take on the minor. What began as a hobby in elementary school soon turned into a creative outlet. Drawing always me to escape the chaos of life and focus on the little details. Drawing to me is soothing and a stress reliever…except for when I don’t get the product I am working towards … that’s when I know I need to take a break lol. I am hoping to get to share these experiences with others in the near future to help aid them on their healing journeys.

Contemporary artist, Kara Walker, is best known for her artwork about identity (sex, race, gender, etc.) and its relationship with violence. She attended the Atlanta College of Art and later got her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Walker’s career was steady throughout the 90’s and really took off after her exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, premiered at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2007.

This exhibition (pictured above) featured images of what Walker imaged to be what life was like on plantations in the south before the civil war happened. I can’t find photos of the full exhibition, but there were more than one hundred of these silhouette images collages together to create a larger narrative.

Walker’s other popular work includes a gigantic sugar sculpture which resides in an abandoned Domino’s Sugar Factory. The work is a response to our modern day relationship with slavery as Americans. It’s also meant to comment on the mythologizing of black women’s bodies.

Overall, Kara Walker is an important contemporary artist and I chose her because I feel like everybody should know about he work, especially Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, going into the collage project.

Citations:

https://www.karawalkerstudio.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2sedoeOiB8

https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/kara-walker-my-complement-my-enemy-my-oppressor-my-love

Howdy, I’m Andre Covian (he/him), A senior graphic design student. Many of my interests align with my competitive nature (Chess, Esports, etc.)

I’m taking “drawing into space” to explore new mediums outside digital art. For a long time, I have been working in a digital space for a lot of my time being creative. From photo editing/illustration /printing, but I’ve never had the opportunity to explore more traditional drawing with ink and charcoal, I hope that I’ll be able to take away new practices of experimental approaches to visual making, and take them into digital practice. 

Hi! My name is Reagan Stevens. My major is Animation and I have a minor in Art. I’m a freshman, and this is my 2nd semester here. I actually didn’t know what my major was going to be when I was still in senior year of high school. However, watching animated movies, shows, and YouTube videos made me realize my passion for drawing and animation. If I had to pick a favorite medium, it would be pencils, alcohol markers, and sharpie markers. I’m excited to start some amazing projects in here, the only thing I’m going to worry about though is how fast each one will be due by. But I’ll try my best!

Hi my name is Juli Quiroga. My major is Psychology and I have a minor in Art. I will be graduating this semester! My favorite medium is acrylic paint and I love using bright, saturated colors mixed with patterns in many of my paintings. I love how vibrant acrylic paint can be. When I was younger my Dad would always draw me photos and sort of taught me how to draw. I used to draw with pencil a lot more than I do now, so I am excited to get back into that side of art. I’m really excited to take this class and work on the upcoming projects. One thing that I am a bit nervous about is the fast paced aspect of the class but I think it will push me to become more creative.

Hello! My name is Beth Davis and I’m a Sophomore in my second semester at St. Edwards. Creating and implementing art into my world has been consistent throughout my entire life- I enjoy experimenting with all the various possibilities of creation and experiencing as many artistic pursuits as possible. I am an art major most interested in discovering ways to combine different types of media to create something completely unexpected/unfamiliar. Lately I’ve been exploring collage work using recycled material like magazines and old scraps, and I like to follow intuition to create pieces that reflect raw emotion.

Last semester I took a visual studies class that really opened my mind towards experimentation in different types of media like photography and photoshop, which I had never used previously. I have also begun to regularly use digital programs like procreate, which make experimentation super easy and versatile. Overall, I’m looking forward to this semester in Drawing in Space, and I’m excited to continue experimenting with art.

Damien Hirst is an english artist who rose to fame during the 1990’s. At the beginning of his career he was a painter and attended Goldsmiths College in London. Over the years Hirst has become somewhat controversial. This started with a series of work that brought a great deal of attention and often also criticism as the work displayed various animals such as a shark and cow submerged in formaldehyde. Hirst has also faced controversy throughout his career as some of his works have been called out for plagiarism.

However the series of work that relates to the idea of multiples are his spot paintings. These spot paintings are a stark contrast to Hirst’s previous works with dead animals. These paintings relate to the idea of multiples as the same subject matter is used in each one while the color and arrangement of the spots are what changes in each of the paintings. Hirst estimates that he has created a total of 1400 spot paintings. He first started the series in 1988 where he created the first five works on his own, but soon after began employing his assistants to help create the works as they are quite labor intensive. Below are some examples of Hirst’s spot paintings.

Cineole © Damien Hirst 2004

Dequalinium Chloride © Damien Hirst 2016

Citations

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Damien-Hirst

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/damien-hirst-2308

https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-damien-hirst/articles/damien-hirst-spot-paintings

Hi! My name is Meg (Margaret) and I am a graphic design senior. My interests this past year that I wish to explore more is the diverse ways in which femininity are expressed and felt and how those experiences can create unity between peoples. I hope to work on created pieces that are out of comfort zone, expressive, and highly experimental. I find that a lot of my artwork is done with a preconceived notion of how work should be made and I am excited to move beyond that and get a little wild.

Yoshio Ikezaki is a Japanese artist and papermaker born in Kitakyushu City in 1953.  He then went on to receive a Bachelor of Art and Master of Fine Arts from Florida State University in painting before moving back to Japan to study traditional Japanese papermaking. For six years, Ikezaki studied and experimented with traditional Japanese papermaking under master papermakers, Shigemi and Shigeyuki Matsuo. He would later employ what he had learned to produce his own paper for his paintings and sculptures, giving him complete control over the paper’s thickness and fiber distribution; this allowed him to take into account the Sumi-ink’s reactions to varying fiber ratios while manufacturing paper for his paintings.

Ikezaki’s Sumi-ink paintings are deeply associated with his childhood memories of the  Kitakyushu Island landscapes he saw. He sees and paints these landscapes as “slow-moving photographs” where it displays all the natural elements of the landscape to his audience. Ikezaki’s art has a mysterious and evocative quality that stems from his use of his own Sumi-ink, which gives his work movement and vitality and moves viewers as they look around it.

Ikezaki’s work utilizes Ma which is defined to be a “Japanese aesthetic term to designate an artificially placed interval in time and space which include meaningful voids created by the deliberate use of blank space.” This balance and use of positive and negative space is an essential, prevalent theme throughout his paintings and sculptures.

The Green Wonderland

Sumi-ink and Japanese watercolor on paper, 30 x 40 inches, 2018

The Winter Wonderland

Sumi-ink and Japanese watercolor on paper, 30 x 40 inches, 2018