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Patricia Hoffman
Three-plate color etching; Advanced Printmaking, BGSU; Line etch, aquatint, spit bite; 12″x9″; 2014 Patsy’s work developed out of a need to describe her profound, diagnosed anxiety. The results are dense, active compositions that at once reference tangles of neurons and obsessive doodling.
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Mariah Pickett
BFA Thesis Work (gallery shot); Senior Studio, BGSU; Multiple block linocut on frosted mylar; Approximately 36″x30″; 2014 Mariah began her process with digitally composed collages taken from online gossip magazines and other disposable media. She then translated the collages into linocuts that married contemporary design influences and stylized references to modern biological disorders.
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Corrinne Worden
BFA Thesis Work (with detail shot); Senior Studio, BGSU; Screenprint, quilted fabric, hand embroidery; Approximately 22″x18″; 2014 Corrinne’s work features screenprinted figures placed in a cozy though chaotic setting of quilted comfort and embroidered embellishment. The incorporation of crafting methods references the strong influence of a close, but brusque family on the artist’s understanding of…
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Various Artists
Dispatch Collaborative Exhibition; The Quilted Print, Frogman’s Print Workshops, University of Nebraska, Omaha; Woodcut on repurposed fabric with hand and machine stitching and crochet; Site responsive collaborative installation; 2017. This exhibition is the product of fourteen artist’s hard work over six days. The students designed and cut a woodblock, printed on various repurposed fabrics, and…
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Nikki Hagen
Theme: Drawing from the Eyes Out; Drawing 1, SEMO; Graphite; Approximately 24″x48″, 2019 Students are largely self-directed during this week-long project that corresponds with midterms, as I meet with their classmates about their midterm portfolio. The prompt asks the class to take what they have learned from observational drawing and perspective so far, and apply…
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Amanda Matlock
Theme: Drawing Into a Negative Space Drawing; AR100 Drawing 1, SEMO; 2019. Students began with a negative space contour drawing in order to consider the composition being created from the negative spaces at the edges. They were then asked to flesh out the object, describing the internal contours, value, and texture from the inside out.
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Heather Meadows
Theme: Downtown Cape Girardeau Drawing; Drawing I, SEMO; Graphite; 22″x30″; 2015 This drawing began as an extended plein air project on the streets of downtown Cape Girardeau. Students were then asked to continue the drawing from onsite photographs. Heather’s piece is in progress here, but it successfully illustrates her grasp of both sight measuring and…
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Courtney St. John
Theme: Allegorical Self-Portrait; AR202 Drawing 2: Figure Drawing, SEMO; 2019 This project acted as a practice run for the final Alter-ego portrait project. Students were assigned an object from the classroom’s collection of still-life materials (the column piece in this case). The object was chosen for its metaphorical relationship with the student. The artist was…
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Sydney Sharp
Theme: Alter-Ego Tryptic; AR202 Drawing 2: Figure Drawing, SEMO; 2019 Students were asked to create a series of drawings illustrating a narrative involving an idealized or unimagined version of themselves: the person they’d like to be, or the role they could have played. Students were expected to draw from life as much as possible. Sydney…
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Savannah Gourley
Theme: Multitudes; AR201 Color Composition, SEMO; 2021 This project asked students to create a psychological self-portrait using optical color mixing, using post-Impressionists and Chuck Close as a technical departure. They were also asked to develop a background pattern that used metaphor and semiotics to complement and add conceptual support to the portrait, á la Kehinde…
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Class Collaboration
Theme: Hit the Mark; AR201 Color Composition, SEMO; 2021 This project showed the potential of CMYK color application and how the layering of translucent colors can produce rich, complex results. Students were asked to carve a 6″ square of linoleum with concentric rings of varied patterns or textures. Quadrants were then chosen improvisationally and printed…
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Madison Ellers
Theme: The Unexamined Life; 3-D Foundations, SEMO; 2016. Madison focused on three species (Left to right: kudzu, dandelion, and stinkhorn mushrooms) that propagated quickly and invaded spaces. Notice the slimy texture of the mushroom achieved with hot glue.
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Alyscia Travis
Theme: Artifact; 3-D Foundations, SEMO; Plaster and found plants; Approximately 8″x9″x9″; 2017. Students carved an artifact or tool used by a fictional historical civilization or alien culture. Emphasis was placed on mass and texture. Alyscia’s planter acted as a model of massive agricultural systems for a tropical forest civilization that pulled water from pools below…
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Moneypit
Color Lithograph and Screenprint; 15″x22″; 2018 Moneypit , Why Choose?, and Preemie’s… employ multiple print disciplines to show the complexities of bringing another consumer onto an already overcrowded planet. My sons act as stand-ins for humanity’s impulsive nature in many of the provided artworks.
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Why Choose?
Photolithograph, stone lithograph, and etching; 21.75″x14.75″; 2019 Moneypit, Why Choose?, and Preemie’s… employ multiple print disciplines to show the complexities of bringing another consumer onto an already overcrowded planet. My sons act as stand-ins for humanity’s impulsive nature in many images in my portfolio.
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A Preemie’s First Viral Load
Linocut, collagraph, and pochoir; 14″x11″; 2020 Moneypit, Why Choose?, and Preemie’s… employ multiple print disciplines to show the complexities of bringing another consumer onto an already overcrowded planet. My sons act as stand-ins for humanity’s impulsive nature in many images in my portfolio.
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HomeBound
Screenprint; 21.5″x13.75″; 2021 This piece reflects on the privilege and cloistered comfort provided from a somewhat slower pace of life at the beginning of the pandemic, while acknowledging the chaos outside. The crocheted “roots” show the welcome connection to home, one that was at once a reprieve and a burden when I felt called to…
