Artist Talk

In this current body of work, Jeanine Hill utilizes the memory of clay to build objects that become records of action. The same fluency that a drawn line is able to bring to a surface, she is able to articulate through the creation of form. As we experience the world, we gradually create narrative memory

Amanda Burnham’s drawings and large, site specific installations (which are also drawings) begin as anecdotal moments either recorded or observed in the city around her, and frequently evolve to emphasize the darkly comic and absurd. Installations are (usually) composed of hundreds of quick, gestural acrylic and flashe paint sketches made with a fat brush that

Elizabeth Alexander is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculptures and installations made from paper and found objects. She is a member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery and was named “Best Artist of Boston” for 2014 by Improper Bostonian magazine. Her work has been highlighted and reviewed by publications such as Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, Boston Magazine,

Virginia Derryberry’s large-scale oil-on-canvas figure paintings blend narrative elements from mythology and alchemy, the forerunner of modern science. (255)

Patrick Earl Hammie’s paintings explore the tension between power and vulnerability and attempt to re-image the modern male. Through body language and narrative, Hammie reinvents and remixes ideal beauty and heroic nudity and examines how male artists have historically represented themselves and the nude. (257)

Form, Function, and Futility: An Exploration in Architecture and Identity Morgan Craig’s large-scale paintings of dilapidated, abandoned architectural spaces provide a tangible framework through which facets of society can be expressed. He considers the structures as repositories and memorials to the workers who spent a large portion of their lives within the now-spent buildings and

Jason Lahr’s paintings combine darkly comic texts with appropriated images, creating shifting narratives of working class male identity as influenced by popular culture.\ Jason Lahr: Signal Jammer Monday, August 19, 2013 Isabella Cannon Room, Elon University   (190)

Text, video and appropriated imagery meet at the intersection of delirium and logos, fluidity and stasis, memory and experience — the imaginary filament between an utterance and the word. Colleen Choquette-Raphael ‘Write/Writhe’ – Feb. 18 2013 Yeager Recital Hall (184)

Jelena Berenc studies three artist parallels of life. Berenc’s endurance drawings document her fundamental life experiences through three parallels: Being as Such, They am, and Being. (409)