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Artist Talk | Jeanine Hill

Art and Art History March 7, 2017

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 […]

Word on the Street | Amanda Burnham

Art and Art History February 9, 2017

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 […]

I May Not Be A Lion | Elizabeth Alexander

Art and Art History September 7, 2016

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, […]

Head Over Heels | Lisa Walcott

Art and Art History March 13, 2016

Lisa Walcott is an installation artist and kinetic sculptor based in Holland, Michigan. In her “Head Over Heels” presentation, she illustrates her passion for photographic art to create a setting and evoke emotion. She constructs scenes with the goal of creating “surreal spaces” like the ones seen in her favorite fashion magazines. (92)

A Game of Stones | Holly R. Silvers

Art and Art History September 29, 2015

In the 12th century, the use of memory techniques spread from orators and clerics to include parishioners, who used them when passing by the village church to recall the gist of sermons or moral lessons they had heard. Sculptural and architectonic elements on 12th century rural French churches show distinct parallels with known textual and […]

Third Nature | Virginia Derryberry

Art and Art History April 14, 2014

Virginia Derryberry’s large-scale oil-on-canvas figure paintings blend narrative elements from mythology and alchemy, the forerunner of modern science. (230)

Significant Other | Patrick Earl Hammie

Art and Art History March 17, 2014

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. (249)

Form, Function, and Futility: An Exploration in Architecture and Identity | Morgan Craig

Art and Art History September 30, 2013

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 […]