Christopher Farrell

During my research on David Carson, I began to make the association that the lure of his work was due to his breaking free of the traditional grid layout design. He broke into uncharted territory, applying fresh intuitive designs to fields that needed to distinguish themselves; significantly contributing to his success as a graphic designer. Attempting an exploration of new territory myself, I decided to bring a touch of design savvy to the world of guitar amplification advertisements, those of Fuchs Audio Technology in particular. As I collected my thoughts, I tried to move away from my typical design process and approach the piece as Carson would. Using Carson’s method as a basis, I hope to have achieved something that will provide Fuchs Audio with a look to match the sound that has made the company what it is today.

For my senior exhibition I have created a series of abstract narratives depicting four mythic Celtic gods. Through interrelationships of color and form and the play between other formal relationships, I have tried to find the right balance of light and dark, depth and flatness, to create intensity and movement in these works. Playing with form and color to express their intensity, I have been searching for the most satisfying combinations of these elements, hoping to convey their purpose to the viewer as they travel across the canvas. Inspired by Howard David Johnson and Georgia O’Keeffe, I am drawing on their works, combining aspects of their respective subjects, color, and intensity with that of my own style.

Arwen Fitzgerald

Jennifer Mustachio

A senior of 2010, Jennifer is an artist who focuses on integrating fiber art with her illustration technique. After collecting years of discarded paper, she is finally displaying her accumulations in a stitched display, while touching on themes of identity, mortality, isolation, and decay through the human form composed on these papers. The installation tries to find a new language between sculpture and illustration. Her thesis focused on Egon Schiele’s quality of line while working with Kiki Smith’s conceptual elements. Her work views human nature from an unusual perspective by commenting on our dependency on material items to prove our existence. The work itself changes not only with gravity and time, but with the actual viewer stepping over the “garbage” and participating in a dialog by leaving their index on the work.

The paintings in this exhibit explore the formal relationships of form and color, and how they relate to each other across the surface of the canvas to create and organize a compositional unity. The literal subject matter in each painting is only a vehicle to explore color and form with the goal of rendering the formal relationships contained in each subject. Each painting focuses on the intrinsic elements of hue, tone, shape, design and not the literal meaning of the objects. I also hope my paintings engage the viewer in a more profound level and not just the formal. I would like my paintings to be visually, spiritually, emotionally and intellectually satisfying to the viewer.

Munmeet Kaur

Sabrina Georges

The intention of this exhibition is to engage the viewer in a conversation with my paintings both formally, through relationships of color and form, and narratively through subject matter. The work is not intended to demand attention on a large scale. It is small and personal to draw the viewer into an intimate relationship with each piece. The narratives come from my life and experiences, and are presented in this intimate way to draw the viewer into a personal relationship with the stories they contain. Two artists who had an important influence on my exhibit were Oskar Schlemmer and Georgia O’Keeffe. Schlemmer for the way he reduced his subjects to geometric shapes with heavy shadows to create space, volume and depth, and O’Keeffe who focused on color to paint her larger-than-life flowers on small canvases.