SENIOR THESIS EXHIBITION
MAY 10, 2019
The Senior Thesis Exhibition is the culminating experience of the studio art major. The exhibition is a group exhibition required of all senior majors and takes place in the Tang Museum. The purpose of the exhibition is to celebrate and assess the accomplishments of art majors in studio practice.
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Demonstrating maturity in thought, execution, and presentation. Planning to exhibit a select group of artworks that represent the highest level of quality, depth of inquiry, and best critical judgment that students achieved during the last year of work in their advanced courses at Skidmore.
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I presented 5 total works:
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Hemeroscopium = Yellow Brass, African Blackwood, Walnut, Glass Vintage Bulb, architectural/metalworking take on a lamp [Funded by the Student Opportunity Fund]
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Arkhitekton = drawing Pencil on BFK Rives corresponding to Hemeroscopium (light)
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Oculus = cribbage board drawing Pencil on BFK Rives
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Ingress = doors Walnut, Bronze Funded by the Student Opportunity Fund
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CXXI = cribbage board Red Brass, White Brass, Yellow Brass, Red Brass, Copper, Cherry Wood, (also look at Cribbage Board in Casting page on this website)
I also handcrafted my own pedestals at a unique height to emphasize detail and encourage onlookers to view the pieces resting on them straight on rather than from above - Directly correlating the smaller sculpture pieces to the corresponding drawings behind - Welded steel that is then blackened to blend with the dark flooring.
Creatively Mathematical | Mathematically Creative
By bringing energy and power into a medium such as metal and wood, and using the
synergy between design and mathematics, the pieces transcend practical purpose and assume the status of artworks. Working toward an architectural, mechanico-artistic style, my primary focus for my work revolves around my interests in the "creatively mathematical” and the “mathematically creative.” Exhibiting the harmony between the fastidiousness, clarity, and clandestinity of mathematics with the abstract, enigmatic, atmospheric cauldron of art, this harmony generates a distinguished style in which the organization of line and space presents sculpture as a delineation and contour of form. Contrasting simple sketches with technical drawings accentuates the importance of line weight and what information collections of lines hold. My anatomical forms, three-footed bases, and design models suggest a symmetry found through line and delineation. Seemingly fusing technical expertise with artistic flair while continuing to celebrate the raw qualities of art and mathematics in an honest, expressive manner, the works chosen to be displayed form a unity between opposing forces, proudly embracing the contradicting elements, and exuding compatibility in the antithesis.
