Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
This is Florida Gulf Coast University.
ANDREW: It was just a few short months ago that I met with this group
as they began to sketch out their ideas for their senior project exhibition.
They worked hard in their studios, refining and polishing the work that they created.
The work they've done represents an awareness of self and the world around them.
They've pushed themselves, they've worked hard, and they have polished this work
for the presentation that you see here tonight.
JESSICA: My name is Jessica Dehen, and the body of work that I'm exhibiting tonight
is titled Contemplation.
My whole life, I've been creating drawings of things as they exist in the physical world
and trying to replicate them, this obsession with photorealism.
So this was an opportunity for me to explore something that's personal to me.
I really wanted to explore what color means to me on a more spiritual level,
and hopefully encourage the viewer to figure out what color means to them as well.
ROBERT: My name's Robert Pavon. My series is Sinful Nature.
Basically, I was thinking of choice and sin, and trying to combine them using representational art.
Obviously, the figure is one of my favorite things to do.
MARIANA: My name's Mariana Griswold, and my project is called Repositioning Strategy.
I am a dual major in Art and Marketing, and so what I decided to do
was put myself in a real-life situation, in which I would pretend to work for a company,
and completely redesign the logo, the slogan, and create three separate magazine layouts.
And in order to make it as real as possible, I actually had one of my mentors at the company
pretend to be the client and consistently guide me throughout the process.
MARISA: My name is Marisa Schreiber, and my project is called Instincts of Abandonment,
and it's about abandonment issues that people go through and our instinctive responses to them.
There are psychological and physiological reactions to them.
I used my colors to try to display the emotions that I went through
while painting each and every one of my pieces.
I also have a matching print that is a tiger silhouette,
and it is supposed to coincide with the painting and show
an outline of the body language of the tiger for how you're feeling.
JULIANNA: My name is Julianna Javier, and the title of my exhibition is Oceanic Connection.
My senior project is about the interconnection between the environment and its subjects.
I produced a series of six pen and ink drawings
featuring multiple marine animals as a part of the environment
and the environment as a part of them.
Through the transparency of the drawing and the dependency of the animals on the environment,
the environment then becomes a part of the subject.
Therefore, however we impact the environment will also affect its subjects.
MEGAN: My name is Megan Mosallem, and my piece is titled Process of Discovery: A Portrait of Self.
The ideas embodied within my work are surrounded by psychological and philosophical concepts
that I've been studying through the course of this semester.
As I explored different methods, I shortly realized how I was painting and what I was painting
became my own form of meditation.
Each surface and layer became instinctive and spontaneous.
The ring on the surface illustrates the unifying element with the layers of my soul.
The result of my piece is not only a portrait of self, but has become a self-discovery.
KATE: My project is called I Want to Ride My Bicycle.
The whole project is a celebration of the role that bicycling has in my life.
It's about the pursuit of happiness, and it's about getting on your bike
and escaping the pressures of the world
and just finding something that we love to do,
something that makes us happy, and going after that.
My work is very bright and colorful. It might even be, like, childish.
But that's all intentional. Just like a child saying,
"I wanna do what I wanna do," I'm saying,
I want to do what makes me happy. I want to ride my bicycle,
and I want to ride it where I like.
JACK: My name is Jack Povlitz, and the title of my work is called The Wary Caretaker.
As a kid growing up, I've always loved the holiday of Halloween.
I kind of noticed over the years that Halloween has become a little bit commercial.
This senior project gave me that opportunity to explore the
true spirit of the holiday and what it represents.
through both traditionalism, some symbolism, and of course, the surreal.
The fact that it was a Celtic holiday from 8th century.
I wanted to try and reintroduce the original design to what it is.
MARY: My name is Mary McBeath. My show title is called Spirals Inspired.
I was first inspired by the early Celtic art.
So I started to draw the spirals and use the compass,
and it just kind of took me into this time warp of creating
all these images inspired by different things.
Upon doing the work itself, I researched that, to the Celts, the spirals actually represent
the soul's evolution and personal transformation, among many things.
That has been my experience here at FGCU: that personal transformation.
ANDREW: Thank you for your support, and thank you for being here this evening.