Undergraduate portfolios
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Large woodcut after Matthias Grunewald’s Isenheim altarpiece and Ukiyo-e prints. -
Large print: plate lithography, relief, monotype. Imagery from Giulio Romano painting, character from Japanese show. -
Foam, wood, plaster, masonry waterproofer, fountain pump, and box wine. A sculpture of the Lamb of God from Revelations. -
Drypoint on zinc. Iconology of the Eucharist is combined with imagery taken from Rembrandt's "Three Crosses." -
Etching with softground. Modern ideas of destruction and ancient ideas of creation are combined here. -
Etching and aquatint. Birdo throws eggs at you. Early Indian paintings were used for inspiration.
Statement
Art is not created in a vacuum; art is the continuation of a narrative. The narrative of time draws together the least likely of bedfellows, from Mantegna to Mister Rogers, from Jupiter to Jesus to John Wilkes Booth; mythologies of culture and religion are macrocosms of personal anecdotes and childhood cartoons. I draw on conventions and iconography of Renaissance and Baroque art to produce imagery that can capture ideas of both a modern and pre-modern aesthetic. The juxtaposition of ideas from distant places and times presents absurdist imagery that leads us to question the validity of contemporary values and the legitimacy of the “Modern.”
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