| Art Students Head "Into Abstraction" |
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On regularly scheduled days, chair and associate professor of the art department Michael Pittari meets with four students from the Art & Art History program to discuss common themes and paint in a common workspace. The schedule may be the only sign of order in a space where artists use lines, shapes, colors, and strokes in any way they feel necessary to express themselves.
The project is titled “Into Abstraction: Experimentation and Dialogue in the Painting Studio,” and the resulting works will be displayed around campus following the project’s conclusion later this summer. It was made possible through the The Edward H. Arnold and Jeanne Donlevy Arnold Program for Experiential Education.
“My collection is based on water. It focuses on the different phases of water,” said Brittany Flood ’13. “This one I’m working on is about ice, and another I’m working on is based on steam. I’m trying to represent the different aspects of water. It can represent cleansing and change.”
“I’m looking at the universe and sort of how it transforms,” Julia Hurley ’14 said. “My first piece that I’m working on is about order. I want it to be very structured with a lot of parallel lines and everything fitting together like a puzzle. My next piece is going to be more chaotic and about destruction and where to begin again.”
Abstraction, which is often based around nonrepresentational figures and shapes, lends itself well to grand themes like transformation, and Pittari, Flood, Hurley, Alena Langan ’14, and Taylor Saraiva ’14, are each embracing the chance to showcase their creativity alongside peers sharing the same themes.
For additional information on this and other current Arnold Grant programs, click here.
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