Final

Artist Statement

          I have been working on my senior thesis project for the past couple months and these are images of two of the 4 spaces I am currently finishing up designing.  The top two are of a restaurant and bar and the bottom three are of the first floor lounge.  I decided to develop a plan for an equestrian center based near Baltimore, Maryland.  Based on my research I found that there is a need for a horse park in this area and it would be a viable business,  Some of my goals with the design of these spaces was to make them not feel like the typical barn aesthetic you would normally see and establish an inviting space that would encourage anyone from beginners to well established professional horse back riders to come and compete in this complex. All of these images shown below are still a work in progress and are made with one of the 3D software programs we use in this major.

Artist Statement

I have recently been working on my senior studio thesis project for the end of the year. I decided to design a high end hotel because that has always been an interest of mine. Hotel design is what sparked my interest in interior architecture.

After doing some research I decided to design my hotel in the South Beach Miami. This is a diverse area with a big entertainment scene and it’s know for having a lot of art deco design but more recently they’ve been looking for ways to make the design of the area more contemporary. I went with a minimalist approach with accents of bright colors on the certain walls and furniture. 

Statement Petersilge

So, first off, I’m sorry this is late. I got distracted with the show opening yesterday and this post just slipped my mind. I hope this can still function for points.

My work in this class ended up focusing around the concept of beauty and seduction, and how it can be made dissonant when slightly altered. At the beginning of the term, we watched an art21 segment by Josiah McElheny, and a particular sentence resonated with me, and became a strong influence in how I worked with glass. He describes beauty as being “about a kind of recognition of or sympathy to a kind of order or set of ideas or a set of relationships.”

With this in mind, I set out to make work that questioned that order he speaks of; to have some elements align with our ideas of beauty, but have others question or distort that assertion. The method of the “exquisite corpse” was rich ground for me to explore with the ideas I had in mind, and ended up with an en memoriam piece. The beauty and preservation we associate with our dead is a working example of how our order of beauty can be disturbed. The deer skull I created also reads to this, taking what is normally a trophy item used in taxidermy and hunting, disguising it in a seductive veil of metallic red glass. Last but not least, my gummy bears read to the experience of the expired gummy bear, riddled with dirt and dust from handling and neglect, while still containing a colorful, seductive veneer that entices you to look past the dirt. This is meant to engage the thought of how we as humans look for order, and will attempt to create it in its absence.

statement

Bells represent many things but what I am interpreting them as for this assignment is last call.  Last call is meant for a bar mostly, but last call represents the end of something, anything.  That plus the weaving intertwined will mark the end of an era, and represent the emotions that come with it.

Artist Statement

                                   "Their memory was something tangible and heavy,

                                    and I would carry it with me."

                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                            Ransom Riggs

           

My work is an attempt to bring life to the forgotten memories – to the lost letters, to the box of belongings, to the old photographs stuffed away in the attic.

They all have a story to tell. Through this series, I want to revive the story held within them. I am exploring the connection an individual has with their family. I am interested in the notion that you can look at an old photograph of a relative who is long gone – someone you’ve never met – and have a connection with them. You can see their faces and you can be drawn in to their long-gone moments. You can hear their stories so many times that you think you remember being a part of them. We live amongst this collection of glimpses, all while creating our own.

Our lives are shaped by those who came before us. I am influenced everyday, both by the people who raised me and by the ones who didn’t. I will never get to meet the latter. I was born too late.

But I can look at their photographs. I can speak their names. I can take their memories with me. And I can create my own.

Statement

Tyler Mauk

Ascension

                  Human existence, at its core, can be explained as a transfer from life to death. My photographs set out to capture this idea of the spirit being in transition between two bodily forms. The glass represents two sides of existence; life and death. The moment between these two realities becomes a clear and floating movement of the spirit; awaiting its ascension into another form.  The glass not only represents a separation between life and death, but is also the clarity that one experiences in the unconscious state after death.  

Above is my artist statement that goes along with the work presented in my thesis project (also presented above). Aside from the topics explored within my thesis I am also very interested in the visual aesthetics of film, creating images that reference and invoke thought of the moving image and nostalgia.

Statement

Art is a funny thing. On one hand, by making, you are saying something. On the other hand, the environment, composed of objects, materials, content, people, evoke something else. What making means to me is to be doing just that: making. There’s a self-trust that I have gained since I began making art only a couple of years ago. This funny thing does a lot of things, but most of all, it makes me happy. I am interested in negotiating all types of forms of communication. If communication is presented in a form, how far must it go to be abstracted? How hard must someone work to understand it? Maybe trust in the inevitable is the most understood?

For my thesis in Ohio University’s ceramics department, I have focused on a way of making that is as much un-mediated as possible. A pretty simple process lends itself to seeing new things appear. A few sticks are put together and somehow it reminds me of a tomato, a few more remind me of the sun, some over there remind me of a ramp. I see things in the objects that I see around me. My goal is to see something in the work that exists nowhere else.