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Spring BFA Exhibition goes online
Traditionally, the BFA Exhibitions serve as a capstone presentation to showcase the best work of our Fine Arts and Integrated New Media Studies students. As we were unable to host the Spring 2020 BFA Exhibition in person this year, we took it digital and curated an online experience. The following is a sampling of work from the exhibition, the entire exhibition can be viewed at blogs.iu.edu/raclinartgallery.
CHELSEA RAY-DYE | BFA in Graphic Design, Printmaking minor
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Renegade Fest billboard ad (2020) digital mockup
Renegade Music Festival is a proposed annual touring music event in The United States created by artist and designer, Chelsea Ray-Dye. The festival’s brand values include key terms such as: fun, passion, courage, diversity/ inclusivity, community-building, truth-seeking, and change-implementing.
Regrowth
With use of natural light and shadows, Stutsman was inspired by the aesthetic of the small town life that the youth lives in.The suburban feel sets up the series and brings a sense of nostalgia to the viewers.
Illustrated spread from Spike the Shark and His Adventure. by Noel Garcia Inspired by a childlike imagination, Garcia makes art that depicts emotion through narrative. Color and contrast are part of the visual impact of his work. The work is accessible to all audiences. Garcia’s creative work influences his graphic design work.
"For my BFA my goal was to create a design package for a company in the field of trading card game accessories. I chose to pursue this model because I am interested in packaging design and hoping to make that my long-term career. I feel that this project displays both my problem-solving skills and my attention to detail."
Naturesthetic, 3D Print
"Through my conceptual 3D Print, video and photography work I explore social behavior, raising questions about gender, belonging, vulnerability and self-representation within a social entity. Having lived in two different societies for a long period of time, I am aware that those variables may vary vastly from one society to another. Rather than exploring who an individual is, I am trying to comprehend where each individual is positioned in a society, how they contribute, and their interaction with other human and non-human entities."
Still from Winter Fashion Lookbook 2019
"My work consists of marketing and narrative videos that are modern with a unique style of editing that is eye catching. My interest for product marketing and technology, influenced me to develop my creative work. What all my videos have in common is the variety of different angles that I am able to capture to pull the attention from the audience."
KYRA DELOACH | BFA with a Concentration in Graphic Design / Minor in Art History
"Soap Sage" Fictional Organic Products Line
How do you know when you are okay?
By taking her original research and breaking it down into its component parts, Gray pieces together an overall image that both conveys its original intent and pleases the eye. Very versatile in her work, Gray’s overall style consists of delicateness, neatness, calming colors, and in particular an illustrative way of expressing linework that makes her designs different than the next.
BRIANNA EDGERLY | BFA with a Concentration in Photography/Minor in Printmaking
TOUCH HER
Why does it make you uncomfortable? Why is she hard to look at? Is she being too revealing? Is she being too honest? How is she supposed to act? She is just a person, but in your eyes, she is an object. She’s a toy. Do these images make you feel differently? Do you have sympathy for her now? You’ve pulled her strings too many times. This is her time to speak out. This is how we speak out.
JULIA KANESTROM | BFA with a Concentration in Drawing and Painting with Minors in Art History, History, and Printmaking.
"...an action and an emotion presented through linework and ink. The intricate lace patterning and even more delicate cross contour and crosshatching of the figures entices the viewer to find symmetry and geometry as a man-made manifestation of order. The ominous gloom surrounding the figures made with relief ink loosely applied with a brayer, represents our own fears encroaching upon us, self-doubts and nervous speculation of an unforeseen future."
Looking Above, Photograph, 11×17 2020
BIFF VIGIL | BFA with a Concentration in Printmaking / Minor in Psychology
Biff Vigil is a rust belt printmaker/experimental navigator/painter/sculptor/run-on sentence enthusiast/big fan of all dimensions of being embodied & making conceptual/essayistic work (each line is an extrapolation of her handwriting) exploring non-conceptual knowing in the spirit of celebrating/ offering departure from the Cartesian self.
Coral for Corals capstone project documentary and promotional materials
RYAN SOLANO | BFA with a Concentration in Photography / Minor in Printmaking
"My photography fuels the fire of advertisement. In our consumer driven society, we are inescapably bombarded by advertisements. It is quite frankly everywhere we look and embedded in every form of media we consume. I find this quite beautiful. When done right, advertising is a constantly evolving and alluring art gallery that is always within eyes reach. My goal as an artist is to create product pictures that will in turn be used to feed the advertising machine."
PAVEL S. ESHANOV | BFA IN INTEGRATED NEW MEDIA STUDIES with a Concentration in Graphic Design/Minor in Sculpture
3D character design
TRACY GALICIA | BFA IN INTEGRATED NEW MEDIA STUDIES with a Concentration in Video and Motion Media / Minor in Film Studies
Still from Vendredi sur Mer | Les filles désir (Music Video)
"I wanted to display the complexities of one’s anxieties of the world and inner self. It is an outlet for me to deal with my own struggles that I have suppressed. Using this medium allowed me to easily display anger, frustration, sadness, and fear through its use of colors and movement. I believe with video; it will allow others to become visually attracted to the piece from its constant movement."
