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larry pollans Peter, ceramic, 16 inches by 13 inches by 12 inches, 2012 Bill, pastel on slate, 55 inches by 45 inches, 2012 One by one, as our campus was renovated and renewed, the old sheets of slate blackboard were removed. Our old friend Bill Moore, who spent much of his teaching career at Milton, used those boards. His tracings were legendary. What better material for a Moore drawing than slate. As a Vermonter, Bill has a flinty, practical nature, but he is also driven by more exotic voices. His Ph.D. in French literature attests to that. From the stony to the ephemeral, from the practical to the romantic, from stone to pastel, the materials suggested themselves for the Bill Moore portrait. The imperative is to find a path, both formal and expressive. That was also the process I went through with Peter Haines’s ceramic portrait.
emilie stark-menneg ’02 American Baby, oil and mixed media on canvas, 80 inches by 48 inches, 2014 I paint on both 2-D and 3-D surfaces. I roam the streets collecting discarded objects: sinks, baby carriages, chalkboards, tents. I incorporate these elements into my paintings. I also enjoy painting from life, especially in conversation with abstraction. Endlessly impulsive, I throw paint, slap on tape, and model the surface to create vibrant juxtapositions. I am interested in being “wrong” — cutting up American flags, placing something highly rendered next to something shoddy. I also create images that conjure multiple readings.
maggie stark Word Play, neon, 10 inches by 36 inches by 4 inches, 2012 In 2009, I received a cultural fellowship from the Goethe Institute to study in Berlin, which coincided with the 2oth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. My observations of the public events and historical discourse surrounding the anniversary provided the catalyst for the two videos, Wall-Play and Still-Time. These films use playground play to examine the implications and associations of the wall before and after its fall.
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