2024 Juried Student Exhibition

2024 Juried Student Exhibition

March 1st — April 6th, 2024

Reception — February 29th, 6—8pm

The annual Juried Student Exhibition showcases the works created by students in ODU’s Art Department, selected by our 2024 juror Gayle Paul, Curator at he Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center. The Exhibition features works in disciplines including drawing and design, graphic design, print and photo media, painting, and three-dimensional media.

Audrey Redford

LoneOak, LynnhavenBay,2023

Artist Statement: My work strives to serve as a record of the sheer emotional impact our natural world commands. As an artist, I attempt to impart how deeply human wellbeing is rooted in our environment, as well as the fragility of these places in the face of modern industrialization and climate change. These works are produced using soft pastels and plein air techniques to capture the depth of soul observed in a specific location at specific time before it slips through our hands.

FranklinCliff,Shenandoah, 2023

Avery Keys

Static,Fall2023

Artist Statement:

Embracing playfulness and absurdity, my work functions as a coping mechanism as a means to navigate the intricacies inherent to the human experience. Through painting, drawing, collage and ceramics, my work encapsulates fragments of myeslf, forming a visual chronicle of pivotal moments that have defined my personal journey. A lot in my life has been pushed to the side; my traumatic childhood, my loneliness, my abuse. Within my art practice, I am forced to sit and face these things head on and create a visual language of the feelings I am always struggling to put into words. I am aiming to reveal my identity by dissecting the strangeness of myself and putting it into art pieces. My images seek not only to share my story but also to discover moments of tranquility and peace within the nuanced interplay of form, emotion, and the delicate nature of our existence.

Bria Tyler

Artist Statement: Bria Tyler, a visual artist from Chesapeake, VA, is pursuing a BFA in Art Education at Old Dominion University. Her works combine various English influences, interwoven with her own cultural influences. Tyler's art celebrates the beauty of black hair, and she believes it is a crucial message that needs to be conveyed to the world.

TheManeChandelier, 2023

Bryce Ross

ITBREATHES,2023

Artist Statement: I find myself interested in the drastic contrasts in human perceptions, and the origins of the ideas or thoughts we express. Peeling back the layers of the bioethical world with a more personal and spiritual sense in mind. Also, we often need reminders that we aren’t so far gone from our earthly elements in the digital age full of 1’s and 0’s. We do not only exist among these elements but we simply are them, in a sense. Again, I serve as a reminder. Everything else observed, perceived, felt, or provoked from my work, tends to come from a more inner space. A very important space.

IWISHYOUCOULD SEEHOWBEAUTIFUL YOUARETHROUGH MYEYES,2023

Cadmium Daniels

Artist Statement

I'm an artist who draws inspiration from the events in my life and intertwines them with the inspiration that nature’s beauty gives me. I am currently exploring and working with metal, glass, and fiber in different ways to express the complicated emotions experienced with different aspects and events in life. The traumas I have faced have blossomed into some of my greatest inspirations. The different perceptions of emotions are what I wish to invoke in the conversations about my pieces. What Once

Elijah Chumley

CottonCandyBrain,2023

Artist Statement

A lot of my work is about the healing journey that the arts can help us go through. My chosen medium to do this is Fibers. Fibers has a very special place in my heart and has helped me grow and heal over the last year. Fibers art has a unique ability to connect us with our emotions and provide us with a sense of comfort and healing. Through the use of tufting, embroidery, and crochet, fibers soothes my soul and brings a sense of healing to my life. I would like to take every opportunity I can to share this with the world and my peers in the hopes that they too can find a way to heal and grow through the art of fibers.

TheSunLovesthe MoonSoMuch…,2023

Artist Statement: Through my work I explore connections between urban environments and the people who inhabit them. Primarily focusing on social expectations, I explore, exaggerate and satirize the imposed roles and the hierarchical structure of our society.

Ian Rodriguez

SaturdayNiteBeachParty,2023

ToyBurners,2023

Jalina Montoya

SayHerName,2020

Artist Statement: Through my lens, I captured the poignant moments of resilience, unity, and strength during the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. My photography seeks to amplify the voices of those fighting for justice, shedding light on the profound emotions and unwavering commitment within the movement all while being in a worldwide pandemic.

TheNeighborhood,2020

TRUMP,2021

Jessica Feick

LearningtoSurvive,2023

Artist Statement: At its core, my art is about learning. Learning my vices and virtues, my emotions, what I want to be, and what the materials want to be. My art derives inspiration from the complexities and intensity of the human experience. Shared experiences, such as strong emotions, are some things I seek to bring into physical form through my art, whichever material it may be realized through. I love to learn new processes and strive to continually develop new skills to incorporate into my work.

Artist Statement: Aside from my pieces meant to demonstrate technical skill, my body of work encompasses art that commemorates a part of my identity, expresses my emotions, or responds to social issue. I particularly enjoy working with mediums such as painting, drawing with ink, as well as bookmaking and fiber arts. In my artwork I praise color and texture, often using many mediums at once. Recently, I have started to include poetry in my work to not only compliment it but to amplify the power of a voice. TheGreatInBetween,2023

Kenya Gary

Untitled,2019

Artist Statement: I consider myself as a visual artist simply because I have never worked truly in only one medium. Mediums such as painting, digital photography, relief printmaking, and lots of collage. My subject matter tends to be aligned thematically with nature and activism, thanks to my experience as a Queer Black person living in a coastal environment. These paths allow me to use my art to tell those stories, my stories. These chosen works reflect both my technical growth and the love I have for creating art. The most important thing about art to me is being able to use my creativity to possibly make a change or to raise awareness about the smaller joys in life. Art can be found everywhere, you just have to know what to look for. Because at the end of the day one cannot have heart without art.

WelcometoYourLife, 2020

Madeline Sznoluch

FruitsofMyself,2022

Artist Statement: This collection of works very intimately represents core parts of myself and my identity, from my love for horses, to the experience of womanhood, to finding your identity within the natural world, coming to terms with trauma, and contemplating mortality. Over the last few years, I've strived to understand what it is to be me, at the center of my being, and captured the woman I was, the woman I am, and the woman I strive to be.

Khlōros,2023

KurtthePrzewalski'sHorse,2022

Mariposa Estrada

Stormy,2022

Artist Statement: With mediums ranging from two dimensional to three dimensional I specialize in creating pieces relating to capturing the essence of animals and nature. Ever since I was little, I’ve loved to go and experience nature and all its unique wonders, be it a little mushroom or a random bug on a leaf. Every time I see something new I become enamored with its strange qualities and wonder why and how it could exist in such an environment. This curiosity has made its way into my art in many different mediums from two dimensional to three dimensional. Be it large or small, I have found ways to express my love for nature and animals through my own creative process. KoiCuriosity,2022

Megan Obenaus

InYourDreams,2023

Artist Statement: The work I create is an exploration of my personal experiences and identity paired with an interest in challenging our preconceived notions of existing objects. I seek to investigate the sense of ambivalence that comes with human nature ultimately considering how the relationship between feelings of comfort and discomfort shape our lives. The process of re-contextualizing objects through means of material, imagery, or functionality, allows us to dissect the complexities of our everyday experiences. These familiarities are often not as mundane as they may seem and hold deep rooted meanings reflecting principles such as what we value most, and the nature of how we think and interact with the world around us.

Wash,Rinse,Repeat,2023

Michael Suriano

Artist Statement: I am inspired by Lance Wyman, Kawase Hasui, and Lorenzo Homar. I am continually fascinated by bold streaking colors.

錦帯橋,2022

TaraInPhase,2022

RocketCityBlues,2023

Everwhen,2022

Morgan Mackay Staples FloralTears,2023

Artist Statement:

Through my art, I delve into life's pivotal moments and the hardships we face as human beings. I draw inspiration from grief and sorrow, capturing the feeling of desperately clinging to life, only to have it slip through our fingertips. It's like being trapped in a cycle of pain and raw emotion, unable to move forward. Yet amidst the sadness, there is also pure joy. There are the memories you keep locked in a box, so you are able open it up and go back to relive it once again. Those are the cherished fleeting moments that we hold onto forever. I aim to create pieces that provoke deep emotions, reminding the audience that they are not alone in their struggles. We are all suffering in our own ways.

TheWaitingRoom,2023

Peymon Aleagha

CreationsofMadness,2023

Artist Statement: The works I create must be a composite of the works of my imaginary world. If the works I create do not have any part of the years-long story that I have composed, I will not consider the work to be my own. The reasons for that are all based on the experiences of my past. I hold dear to what has become of my story due to the memories I hold of witnessing the mental and real world. There is a fascination with the connection between the two worlds from the information I gather from the realworld melding and shaping whatever happens in the imaginary world. Therefore, implementing that information into a work of art and writing, is of utmost importance to me.

Blake'sReturn,2023

ARider'sEnd,2023

FamilyGrains,2023

Artist Statement: My making is not just about the creation of interesting or functional objects but, reflects my love and reverence for the natural world, womanhood, humanity, and the ways in which these things have shaped my experiences in life. As a child I found solace in Nature and wondered at it’s persistence. Now, after a traumatic adolescence marred by sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and mental illness I find myself returning for solace and to draw strength from such persistence. Inspired by the subjects that ignited my curiosity in my youth; womanhood, sexuality, and the human experience and leaning on the ease I feel in the natural world I have developed the perspective necessary to contextualize my experiences through my work. I make art that we might imbue with our ourselves, that with each handling or use might help us to create the stories and experiences worth treasuring and sharing. PromisedPotential,2023

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Teresa Mitchell

YellowSushiPlates,2021

Artist Statement: In 2020, as I was ready to investigate the forgotten highways across the USA, then the pandemic put up a detour sign. I had completed many other excursions over the years. To name a few, the “Parent Trip” created three beautiful daughters. The “Good Daughter” voyage, was tough and ended at Village of The Damned Dementia with my dad. With my road trip on hold, I veered right onto the Community College information highway. I am now exploring less traveled art mediums like printmaking, Scratch art, ceramics, sculpture, woodworking, jewelry, and metalsmithing. But best of all glassblowing through Old Dominion University I make my art pieces to show and share with people. When I give a new creation to someone, I want them to be intrigued enough to ask me how I did that! My art journey is like a road trip, full of adventures through the unknown. FarmFreshBreakfast,2023

WhovillePlaceSetting,2023