Paint Exchange Recipients 1998
Following are the latest winners of the Liquitex Paint Exchange Program. Our selection jury thought that they had good ideas and as the work is completed it will be hung in the Liquitex Art Gallery.
NOVEMBER 1998
Min Jung Cheon, Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting
Min will receive the Acrylic B 1000 package to aid her in creating an artwork of mammoth proportions. She has been working on a painting that spans nearly six-hundred square feet! The mural is already over one year old, with much to be completed. This work depicts the cosmic growth and origin of the Big Bang Universe. It is viewed under a black light to highlight the dramatic dimensions in black holes, quasars, big bangs and differently rendered bubble universes. In essence, Min hopes to show a "hyper-realistic rendering of the conceptual play in space and time continuum."OCTOBER 1998
Julie Kruger, Georgia State University
Julie gets the Acrylic A 750 package to help her unleash and explore the boundaries of the human body. Using human proportion-sized canvasses, she will seek to surpass the boundaries of the skin — "the last frontier that separates us" from our external habitat. In short, Julie wishes to find a bridge between the internal body and the external world.
Marshall Roemen, Maryland Institute, College of Art
Marshall will get a chance to use his Deluxe Intro 250 set to aid him in creating his favorite kinds of works — large paintings that focus on light and on a strip of Interstate 83 near his home. He will focus on the "subtle qualities of light on the architectural forms and nature" along the road. Through color, Marshall hopes to bring quiet places to life and stir the emotions and memories of his viewers.SEPTEMBER 1998
Eric Hongisto, Yale University
Eric gets package Acrylic A 750 to aid him in painting 4 abstract pieces this semester. The paintings will be astral in nature and challenge our size relationship to the cosmos. Eric hopes to show these nebulaes' and swirling galaxies' connections to natural forms such as spirals and circles.
Katie Meier, Foothill College
Katie will use her new Deluxe Intro 250 set to paint "images that speak directly to us." These paintings will consist of nude figure paintings, of which the most essential and honest human feelings and gestures are hoped to be captured. Gaining "body through color and soul through texture," Katie's paintings will create a deeply personal experience for those who look upon them.AUGUST 1998
Jered Sprecher, Concordia University
Jered will use package Acrylic A 750, among other media, to create his latest masterworks. He intends to blend paint, printed materials, discarded paper and fabrics on plywood surfaces to create paintings that tell "a story of what ideas were in my head" at the time of their creation. The pieces will become records of the artist's struggle to create finished paintings.
Miranda Webster, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA)
Miranda hopes to use her new Deluxe Intro 250 set to "explore my personal imagery and studies in mind." She wishes to paint large works, incorporating paint, text and collage elements into a myriad of patterns and designs. She would also like to experiment by filling a room with small canvases, with each canvas representing an object she is drawn to. In this way, she hopes to create new and interesting relationships between common everyday items.JULY 1998
Julie H. Bradley, Leslie College (MA)
Julie will recieve package 750-A to aid her in putting together her latest project — an art studio for inner city children. These youths will donate community service in exchange for a chance to create an art gallery that the whole town can enjoy. By combining Liquitex paints, community service and individual talents, Cambridge kids will learn a sense of responsibility and pride for their neighborhood.
Arlinda Rudolph, University of North Dakota (ND)
Arlinda plans to use her Basic Intro 100 package to create "Impressionism with a new twist." By using an impressionistic technique with a somewhat surreal attitude, Arlinda wishes to highlight the incidental quirkiness of our environment by "bringing together the internal and external the way it should be understood."
Stephanie Lyons, Brigham Young University Hawaii (HI)
With her new Basic Intro 100 package, Stephanie will have the opportunity to fulfill her dream of combining ancient and modern mythology with antique chairs. Initially, she wishes to confine the myth related subject matter to the chairs' seats. As she becomes more successful in her work, however, she hopes to extend her visions and subjects to the chairs' arms and legs.JUNE 1998
Doug Haring, Maryland Institute College of Art (MD)
Doug plans to continue his already existing Whirlwind series using Liquitex acrylic paints and mediums. The Whirlwind series, which has been exhibited at Penn State University, consists of a series of charcoal landscapes of the farmland of central Pennsylvania and Maryland which are very energetic and windswept with stark contrast and a strong sense of light, creating an unusual aura around common pastoral imagery. Doug will bring color into his series by switching mediums from charcoal to acrylics.MAY 1998
Jonathan F. Young, School of Visual Arts (NY)
Jonathan and a partner will use Liquitex acrylics to paint a ceiling mural emulating the frescos of the High Renaissance and Baroque periods. He seeks to create an exciting contrast between these styles and contemporary ideas by substituting modern urban characters for the figures of old. He also hopes to stimulate comparisons between Baroque/Renaissance social contexts and current everyday subject matter.APRIL 1998
Lori Kent, Teachers College, Columbia University
Lori wishes to design a series of 3-D narrative wall paintings on invented rectilinear forms. Beginning with a papier maché base, she will use acrylics, structural paint, textural media and gloss media to enhance her theme of Creole culture.MARCH 1998
Anthony Raffalovich, Georgia State University
Anthony plans to create a variety of large scale paintings and drawings that will express the textural, structural and atmospheric conditions found in nature. He plans to focus on the concept of using nature and trees as metaphors for the human condition.FEBRUARY 1998
Kendra Wadsworth, University of Pennsylvania
Using a variety of acrylic paints, Kendra will create works that are reflective of childhood by intimately blending expressionism, children's objects and geometric fields and shapes.JANUARY 1998
Shuko Kawase, Brown University
Shuko is a Visual Arts major who is planning a project that will explore the concept of an underlying, core universality among peoples through the subject of childhood and the child's mind.
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