Paint Exchange Winners 2001
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.
DECEMBER 2001
$500 Paint Assortment
Meghan Bahn
meghan_bahn@yahoo.com
University of California at Santa Cruz
Art Professor: Jennie Lind McDade
Opposition and Division: Meghan’s project will be an exploration of the use of materials through mixed media painting. She’ll examine the association of ancient versus contemporary and organic versus manufactured using the imagery of love & hate, birth & death, good & evil and conflict & resolution. Meghan will contrast ancient handmade materials with contemporary materials. She’ll use Gloss Medium & Varnish and Gloss Gel to adhere materials together, to sculpt materials into shapes and to make positive and negative transfers for collage elements. "Texture, layering and juxtaposition are important to my work. I want to adhere Washi paper and acrylic transfers to each other, at times stitching with twine. Some pieces will be mounted on panels and some will hang freely or be sculpted into shapes. The pieces will be painted with acrylics which work perfectly with layering and sculpture as they are quick drying and flexible".$250 Paint Assortment
Kiara Sausedo
ksause@artic.edu
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Professor: Becky Shore
Garment and Memory: Kiara will be working with ideas of pattern and color in relation to fabric. The effect of what we wear and how it can trigger past memories, domesticity and nostalgia will be the focus of a six by six-foot painting.$250 Paint Assortment
Rodney Rodis
skaxchimp@aol.com
Northern Illinois University
Art Professor: Katie Kahn
Insecure New World: Rodney will work on a series of six paintings in reaction to the misfortunes on September 11th. Executed in a minimalist style, the titles of the paintings will be: World Trade Center, The Pentagon, Anthrax Post Office Box, Buttons (from the cold war), Anthrax Package and Liberation.NOVEMBER 2001
$500 Paint Assortment
Jerome Douglas Tobias
coogillama@hotmail.com
University of Kentucky
Art Professor: Jim Foose
Jerome recently attended a travel program, studying the art, architecture, and culture of both India and Japan. He plans to execute a large seven by seven-foot canvas, that encompass the vibrant colors and textures of the culture of these two countries. He will use the journals, notebooks and photographs that he kept as reference materials. Jerome also collected sands, papers, rocks, plant life and other artifacts, to collage into the painting. The work will become layers of memories and experiences.
$250 Paint Assortment
Bunny Dowland
bunnydowland@netscape.net
Junior at Cal Poly Pomona
Art Professor: Professor Roe
Bunny proposes portraits of young people in mid century style dress and hair. The portraits will be from the shoulders up as if high school photos in a yearbook. She plans 12 black and white portraits lined up in 3 rows of 4 set against a solid background.OCTOBER 2001
$500 Liquitex Paint Assortment
Jean Rizzo
jrizzo99@yahoo.com
University of Texas
Bill Wiman, Graduate Adviser
Jean's proposal consists of several large-scale works (five to six feet square), each comprised of many smaller separate pieces, some quite as small as six inches square. After the initial construction has been completed, layers of acrylic paint will be applied to the boards with great attention paid to surfaces and detail. The images in these works will be quite varied, encompassing everything from old master inspired fruits and flowers, to Victorian post cards, to contemporary animation. The intent of these pieces is to find and display a cohesive idea and a beautiful, final, unified image derived from so many seemingly disparate parts and different eras.SEPTEMBER 2001
$500 Liquitex Paint Assortment
Amy Eldridge
artwithamy@hotmail.com
Senior at Bethel College, Kansas
Art Professor: Gail Lustch
Amy will complete her Fine Art Degree from Bethel College with a Santa Fe SITE Education Program Internship. She will use her Liquitex Paint Exchange supplies to work with the Santa Fe County Youth Development Program on art projects. This will culminate in a three month exhibition of the work in the Rotunda Gallery in the state capital building.
$500 Liquitex Paint Assortment
Nancy Prator
nancyprator@aol.com
Senior at the School of Visual Arts, NYC
Art Professor: Peter Fiore
Nancy will execute a series of 7 to 13 paintings dealing with "the concrete jungle". She is fascinated by the unseen beauty of a major city. Nancy will explore the lighting, composition and design in the masses of intertwined steel in buildings, bridges and subways.AUGUST 2001
$500 Liquitex Acrylic Paint Assortment
Elizabeth Marden Grotyohann
waxwings@minister.com
Sophomore at Maryland Institute College of Art
Elizabeth is planning a year-long series of acrylic paintings that will explore the gestural form of the human figure through the use of expressive line. Each paintings will tell a story or make a statement about the interaction of people within or the state of modern society. Color will be investigated and emphasized; the focus will primarily be on the emotional/psychological qualities of the colors as complements to the subject matter. Texture (especially that created through build-up of acrylic paint) will also be explored as a means to support the subjects. Elizabeth plans to create approximately twenty pieces in the series.
$500 Liquitex Acrylic Paint Assortment
Michael Demers
m_demers@gate.net
Freshman at Ohio University, College of Fine Arts
Art Professor: Guy Goodwin
Michael is working on The History of the World Project. It consists of works of art based upon a fictional series of books by the same name. He will create a series of paintings that raise an initial question and present pieces of a larger puzzle, in an effort to combat any preconceived ideas of the viewer. For example, oil development from the 1980s conflicting with current agricultural development, how this relates to the theory of Dutch Disease in the North Sea and the underlying theories behind human rights in relation to the countries who espouse them. Issues of hypocrisy, liberation, freedom, imperialism, groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and even programs like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and the Geneva Convention will be brought into play here.JULY 2001
$500 Paint Assortment
Ichiro Irie
eyefunk@hotmail.com
Sophomore at Claremont Graduate University
Art Professor: Rolan Reiss
Ichiro will pursue a series called DRYWALL UTOPIA. The series is Loosely based on the concepts of Scandinavian Filmmakers and will consist of realistic portraits of friends and acquaintances engaging in fictitious activities within interior spaces. These spaces are all constructed with drywall. Ichiro sees the drywall home as a ubiquitous presence in Los Angeles and most of America.
The series will be based on self-imposed rules: 1. only paint people known to the artist 2. paint from photographs 3. do not use any wardrobes or outside props 4. only use available light 5. architectural elements will be parallel and perpendicular to the frame 6. paint only in the homes of the subject 7. paint in a flat deadpan 8. paint life size.
$500 Paint Assortment
Laura Atkinson
latkinso@risd.edu
Sophomore at Rhode Island School of Design
Art Professor: Sandra Solomon
Laura will pursue a project related to art therapy. The main objective of this project is to find where the worlds of art and psychology meet. The making and interpreting of art, individuals reach a deeper understanding of personal motivations in everyday life. Her project will not only help in producing art work, but assist participant of the study to enhance their ability to help others or understand their motivations. Through a series of exercises and exposure to a wide variety of resources, both Laura and the participants will develop strategies for enhancing creativity related to artwork, classroom, business and lifestyle.
Laura will use acrylic paints, interference paint, cloth, wax, pastels and pencils, and collage materials to discover the link between art making and the essential need to bring meaning and structure to one life experience. To document her study, she will incorporate both traditional and Kirlian photography (the process of capturing energy fields from both human and non-human subjects). These photographs will record the personal creative journey and or healing process that is experienced.JUNE 2001
$250 Paint Assortment
Alana Puryear
apuryear@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Senior at University of California at Berkeley
Art Instructor:Tree Williams
Alana will start work on a large-scale painting that is comprised of seemingly disparate elements. These elements stem from her varied interests: nature, symbols that relate to cycles and change, personal and social history, cultural heritage, and love of color and patterns. She plans it as a culmination project of sociological, historical, and theoretical significance. "This work is to sum up my lessons at Berkeley, since I am graduating in May, and offer a creative release to delve into complex compositional strategies and ideas for my own personal growth as an artist".
She plans to experiment with the photo transfer process using Gloss Gel Medium and old photographs of her relatives and collage-like painting with references to quilt-making, Native American craft, and the seasons. Her goal is to make a painting/collage work that has glowing color and contrast, subject matter that hopefully is intriguing and thought-provoking, but most of all, visually successful.
$250 Paint Assortment
Adria Gamble
adria.l.gamble-1@ou.edu
Senior at University of Oklahoma
Art Instructor: Louise Jones
Adria will complete a series of 6 paintings that deal with individuals in different walks of life from different countries. The paintings will range in size up to 5 ft x 4 ft., incorporating realistic details in both landscape and figure. Using personal and borrowed images and photos, Adria plans to portray the countryside of Italy, France, Africa, and America and people who live there in, various poses and positions.
$250 Paint Assortment
Peter Crandall
renderitup@hotmail.com
Sophomore at Savannah College of Art and Design
Art Instructor: John Larison
Peter is proposing something he calls the "Reese's Project". He begins by randomly passing out individually wrapped Reese's Peanut Butter Cups with a catch. The packaging includes a 2"x 2" white cardboard liner. Peter requests that the candy recipient uses the white square to make a piece of art. He then collects these and assembles them into a larger work. His Student Paint Exchange Project is to make a large body of paintings from the Reese's Project work.
$250 Paint Assortment
Deborah Engle
srdandt@aol.com
Sophomore at Centenary College
Deborah plans on conducting an ""art investigation"" with the children in her neighborhood prior to beginning teaching. She will help them expand their knowledge of art by teaching them that art can be created in many different ways and how to paint like impressionists, cubist, dadaists, etc.MAY 2001
PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - $500 Paint Assortment
Alyson Smith
Senior at Boston University School for the Arts
Art Instructors: Carol Keller, Nadine Zanow
Alyson is inspired by her childhood memories of her mother who was a fashion designer. "Growing up around graphic images and fabric has been one of the biggest influences on my paintings". Her current work consists of images of designs, different fabrics, patterns and text that her mother would use during her career. These are all collaged with mediums, texture gels and acrylic paint. Alyson plans to continue this series with two 4x6 ft. paintings and twenty smaller ones.
PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - $500 Paint Assortment
Stacey Kirby
Junior at Montserrat College of Art
Art Instructor: Elissa della Piana
Stacey's past work has incorporated a variety of sculptural elements. Most particularly, she is interested in using windows, physically cut into the major part of the work, to reveal some inner workings or characteristics of the subject matter. The central point of her work is usually a realistic self-portrait that might focus on hands, face, or other body parts juxtaposed with a window and other 3-dimensional forms. Stacey is interested in developing this line of work as a series, incorporating more acrylic paint, textural and sculptural elements that will perhaps project off the wall or hang in space.APRIL 2001
PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - Acrylic 500
Ashley Rae Stevenson
Senior at Wells College, Aurora, NY
Art Professor: Ted Lossowski
Ashley will complete a series of paintings utilizing a combination of paint, fluid and gel mediums, plaster cast body parts, other materials and found
objects.
In the past, she has focused primarily on freestanding sculpture, using castings and hand-built clay forms. "The element of human form is a recurrent theme in my work. I have used castings as a basis for the work and embellished upon that form in some way. I feel that this creates an interesting tension and element of mystery, yet offers the viewer something they can relate to on a very basic level".
Ashley is eager to combine these sculptural elements with paint and introduce painting more fully into her work. Her plan is to create intriguing, textural 2-D paintings with 3-D aspects, and free standing or relief sculpture. She has already begun castings and sketches for this project.
PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - Acrylic 500
Albina McPhail
Junior at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Art Professor: C. MacEachran
Albina's primary concern is to be able to depict the mood, attitude and character of the female figure through a simplification process that begins as a sketch of realistic figure and arrives, as a finished piece, in the form of abstract expressionism.
The Process of creating this series will include the exploration of the use of color as a primary agent and the use of the absence of color. The absence of color or white on white approach, will use Liquitex Gels and Mediums to suspend various materials and create dimensional and textural surfaces. Albina feels that the use of innovative materials is as important in artwork, as it is in the idea/context and execution. This series will consist of numerous pieces on primed and unprimed cotton paper, in sizes ranging from 10x10 inches to 60x40 inches.MARCH 2001
PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - Acrylic 500
Bonnie Alexander
Senior at Florida International University
Kate Kretz, Art Professor
Bonnie will paint two bodies of work, "Angels in the darkness" and "Dark Bright Renaissance 2000". "Angels in the darkness" will portray the ideals and experiences of people helping in critical situations where no help is expected. "Dark Bright Renaissance 2000" will use genre scenes and classical compositions for inspiration, using figures of people of color. The series will consist of ten 5'x 6' paintings per theme.
PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - Acrylic 500
Johanna Sourbeer
Freshman at Southwestern College
Kathleen McCord, Art Professor
Johanna will explore the conflict between a person's desires and the reality they have chosen or have allowed to be chosen for them. Some the feelings to be addressed are duality, strain, confusion, realization and resistance. It will be a series of approximately 3 to 5 paintings on canvas, drawing on some principles of German Expressionism, Primitivism, and Surrealism. A limited palette of contrasting colors will be used, in combination with black and white images in each painting. In addition, Johanna will use borders, words and contrasting finishes of hi-gloss, matte and metallic colors.
FEBRUARY 2001
STUDENT PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - Acrylic 250
Christina Muraczewski
Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Beverly Fishman, Painting Advisor
Christina will work on minimal abstractions of furniture from the IKEA catalog. They'll be painted to scale, creating a life-size two-dimensional catalog. She's planning to do every room of a house and set up the paintings the way they'd appear in a room. There will also be blue print type diagram painting of each room, shown separately.
STUDENT PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - Acrylic 250
Johanna Benotti
Boston University School of Fine Arts
Carol Keller, Sculptor Advisor
Johanna is in the process of creating a series of plaster dresses. Each dress will represent a different time in history, from the Victorian age to the modern age. Created from plaster and plaster soaked burlap, for these whimsical pieces will be finished in Liquitex Acrylic to add the much needed color.
STUDENT PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - Acrylic 500
Sung H. Kim
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Tony Phillips - Painting Advisor
Sung Kim's paintings and drawings uses methodology that brings meteorological studies and satellite images into making of images. She is currently creating paintings and drawings that involve extensive compilations of surface and jet stream maps. This project is to see how one can arrive at abstract images that are based on current weather condition. This is a study of what it means to have images that are conceptually created using a particular method, which bases its validity on true physical conditions outside. In creating these images, isobars, cloud patterns, isotherms and wind direction are used to find relationships to the outside condition, as they are observe them through satellite images. This project employs systematic image making. The time of compiling various satellite images and how the images are brought into the work are tightly controlled. The surfaces where the images are created are synchronized with current atmospheric condition by using a compass and the painting and drawing gestures are influenced by the wind direction.JANUARY 2001
STUDENT PAINT EXCHANGE AWARD - Acrylic B 1000
Kristen Blinne
Graduate Student at Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
Betsy Walker, Primary Advisor
Kristen would like to coordinate an art making project, working with urban middle school students to create a mural depicting the African-American experience and spirit. She will introduce students to the painting styles of African-American artists. She wants to encourage a community experience that promotes art participation in a team setting with paint, which for many may be a new experience. Kristen believes this will also enhance the students' sense of heritage, instill confidence and a positive self-image and develop their appreciation of art making with paint. The mural will be located in a prominently displayed area of the school. The estimated mural size will be 15 feet long and 6 feet high in a rectangular shape.
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