Paint Exchange Recipients 2002
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 2002
$1000 Paint Assortment
Nicole Haroutunian
niharoutunia@vassar.edu
Vassar College
Art Professor: Peter Charlap
Project: Identity Politics
"I have recently been thinking about how, on paper, my father is ""white"" in this country. Looking at him though, few Americans would consider him white. Of Armenian descent and raised in Iran, he has dark skin, black hair, and dark eyes. My mother is of mixed Western European descent and looks very stereotypically white. I fall somewhere in between, obviously. About half of the time I am assumed to be white, while the other half of the time I am taken to be Hispanic, Middle Eastern, or Indian."In the tradition of Adrian Piper, Nicole proposes two self-portraits, one accentuating her "white" background, the other her Armenian. She will separate out her features and use photographs of family members from the maternal and paternal branches as source material. Nicole plans to incorporate text into the paintings, using English on the "white" painting and Armenian on the other. She’ll ask questions such as "Does it mean anything to be Armenian in this country?" She is less interested in asking "what does it mean..." than IF it means anything at all. Clearly being Hispanic, Middle Eastern, or Indian in the United States carries many associations and assumptions, as does any other minority identity. Armenians, who have immigrated to this country in large numbers and have been seriously persecuted and oppressed in other countries, seem to escape any stereotype here. My question, ultimately, will be: as a woman of Armenian heritage, why do I get to be "white"?
NOVEMBER 2002
$1000 Paint Assortment
Shannon Mustipher
smustiph@risd.edu
Rhode Island School of Design
Art Professor: Roberta Oliver
Project: Images, Phrases, and Words
"My work references images, phrases, and words from popular culture, literature, and art history". With the help of exploratory drawings rapidly executed in marker or ink, Shannon makes paintings in which unlikely combinations of images, words, and 'trademark' styles of painting are combined to make new propositions about the use or meanings of them. A shadowy drawing of a chandelier might hover in the foggy recesses of a Rothko or Marden appropriated image on top of which the word "sublime" is inscribed in cursive script. Whether or not everything in the painting comes together in a logical way is not immediately obvious. The challenge for the viewer is to find a way to make sense of the things in the painting, to make connections between it's elements, and to discover possible meanings arising from the words, images, and the way the work is executed. Shannon’s work is less about making specific statements, as it is an opportunity to see familiar objects or concepts in new and unfamiliar ways.
Each painting in the series will begin with small ink drawings that journalistically record thoughts, responses to her surroundings and imagery from movies and books. Most of the drawings will have words or phrases written underneath as they provide subtle hints as to the possible meaning of the image. "Once I've made some drawings that strike me as especially interesting or thought provoking, I start the painting into which I 'fit' the words and images that have been selected. In that sense, my paintings refer to other paintings as much as my drawings and images refer to other drawings and images. I want to take stuff from everywhere, throw it all together, and reconfigure it into something fresh, novel, and exciting". Shannon’s series promises to be sensually provocative and intellectually exciting, with an end result characterized by humor, energy and surprise.
OCTOBER 2002
$500 Paint Assortment
Terah Robinette
terahlynn@hotmail.com
Florida School of the Arts
Art Professor: Charles Marsh
Project: Paper Pulp
"Save the Planet - Recycle Paper and Create Art,". Terah plans to cover pieces of old furniture and roadside treasures with about 2500 pounds of recycled paper that has been converted into paper pulp. The pulp will be applied in a sculptural manner adding texture and some organic looking appendages. The pieces will then be brightly painted with Liquitex Acrylic.$500 Paint Assortment
Holly R Wick
Puffywaun@msn.com
Spokane Falls Community College
Project: Sculptural Wall of Paint
"I would like to create a wall to blend into the environment in such a way that it makes the viewer think about their surroundings while challenging their perceptions of both art and sculpture". Holly will construct a 6 ft. x 12 ft. canvas covered, plywood wall and thickly apply Liquitex Acrylics, Texture Gels and found objects such as broken glass, cellophane, marble and leaves.
SEPTEMBER 2002
$500 Paint Assortment
Jason Kim
Largemouth_painter@yahoo.com
MFA Program at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Art Professor: Carol Moore
Project: Patterns of light on water
"A river can flow and gently tug at your ankles, persuading you to join it, or angrily consume you, pulling you down and trapping you beneath the surface. Watching patterns of light twist, expand, condense and disappear, it is easy to be mesmerized by the visual instability of a body of water. My paintings attempt to capture this."Jason’s large-scale works are intended to suggest represented personas of currents while immersing and engrossing the viewer. His palette reflects the ocean and the colors that provide a vehicle to portray these expressions effectively.
$500 Paint Assortment
Julie Dummermuth
jdummermuth@hotmail.com
Graduate Student, San Francisco Art Institute
Art Professor: Mark Van Proyen
Project: Celebrating ornamental fantasies
Julie will be constructing a series of large scale acrylic paintings that addresses the visual rhetoric of America's "hallmark" celebrations. Celebrating the exuberance of holiday entertaining with immense, sumptuously painted ornamental fantasies of holiday decorations, she hopes to point to the fact that no matter how disdainful our initial reactions to decoration as overdone and unimportant clutter, its importance does command a niche in our lives. By combining acrylic paint, gold leaf, iridescent gold & silver, enamel and gemstones, these paintings will act as both a comment on decoration as well as spectacular displays in their own right.
AUGUST 2002
$1000 Paint Assortment
Consuelo Elaine Velasco
5505 E. Mt. Whitney
Laton, CA 93242
559-816-0914
spamqueen92481@yahoo.com
Senior at University of California, Santa Cruz
Art Professor: Joyce Brodsky
Project: Community Art
Consuelo is an artist from a small farming community in the San Joaquin Valley of California. She has committed herself to utilize her experience as an artist to make a positive social change there. Her proposal is to paint a collaborative community mural, ninety feet long and eight feet tall, on a train overpass located in the center of town. The train overpass functions as a main artery in town and is an ideal site for creating the largest impact. Using collaboration as a catalyst to promote unity, she has worked with a group of local talented youth, teaching them the skills required for the project. The projected completion of this project is September.
JULY 2002
$500 Paint Assortment
Tina Rogers-Rice
ibiswhitefeather@yahoo.com
Sophomore, Northampton Community College
Art Professor: Bruce Wall
Project: Dance Paintings
Tina proposes a series of paintings inspired by the motion and feeling of dance. The paintings will be getstural in approach, from life studies and the completed project will become part of a performance piece with dancers moving in and around the paintings. The project will include collage and texture, combined with acrylic paint.$500 Paint Assortment
Maria Park
mariapark@yahoo.com
Second year, MFA program, San Francisco Art Institute
Project: Texture Map Installation
Maria is currently gathering materials for an installation, which will mimic the texture map applications of 3D software such as FormZ and Bryce. The installation will have on its surface a continuous application of stripes, which resemble bar codes, but consists of multiple variations of colors to create a hyper-visual effect. This project will be shown in several venues 2002-2003: at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and at the MFA Thesis Exhibition at Herbst Pavilion in San Francisco.
JUNE 2002
$250 Paint Assortment
Bryan Stryeski
bstry78@hotmail.com
First year Graduate Student, Yale University School of Art
Art Professor: Samuel Messer
Project: Sequential Layering
Bryan plans on making a series of works integrating painting, drawing, printmaking, and digital media. He will start with a painted surface and then build up many sequential layers of information with different techniques and mediums. Each layer is done in a different color and technique, the many layers forming an information overload to visually engage the viewer.
$250 Paint Assortment
Jeanette Schevers
jeanetteschevers@hotmail.com
Junior, Midwestern State University
Art Professor: Elizabeth A. Yarosz
Project: Puzzle-Like Painting
Jeanette has proposed a 2 dimensional modular mural, painted on shaped wooden panels that form puzzle-like pieces. The final work will be approximately ten x five feet. Using bright and lush coloring, the mural will be designed using the tessellation techniques of M.C. Escher, depicting aspects of the community of international students that attend the university.
$500 Paint Assortment
Lori Kay Kirkbride
lorikirkbride@hotmail.com
First year Graduate Student, Pratt Institute
Art Professor: Jerry Hayes
Project: Acrylic paint, sewn and stuffed
Lori is working on her M.F.A. thesis project. She has developed a technique of creating dried, flexible acrylic paint films that she later uses to create sewn forms and objects, stuffed with polyester filling. For her project plans to use this technique to recreate an apartment including all of the objects normally found in an apartment entirely made out of paint and wood supports. The pieces will be life size and to scale and will include such items as a couch with cushions, a twin size bed with a patchwork comforter and pillows, kitchen table, place mats, and 3-D flowers in a vase, all made of acrylic paint that is sewn and stuffed.
MAY 2002
$250 Paint Assortment
Dustin Harewood
de_bubbler@yahoo.com
Graduate Student, UNC at Greensboro
Art Professor: Cora Cohen
Project: Figurative Paintings
Dustin will produce paintings integrating the history of figuration in Western art with the aesthetic of West African wood sculpture.
$250 Paint Assortment
Brynne Isaksen
bi5@email.byu.edu
Senior, Brigham Young University
Art Professor: Robert T. Barrett, Provo
Project: Support Center Mural
Brynne will paint a mural at the Family Support Center at Timpanogos Elementary School to inspire both adults and children. The mural's main focus would be literacy, family values and lifelong learning. He hopes that the mural will help unify the townspeople in improving the orphanage.
$250 Paint Assortment
Jena Cephas
jena@provide.net
Junior, University of Detroit-Mercy
Art Professor: Allegra Pitera
Project: Urban Treehouse
Jenas work focuses on the use and ability of color to create depth and illusion of space in the picture plane. Her studies began with simple 2D color swatches and the organization of simple shapes in the plane according to lightness and darkness of hue. The project has since evolved into a 3D architectonic form: an urban treehouse. The full scale form will be a one person enclosure allowing up close and personal observation of color hue shifts painted inside.
$250 Paint Assortment
Scott Hall
Scotthall@graphic-designer.com
Senior, Wayne State University
Art Professor: Peter Williams
Project: The Anxiety Project
Scott will following a psychic tension theme in making torso structures, wrapping them in canvas and applying gels and paint.
APRIL 2002
$250 Paint Assortment
Ami Forchielli
digihorizon@hotmail.com
Sophomore, Northampton Community College
Art Professor: Bruce Wall
Project: Poster Paintings - Ami proposes a series of paintings influenced by the propaganda posters in the early part of the 20th century, protesting war and advocating nonviolence. She will be using a combination of acrylic paint, Texture Gels, and collage to create several 26"X36" canvases. The collaged elements will be black and white photographs adhered with Gel medium.
$250 Paint Assortment
Sarah Nash
snash1@utk.edu
Senior, University of Tennessee
Art Professor: Tom Reising
Project: Mock Billboards - Sarah plans to create large panels or mock billboards approximately 4' to 5'. The work, installed both outdoors and indoors, will combine flat, graphic elements and more detailed, ""painterly"" areas. She plans to use imagery from disassociated types of information, like soldiers and cotton candy. The work may combine obscurely related or unrelated forms to call into question the meaning of particular symbols.
$250 Paint Assortment
Nicholas DeFord
Mekong04@aol.com
Junior, University of Tennessee
Art Professor: Sam Gordon
Project: Pillow Paintings - "My current work is very tactile oriented, and I enjoy pushing two-dimensional art into the third-dimension, kicking and screaming". Nicholas proposes a series of 8-12 paintings on the surfaces of pillows, using a variety of sized pillows, from very large to small. The images on the pillows will explore various dreams I have, one dream per pillow. "It is as if the dream has burned itself onto the pillow, the object then becoming a record of my nightly dreams".
$250 Paint Assortment
Ival Stratford-Kovner
ivalsk@aol.com
Western Connecticut State University
Project: Images, Repeated Memory of the World Trade Center - Ival proposes a group project of painting recycled hard vinyl, square shaped seat cushions. Each cushion will have a slightly different pattern using bright and iridescent colors, combined with photo transfers of the World Trade Center. The resulting squares of seats will then be placed in a formal pattern on the floor a framing of wood around the entire piece.
MARCH 2002
$500 Paint Assortment
Tonya D. Lee
tlee76@hotmail.com
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Graduate Student
Art Professor: Michael Ananian
Tonya is exploring logic, economy, utility and beauty as the ingredients of visual stimulation. The work will deal with each of the four categories as a manifestation in paint and mediums on a surface, and the painting’s ability to interact. The paintings will be large scale decorative abstractions incorporating various mediums including resins, wax, varnishes and acrylic paint. The abstractions will borrow imagery from mid-century textile and industrial design, with the intent of merging art and craft. "My intentions are heavily influenced by the modern architect's and designer's concern for a product for the masses. It is my intention to incorporate this ideal in what has been categorized high art. I intend to make paintings that can be readily absorbed by the viewer; and readily absorbed into the viewer's domestic lives".
$250 Paint Assortment
Jill Summers
nsummers@utk.edu
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Junior
Art Professor: Sam Gordan
Jill has been working with vintage fabric from thrift stores that she stretches onto frames. She uses stencils, die-cuts and acrylic paint to create humorous images to which she adds trinkets and glitter. Jill’s project will be to incorporate screen-printed images in acrylic paint, to produce four 2 ft. x 3 ft. canvases.
$250 Paint Assortment
Daniel Kelly
zombiebones@hotmail.com
University of Texas at San Antonio
Art Professor: Ron Binks
Daniel will explore the use of Xerox transfers using acrylic mediums, in addition to painting and collaging elements on large surfaces. He will make drawings that are photocopied and acrylic transferred to canvas or wood panels. Using this as a base, Daniel will draw and paint on top, producing a surface very concentrated with imagery.
FEBRUARY 2002
$250 Paint Assortment
Melissa Staiger
tea3mel@hotmail.com
Graduate Program, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Art Professor: Gerry Hayes
Melissa proposes to make twenty large works on Okarwa paper with acrylic paint. The individual pieces will hang side by side to create a very large work approximately 6' high and 30' long. The properties of the paper used will help to determine the overall look of the piece. The goal is to create a field of color intensity that pulls the viewer in, to have them look at the nuances created by the paint.
$250 Paint Assortment
Teresa Wiseman
tessa1@ev1.net
San Jacinto College
Teresa’s project is to paint a series of advertisements for the period ranging roughly from 1900 to 2000. It will consist of nine 24 inch square canvases. Each canvas will incorporate a decade, yet also graphically integrate into the total collage, when hung in three rows of three paintings each. Colors will vary from decade to decade, reflecting the preferences of the period.
$250 Paint Assortment
Jeremy Lawson
mutton_ed@yahoo.com
Senior at Syracuse University
Art Professor: Sharon Gold
Jeremy’s paintings are heavily influenced by the composition of photographs that drawn to, as well as photo-influenced print work like silk screen graphics. He recently saw a poster exhibition of the Russian Suprematist period work with artists such as Kashmir Malevich, He was drawn to the contrasty, extremely bright polish revolutionary posters promoting multiple political figures during the early part of the twentieth century. Jeremy’s project is to relate the emotional intensity of these early posters to the vernacular of the people who could possibly vote now.
JANUARY 2002
$250 Paint Assortment
Jennifer Stewart
Sophomore at University of Colorado at Boulder
Art Professor: Katrina Davis-Salizar
Jennifer will explore the importance of size and its effect on perception by painting a series of imagined landscapes based on smaller objects. For example, she might create an entire landscape of hills and a lake based on what pebbles and a puddle would look like from a different perspective. Jennifer plans a series of approximately 10-15 paintings to explore this concept.
$250 Paint Assortment
Dale Thomas Ihnken
Graduate Student at Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Art Professor: Nanette Carter
Dale will create several installation acrylic paintings on heavy vinyl, nylon, and Plexiglas. He arranges the 3-dimensional abstract color paintings as hanging screens in space. The overall installation size may be as big as 13 by 10 feet.
$500 Paint Assortment
Jeanne Petty
Sophomore at Washtenaw Community College, MI
Art Professor: Julie Bedore
Jeanne will produce series of smaller canvases, as well as one larger image, approximately 5 by 7 feet, based on a yearlong study abroad program in Bogotá, Colombia and the historical writings of Gabriel García Márquez. Of particular interest to Jeanne is the story of the "banana massacre" where government forces massacred over a thousand plantation workers for going on strike.
Jeanne plans to use fruit as a symbol, to allude indirectly to this brutal incident and violence in general. She’ll depict images of fruit, mostly bananas, in various stages of destruction i.e. split open, peeled, smashed, etc., with some of the "violence" being done by human hands. To increase the intensity and complexity of the images, Jeanne will experiment with texture to suggest volume and thick layers of paint to imply things hidden underneath.
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