#ocacthesis2015

[ladymacbethlives]

Sketches. #ocacthesis2015

[ladymacbethlives]

This is what my pant leg looks like when I run lot of my studio to catch the bus. #pinsandneedles #ocacthesis2015

[ivancarmonastudio]

The building process of “Cocky” 

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Melina Bishop

Drawing on the writings of Anne Hollander about the relationship between the human body and clothing as it has been depicted in art throughout human history, Between Folds and Form is a sentence in that dialogue between the idealized folds of fabric and the intimate reality of the human forms that such drapery seeks to aestheticize and conceal. Intentionally playing on the inherent relationship between this exhibition space and a store window, the installation seeks to subvert the traditional vocabulary of retail merchandizing. Impracticality, non-functionality and peculiar details confirm that while these objects speak of commodity, they themselves are simply evocative replacements, using the viewers pre-existing associations as an inlet into their consciousness. The two main forms presented are representative of the two sides of this on-going conversation but moments of formal and material overlap suggesting that there is a space of compromise in which body informs cloth and cloth informs body in a way that is empathetic and mutually respectful.

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Christiana Hedlund

In my thesis I've worked both representationally doing realistic self portraits and more intuitively doing symbolic patterned work. The image above is still in progress but is an example of the symbolic painting I've been working on.

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Joni Yates

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Michele Krankkala

“You only hear about this place in history books” -Resident of Atlanta, Idaho.

I am currently using alternative process photography to create black and white images on glass. The images come from the two towns, Rocky Bar and Atlanta, nearly abandoned mining towns located in central Idaho.

[brittbrittart]

I did a thing in the studio this week. Just need to hop onto a computer to edit the photos and video some more.

"They Say We Come From Clay (how I make myself)", Clay slip covered hair performance. 2015