This exhibit featured work by senior Studio Art minors at Denison University.
“During my time at Denison, I have focused primarily on the ways that fiber arts relate to femininity and gender roles. Traditional “women’s work” is not often viewed as artistic or creative, but rather as “crafty” or “trivial.” Within my work, I manipulate fabric, yarn, and less traditional artistic mediums to comment on the lack of respect for symbols of femininity. My pieces are heavily influenced by feminist artists such as Miriam Schapiro and Eva Hesse.”
-Emily Coldiron
“The way we live now is scary and huge. We communicate with each other all of the time but we’re lonelier than we’ve ever been. My work tries to expose and explore the world today. The world of stylish conformity and overwhelming cultural saturation, where want and need mean the same thing. The world where love is an insanely fast response to an iMessage. We live always on the edge of relevant and irrelevant. It’s impossible to stand out now, but we’re all trying harder than ever before.”
-Tristan Eden
“As time progresses, the human body and the space it occupies become increasingly disjointed. This premise underlies much of my work, and here I have presented several pieces that address the issue. By covering, dividing, and repositioning physical objects, I attempt to unsettle common notions of space. In doing so, I also seek to challenge viewers’ understanding of the body’s spatial configuration. My two-dimensional work operates in a similar fashion, subverting the association between figure and outline to create fragmentary visual scenes. Also, while space and the body are two of my primary concerns, I view most of these pieces as explorations of how we construct meaning from our surroundings. Thus, the instability of knowledge is a consistent theme throughout my work.”
-Andrew Clement
