Curatorial Projects
Hannah Fitzgerald
This series explores personal relationships. These associations can shape identity and create balances of influence and self-discovery. Describing a connection is difficult because of the complexity of emotions and the impact that occurs. The placement of each piece represents the physical being of someone. The position creates a physical relationship with the viewer. The use of titles, specific names reinforces the individual soul in conjunction with the mapping of said relationship. Using abstraction through the forms creates an understanding of this. Juxtaposing natural and synthetic materials emphasize differences in a person while the free-form pieces maintain the individuality of someone.
ALL ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Logan Baldauf
This self-portrait was made by projecting a photo of myself onto a canvas and using that as a guide. My aim was to make a piece that was created in the style of pop art with the visual aesthetic of a Warhol portrait, while still utilizing my own excessive color-heavy imagery. As I see it, “Love Me“ feels like my own portrait of Dorian Gray with the added glamour of Jackie Curtis.
What is The Class?
Over the course of the semester, the Curatorial Projects class will learn fundamentals about what it means to be a curator, whether it be a small community curator or one who works in a well known museum. They will learn all elements of what goes into an exhibition; the physical, ideological, conceptual and aesthetic relationships that are established among the works in a successful gallery or museum show. By the end of this semester, the class will have successfully put on the Assembled Identities: a Community Collection, a show meant to represent all of the CCAD community.
All About Us
Madison Bregitzer
My piece is a portrait that depicts myself as an evil doll. This is inspired by my love for the iconic horror characters Chucky and Annabelle. The horror genre has a major influence on my work, and I love to create artworks that can convey an eerie atmosphere. In this piece, I believe I achieved creating an unsettling appearance through the inclusion of stitching and a missing eye. This sinister, eerie theme is seen throughout my body of work.
Damion Sellers
As an artist, I've heard many times before that most of my work is equally as horrid to look at as It is enthralling. I believe that the grotesque nature of dark art attracts attention. I like to incorporate lots of details into mangled messes of human forms paired with unsettling backgrounds, moods, and colors. It's like “looking at a car crash” almost, the picture is unsettling to see but you just can't help but look at it.
To focus more on this piece I submitted, It's a call out to the black tendrils of "melancholy" that haunt me and invade my head. It makes me depressed, most times without a cause. I then become furious over little things, often things that were taken the wrong way, or just made up from some conspiracy. Feelings of overwhelming paranoia, also forged from conspiracies, invade me and I feel like I'm going to be killed at any second. For only a short amount of time, I feel ecstatic, but even then it's way too much for myself and others, and then it's just gone. Most of all, I'm trying to hold onto nostalgia because it's the only thing that makes me feel like a person again.
Natalie Stastny
I wanted to make something that talked about internalized homophobia and how it ends up burning us all in the end.
Leela Waters
This piece explores the idea of coping after a traumatic event and an evolving sense of self. The use of mixed media represents the malleability of identity, as well as the complexity of recovery. The assortment of found objects and cigarette butts woven together explores healthy and unhealthy means of coping while adapting to circumstances. Bright colors throughout the piece make it overwhelming to look at to convey the discomfort of healing.
Anna Herbert
The group of shot glasses is placed haphazardly around an empty liquor bottle. I think this piece is sort of my identity as an artist, representing the dynamics between comfort and discomfort that is always prevalent in the art I make.
Victoria Van Buskirk
I was told to make a piece that was an accurate representation of myself without using a picture of my face. I decided to go back to my roots to help out with my terrible burnout at the time. I started with the marker dragon, with this being one of the first art supplies I ever used. I wanted this to be the main focus of the piece. This describes the fight that all of us have, one between good and evil. I wanted the mirror to show that pieces of me will reflect on you and likewise. Next is the watercolor dragon body. This being one of my favorite materials I didn’t want it to take up the whole piece because it is one of my favorite materials I don’t use it as much as I would like. The next touch was the tissue paper and embroidery. I decided to spite all the old artists and make it so that people can touch the art piece. Lastly, I chose the canvas, painted it black, and decorated it with glitter and gold to draw the audience into the piece.
No Meaning.
Jay Jugler
Hi, My name is Jay Jugler and I am a photographer based in Columbus, Ohio. I work in a mix of subject matter and technique. I have recently turned my focus into experimental photography with a focus on portraiture. I use the work I create in the subjects and I link in alternative processing to create photographs with a very different look to them.
In my recent work, I experiment with lighting techniques and long exposures. I often use strobe lighting kits with gel overlays. While using these I will shoot my portraits at long exposure ranging from 1-second exposures to 8-second exposures. This style of shooting gives the appearance of double exposure while still retaining a single photograph without editing.
On top of this digital style of portraiture, I also shoot in not only 35 mm but 120 films as well. The experimentation between small and medium format shooting allows me to have a wide range of experimentation with post-shooting work. I use my film shot portraits in standard photo development, gum bichromate, and solar fast processing. I also appreciate grouping in hand-coloring using different materials such as watercolors and ink to create multimedia pieces.
I focus on fine art photography, but I intend to utilize these techniques to create documentary photography soon. I hope to bring back the use of film shooting and post-production techniques to create cohesive and important documents of the world and beautiful pieces of art to hopefully bring focus and attention to important world issues.
Jess Schwarz
I'm Jess Schwarz, a 20-year-old, disabled, Appalachian,
A midwest-based artist who spends my days studying for my BFAs in Art History and Fine Arts. In the future, I hope to curate galleries and museums, in new and innovative ways that combine art and historical popular culture. Currently, my research focus is on Appalachian folk art, as my family lineage lies in the region. I believe it's an underrepresented area in not only academia but in museum and gallery spaces nationwide. I also like to study different subcultures such as the Riot Grrrl and Goth movements, due to my personal relationship with music and aesthetics. In addition, my artistic focus is based on my expression of life as a disabled person with autism, as well as being an LGBT+ person, and cataloging my memories from growing up.
For the x-ray pieces:
This work explores the experience of being a disabled young person, as well as the
mental and physical toll of having medical implants inside the body. Following a narrative structure with both preoperative and postoperative imagery, the metal
frames represent the metal implants and the waxed cord represent post-surgical
sutures. By referencing the visuals of a medical x-ray combined with metalworking and printing techniques, the work takes the abstract aspects of intense surgical procedures and combines it with the literal imagery of MRI’s and x-ray images.
For the tall metal pieces:
This work explores the experience of language processing as someone on the autism spectrum and the prejudice involved with having an Appalachian dialect. Imposing metal structures are posed with harsh, hostile lighting. Using letters as their form, rather than for function, they become obscured architecture, illegible, much like the experience of dealing with language processing obstacles. Further, using metal, a cold, man-made, harsh material, the letters become hostile and imposing to the viewer, conveying the difficult and anxious nature of having not only a prejudice against accent and dialect, but having the obstacle of spectrum-related language issues compounded by that.
Haleigh Karr
These wooden base stools are a representation of individual differences, and how as a community we can work together to live in harmony.
Lease Hart
Lease Hart is a 2D Animator from Toledo, OH. She is going for her BFA in Animation with a minor in Illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design. Some hobbies of hers outside of art include dancing, roller skating, fashion/makeup, and reading graphic novels.
Lease is passionate about making relatable connections through her art. She does this by representing a diverse and inclusive variety of identities throughout her work. As a queer, Mexican-American artist herself, seeing your identity represented accurately is important to feel needed in this world. She knows the feeling of wanting to be seen and heard throughout the general media.
Jonathan Riles
Jonathan Riles (b.1997 in Columbus, Ohio) is an award-winning filmmaker and sound designer whose work surveys the abstractions of nostalgic memory. He combines stop-motion animation and digital graphics to create surreal kinetic portraits of the readymade.
Riles grew up in the Hocking Hills, where he discovered his passion for theatre. After performing in various plays and musicals, Riles decided to take a more "behind the scenes'' approach to storytelling, and eventually earned his BFA in Filmmaking Production at Syracuse University. His thesis project earned a Bryan Buckley Production Grant, and he graduated Summa cum laude from his college.
During this time, Covid-19 had just shut down the majority of the media industry and academic colleges all over the world. Riles returned to Appalachia to assist with family and work remotely in isolation. After a year of building his animation portfolio, Riles returned to scholarship and artmaking full-time at the Columbus College of Art and Design, where he is now pursuing his MFA in Visual Arts.
Riles's animation films have screened on 6 continents, and his installation works have been featured in venues such as The Palettes of Keuka Art Tour in Hammondsport NY, and the MACA Contemporary Art Museum of Alicante, Spain. He currently serves as the founder and key animator of Shelluster Studios.
Joshua Morgan
The paintings document life after…, one's journey after unexpected life-events and embody the efforts one undergoes in rebuilding trust, intuition, and faith within oneself. The abstracted weaving of colors exhibits the daily processing one endures when reconstructing one's ideals, beliefs, and self-standards. Focusing on Phenomenology, Ontology, and Epistemology the paintings provide a labyrinth or color theory to the audience to experience regarding their own experiences.
Avri Thomas
My name is Avri Thomas. I am a 21-year-old painter based in Columbus, Ohio. I am currently working on completing a BFA in Fine Arts. In my current practice, I am creating works about belongings and spaces portraying who an individual may be through the space they occupy. I believe that there is a beauty in the clutter that our belongings take up, and I find the idea of nostalgia and collections interesting. In making these connections between the subject and their belongings, I want to allow these still-life portraits to introduce the viewer and the subject.
Pronouns she/her and Instagram is @artsyavs
River Berry
This work is meant to comfort. The traditional use of quilting techniques reflects his strength and resilience during his ongoing battle with cancer. In the center of the quilt is a cyanotype print on fabric surrounded by metal religious charms, polymer clay faux pills, and faux teeth. The embellishment of the quilt honors my uncle’s struggle while confronting pharmaceutical companies' moral standing.
Tessa Newsome
A story of the way the world grows while we do and the changes and choices we have to decide for the hope of happiness.
Falling in love and dealing with depression all at once, self-sabotaging but trying your best, looking at yourself but being lost in your head.
The feeling of always being trapped never getting to be as free as you would want to, looking out onto the freedom of the world from a dimly lit room.
Nina Wells
Nina (9) Wells is a multimedia artist dedicated to highlighting their life in color. Inspired by performance art, nature, and identity, 9 loves to express themselves in as many ways as possible. I am thankful for the hands of the people who have touched my soul in this life. I often feel like an alien, but I wouldn’t be myself without the people who I’ve crossed paths with.