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On view May 3 - July 27, 2008
2008 Yeck College Artist Fellows
This exhibition offers a special opportunity for visitors to view the work of four artists selected from area colleges. The style and medium used by each artist is distinctly different and reflects the passion of their creative energy.
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Emily French Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 2008 |
University of Dayton's, Emily French uses the flower in her artwork as a symbol of beauty and femininity, as well as life and hope. These abstracted floral paintings speak of her own personal dilemmas as an artist, a woman and a person. The flowers symbolically suggest to the viewer that even when beauty and order exist, something more chaotic can be found within.
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Nicholaus Arnold Totem w/Brain, 2007 |
Nicholaus Arnold is a printmaker attending Wright State University. Arnold’s prints reflect an anthropological study of self-imposed destruction. He uses the abstract assembly of anatomical forms to illustrate the de-formation and de-construction of the human body. Arnold reinterprets and reconstructs the form with black and white graphic images created by the woodcut printing process.
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Ren Cummings Punch Drunk (The life of a dumpster after dark series), 2007 |
Photography major Ren Cummings is also a student at Wright State University. Cummings is not interested in photographing an imaginary world; instead she prefers to photograph the unnoticed spaces of the everyday world. Looking behind the main streets, she actively seeks out spaces generally perceived as dark and possibly dangerous. She chooses not to alter or change the appearance of the photograph, but challenges the viewer to look at the subject matter in new and beautiful light.
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Sarah Rocheleau Dissection of the Fall of an Apple Seed, 2007 |
Sarah Rocheleau is from Art Academy of Cincinnati. Rocheleau creates three-dimensional collages from personal watercolor paintings, clippings from art magazines and old scientific equipment. Her collages are presented in the format of scientific specimens illustrating the life-cycle of the cicada and grasshopper. The small scale invites the viewer to move in to closely to examine the artwork and to consider the larger narrative of the microscopic world around them.
Applications for the 2009 Yeck College Artist Fellowship will be accepted until June 30, 2008. Contact 937-223-5277, ext. 335 or e-mail mwhitley@daytonartinstitute.org for more information.
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Special Opportunities & Scholarship Application
Admission: Free
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