LEWISTON — Fourteen studio art majors at Bates College will show work from their yearlong thesis projects — from pencil drawing to digital painting — in the annual Senior Exhibition.
The exhibit will open with a public reception at 6 p.m. Friday, April 6, in the Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St.
Besides embracing a bold assortment of media, this year’s artists explore conceptual interests ranging from a pure concern with form and color to questions of multinational self-identity and humanity’s environmental impacts.
Participating artists are Claire Banks of Belfast, who creates abstract images by layering paint chips, newspaper fragments, frosted Mylar, wallpaper and paint; Liana Blum of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., who has assembled her photographs of women into a sort of altarpiece; and Kelsey Dion of Truckee, Calif., who makes and arranges ceramic tiles arranged into unified, dynamic compositions;
Catherine Elliott of Edina, Minn., who crafts functional yet artistically complex pieces of stoneware; Liane Fitzgerald of Chilmark, Mass., who prints forms inspired by the ocean onto found nautical maps; and Jee Hye Kim of Fort Lee, N.J., whose paintings and collages depict imaginary worlds inspired by running water;
Kimberly “Tobi” Liaw of Ontario, Calif., who paints digitally; Deborah S. Mack of Tarrytown, N.Y., whose terra cotta sculptures evolved from her interest in representing the human body, and the realization that hands resemble tree parts; and Katharine Maxwell of Newton, Mass., whose photographs bear clear references to architecture;
Ellie McDonald of Manchester, Mass., who describes herself as “fascinated by every part of a face;” Sophy Min of Yangon, Burma, whose work reflects her identity as a Chinese person raised in Myanmar and now living in the United States; Caroline Sheridan of Providence, R.I.; Emma Stevens-Smith of San Francisco, who exploits an intentional loss of the comfort she finds in control; and Kaitlin Weinman of Califon, N.J., who creates settings of “twisted domesticity” within cardboard boxes.
The exhibition runs through May 26. Admission is free. Regular museum hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, call 786-6158 or visit www.bates.edu/museum.
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- This mixed media piece, titled “Khin Ohnmar Min,” was done by Bates art major Sophy Min. Drawn to bright colors, Min balances traditional patterns and pop culture in her work. She arranges fabrics, tape and glitter into grids on canvas, manipulates these compositions in Photoshop and returns to canvas for the final rendering. “The titles are the various names I am called in the different cultures I’ve been immersed in,” she said.
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