Exhibit Features Student Art
Ellen Tremaine
Issue date: 1/31/06 Section: features
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Versus Magazine Online [Image Edition]
The Studio Art Exhibit, held at the new Studio Art Center on Sunday, December 4th, showcased a collection of art by Vanderbilt students. This end-of-semester event features work students create throughout the semester in a variety of Studio Art classes, with everything from photography to ceramics to multimedia.
Brian Hoffman, a junior enrolled in the Drawing & Composition class, sketched a charcoal drawing entitled "Priorities." The assignment was to unite two unrelated images together into one drawing. Hoffman's drawing featured the glitzy "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign superimposed with a picture of a young orphan in Sudan. Hoffman chose the two juxtaposing images to highlight the disparity between the wealth and poverty that the two represent. "It compares how people waste so much money in Las Vegas every day to the poverty and turmoil that continues in Africa," Hoffman said.
Sophomore Matt Walker's photo entitled "Mallard, portal view" taken for his Alternative Photography class, featured a duck photographed through a drainage pipe. Students experimented with taking pictures through a variety of objects to achieve an original framing for a photo subject. "It's like a spotlight in reverse," Walker said. "Instead of casting light on an object, you're cutting out everything else. It draws attention to what you want the viewer to see." The class, taught by Prof. Libby Rowe, offered "a different way of approaching subjects, instead of the traditional point-and-shoot method," Walker stated.
Contact Info for artists:
Matt Walker: 407-592-0662
Sophomore, lives in McGill
Brian Hoffman: 301-807-3371
Junior, lives in Beta House
The Studio Art Exhibit, held at the new Studio Art Center on Sunday, December 4th, showcased a collection of art by Vanderbilt students. This end-of-semester event features work students create throughout the semester in a variety of Studio Art classes, with everything from photography to ceramics to multimedia.
Brian Hoffman, a junior enrolled in the Drawing & Composition class, sketched a charcoal drawing entitled "Priorities." The assignment was to unite two unrelated images together into one drawing. Hoffman's drawing featured the glitzy "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign superimposed with a picture of a young orphan in Sudan. Hoffman chose the two juxtaposing images to highlight the disparity between the wealth and poverty that the two represent. "It compares how people waste so much money in Las Vegas every day to the poverty and turmoil that continues in Africa," Hoffman said.
Sophomore Matt Walker's photo entitled "Mallard, portal view" taken for his Alternative Photography class, featured a duck photographed through a drainage pipe. Students experimented with taking pictures through a variety of objects to achieve an original framing for a photo subject. "It's like a spotlight in reverse," Walker said. "Instead of casting light on an object, you're cutting out everything else. It draws attention to what you want the viewer to see." The class, taught by Prof. Libby Rowe, offered "a different way of approaching subjects, instead of the traditional point-and-shoot method," Walker stated.
Contact Info for artists:
Matt Walker: 407-592-0662
Sophomore, lives in McGill
Brian Hoffman: 301-807-3371
Junior, lives in Beta House