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TEST LAYOUT 2 - 2013 Online Student Exhibition (by Patty)
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FIRST PLACE JEREMY THOMPSON University of Wisconsin, Stevens Pt. Stevens Pt, Wisconsin Conveyor | My most recent work is a series of useless machines. It is difficult to conceive a device that does nothing and has no purpose, yet every day a new industrial practice is implemented that’s beneficial to few. Although mass production proves fruitful for pocket books, the kerf of production is dumped on the masses and true needs are overlooked. Everyone has a chair to sit in, but we’re still hungry. Having the viewer interact with a kinetic glass piece directly involves them with the fragility of the issue at hand.
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MORGAN CHIVERS University of Texas Arlington. Arlington, Texas Particular Pulse | NO STATEMENT
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MENG DU Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, New York Untitled | Between transparent and translucent, the obscured beauty of glass recalls my senses to my memories of the past. To be a narrator to tell these memories and the stories, I plan to make the three dimensional works which would be human figure glass sculptures in different scales. The shapes of the figures come from memories of my childhood. The apparel, the appearance, and the posture all embody the characteristics of traditional Chinese figures and shapes from different periods of Chinese history. I have gathered many found objects during my foreign travels, during visit to flea markets, and by collecting the castoffs of friends and relatives. Their background stories are the sources of my inspiration. By pairing the glass figures with these found objects, I want to convey a feeling of nostalgia for the fragments in my memory which have been gradually fading away.
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KAILA MOCK Emporia State University. Emporia, Kansas Use Extreme Caution | The work I make, whether in glass, sculpture, photography or mixed media, often deals with highly personal and sometimes deeply distressing subject matter, I find that the act of making can be cathartic. My working process is methodical, disciplined, repetitive and logical, which is my attempt to impose order on the chaos, on the anguish, on the suffering, on the sorrow that frequently characterize my content. While my work derives from personal experiences, private emotions and a position of profound interiority, I try to create pieces that hover between the obvious and the ambiguous, between the private and the public, between the abject and the aesthetic.
JILL ALLAN Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, Ohio
Promises to Keep | I think of myself as a hybrid: designer - craft maker – artist. I love the idea of crossover. For a long time I struggled with the urge to do all three, seeing it as a problem. But now I see, from a different perspective, the rich, strong quality that my work has because of this crossover of approach. My work is quiet, based in the craft tradition of vessel making, but not exclusively functional. I am interested in designing with light both for public sculpture and also for the home. Often my work rolls around and rocks back and forth, and while it is not overtly conceptual I believe that this subtle but significant characteristic abstracts the form and certainly the function.
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