Daniel Ney

New Avenues

This work represents research from last semester and opening new possibilities in describing form. The piece is about a unique approach to combining unlike materials, wood & aluminum, the natural & the industrial. The wood combined together is a technique I used making Ukuleles in Hawaii. The imagery is informed by my time deployed to Iraq as well as maps and memories.

Smooth, wooden sculpture encircling a metal ring. It balances on a v-like point that emerges from the circular shape at the bottom of the piece. The metal circle is partially filled with the wood, as well.
New Avenues by Daniel Ney, MFA Sculpture Candidate

Ashley Smith

Encompassed

Knit Solid with Rust Print, Steel, Cast Iron

17″ x 10″ x 9″ 

A multi-medium art piece sits atop a podium. A bronze colored metal ball with rough texture, is couched in stiff and crumpled canvas material that looks worn. A rusty, heavy chain connects all the elements of the piece.
Encompassed by Ashley Smith

Adriane Honerbrink

Vessell III

Inspired by the interaction between man and nature, Vessell III questions the idea of balance, weight, and strength, through decorative carving and the removal of clay. Challenging New Avenues of process for myself and bringing forward new avenues of conversation. Fired in an atmospheric kiln, the surface is created with salt and flames,
giving a worn, antique look that can never fully be predicted.

Tall, clay, urn shaped vessel with decorative carvings and a nature-like pattern of a plant at the bottom created from removing clay. Imperfections highlight its natural impact.
Vessell III by Adriane Honerbrink, MFA Candidate in Art

F. C. Zuke

Cartographic Vertigo

Displayed on a monitor, maps shape shift in ways that make the viewer feel dizzy or off balance.

Moving digital art featuring shape shifting maps.
Cartographic Vertigo by F. C. Zuke
Cartographic Vertigo, Frame 1, by F. C. Zuke (a.k.a. Bryce Heesacker)
Cartographic Vertigo, Frame 2, by F. C. Zuke (a.k.a. Bryce Heesacker)

Peyton Lawler

Finding Balance

My piece is a ceramic sculptural vessel inspired by my transition into grad school in the fall 2021 semester. This new journey into my creative professional career has gently pushed me out of my comfort zone to explore new
avenues in my work. For this piece, I used a cone 6 porcelain clay body that was first fired in a neutral firing, and again in a salt reductioniring. I also utilized underglaze and nichrome wire for the surface design. The idea was to expand my ideas about control by creating an organic form that allowed me to use its surface as a canvas. Initially the neutral firing was intended to convey the need for control, but then by introducing it into an atmospheric salt firing, I let go of that need and let the material and kiln control the piece instead.

A shallow, arcing clay bowl with ragged edges. The bowl is off-white on one side and black on the other. The two sides are lashed together.
Finding Balance by Peyton Lawler, MFA Candidate
12 individually framed abstract pieces of black toner on white paper. The frames are square and black. The arrangement of the compositions are in a grid. Each has varied amounts of noise that look similar to the bars on an audio track turned horizontally.
Final Hours: Composition 10-abstracted by Anna Hite, MFA Candidate in Art

Anna Hite

Final Hours: Composition 10-abstracted

The advent of the handheld computer (smartphones) changed the way we consume media, and as a result, news media changed as well. The contemporary age is marked by its multi-temporality – its situation in the present is flavored its repetition and its timing. Now more than ever, we exist in a present marked by our emphasis of the future, leaving us in an anxiety riddled fixation on being current that makes any new release of information outdated as soon as it hits the screen.

This piece represents the stressed experience this creates, of trying to stay current in an age of constant development, movement, and divorcement from time. The twelve pieces come from one fragmented composition of multiple news images and articles layered on top of each other, all focused around a monumental event at the time of its creation – the US Capitol Hill Insurrection.