Jose Orozco
The Paw Print
Take a trip through transpersonal experience and enjoy a black satire. This is the journey you will react to when you attend the Art Department’s senior project thesis art show.
The works of Nora McBride, Brenda Padilla, John Dodds, and David Stallings will entice you to react as they give you a rendition of media through pop-culture and iconography. If you’ve ever wanted to see who wins first place on the suicide, “You finally got one thing right!” award, or which agricultural plant won first place for abuse and mismanagement of government subsidies, or who the “Congratulations Your Still Alive! Even After Habitual Drunk Driving Offenses” award goes to, then you will be taunted by the trophy displays by John Dodds in the center of the Snook Gallery.
David Stallings had a series of doll houses composed of mixed media. Each house opened up unique to the experiences of history that the artist interpreted. The 3-d faces and hands give a touch that is almost tragic.
Nora McBride took a more childish approach her topics were not any less morbid. Her exhibit of “My little Pony” showed the use of iconographic symbols from religion and spiritual realms and melded them together with pop-culture in such a way that is a bit cryptic, confusing, yet still enjoyable. Such works as “My little Phony” and others show a different side of what pop culture says to the subconscious.
In the Hatfield Gallery, a more transpersonal experience is on display, as Brenda Padilla has a show that is explicitly laid out to give a 3-d experience of shrines and alters. This is a personal venture that the artist has experienced and grown from only to leave these parts of her life behind.
Upon exiting the gallery, you will be so confused on whether you should be crying from such emotional pieces such as “I made this bed, but can’t lye in it,” or appreciate the beautiful blossoming of an individual.
Fawn Milton-Tatro, is also displaying an installation of “Dr. Seuss” in the middle entrance to the art building. This is a playful indulgence, as you walk under fluffy clouds and brush up against the yarn tree underneath an amazing yarn sun.
It really was a great way to end the experience of walking through the art department after such emotional pieces. This is one art exhibit that you cannot miss. Especially if you’ve ever wanted to get a reaction from art that is both involving and enticing.
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