As the Art Department’s BFA/MFA Thesis Shows get ready to open in The Dorsky, we take an inside look at different strokes from different folks.
Running April 25 through April 29
Exhibiting Artists:
Sculpture
Savannah Blum
Sam DeMonte
Ceramics
Megan Gray
Painting and Drawing
Alyssa Cartwright
Kelly Kay
Laura Lanchantin
Danielle Sternberg
Jared Winslow
Photography
Taylor DiStasi
Joshua Goodrich
Kelly Novak
Printmaking
Nicole Marandola
Spotlight On Laura Lanchintan
“Back To The Garden”
Fourth-year BFA painting
Medium: oil paintings
My work is mainly about nature and the physical connection between land and body. I based the abstract imagery of these paintings off of my family’s farmland that I grew up on and feel connected to.
My main source of inspiration is my process. I collect stones from places of personal importance, grind them into earth pigment and make paint out of the actual land that I am trying to portray. My process evokes an artistic collaboration with nature that is very inspiring to me.
I would like viewers to have a familiar physical reaction to these abstract images. I want them to be almost gut wrenching but also comforting.