END OF YEAR REVIEWS / Presentations:

GROUP 2:

Lizzy Rives

Neya McCracken

Paula Wharton

Nathan’s Notes on the Presentations:

Sadly, these reviews were not recorded.

Lizzy:
Get into the laboratory and do some experiments with surface quality using mediums - stand oil, sun-dried linseed oil.
“The romance of being an artist is about materiality”
Renewed interest in the red/green palette as a way to make atmosphere humid. This only came in the second year in the revisiting of it.
Courtney’s comment about Lizzy’s work “I’m interested in the relationship between freedom and constraint. In your work you exhibit so much freedom.” The tension between the focus/constraint of interpretation and its inception in the inventive setups.

Neya:
Love letter
MFA required the ‘performance of profundity’
“I was hungry to not know what I was doing”
On returning to the still life motif many times - “…something that iterates, that is alive as long as I continue to interact with it.”
On the still life epic - the lesson of temperature zones produced from ‘keying’ the light
“Being in the color lab is a place of stability” “I don’t have to have a profound thing to say.”
“The object is not to make art, but to set up your life so that making art is inevitable” - Quote from author I don’t remember
Claudia on Neya’s work “It’s melodic, like a song”
Christen - “don’t let your MFA make you quit art”
Ashley Johnson - “As painters we get to have these objects that are ok with us being slow, sick, or tired. And they wait for us”

Paula:
Life room monitor and in the Atelier for 4 years!
Use of broad materials with a focus on accessibility - many of these are extremely saturated mediums. The approach makes fresh images with unexpected decisions
Used collage as a way to access image making
Journey from rendered drawings to current work
“All these dead quail look so sexy - ugh!” - Paula on starting a Deheem copy
“You come into life room like a ninja- your work is a quiet revolution” - Kimmy T on Paula’s work.