The 2023 Chancellor's Art Gallery contains artwork created by talented SUNY students and faculty members over the past year.
The last bit of hope I'd held on to didn't diminish. For this i'm glad...
In this work, I explored figure painting, highlighted with emotions evoked in shifting hues.
This painting discusses the complexities of being a first generation Nigerian- American. It speaks about adjusting to American culture while existing in an African household and finding a balance between the two.
This work contains the regrets I have towards my grandmother that passed away. I was young and foolish. I realized it too late. If I had just one more chance to see her again, this is how I picture it to be.
As a first-year student, exhaustion was a large part of the journey in becoming accustomed with college life. Showing that range from hope and excitement for what's to come, through frustration and the willingness to give up, all the way to the satisfying ending when you could finally rest.
A classic interpretation of a still life.
I've decided to make the dark things about NYC a focal point in my paintings rather than something that's bad.
My inspiration of this work came from where I was emotionally and psychologically at the time. I was going through a lot of emotional turmoil and needed to remind myself to ground and stabilize my mind, in other words to "maintain."
This artwork explores the fusion of two cultures, Dominican and Guatemalan. The use of symbolism represents and relates to me as a person as a form of cultural identity.
Feelings of fear, fragility, powerlessness, and the stress of being in a one-sided relationship. This is a portrait of a girl caught between her inner strength and the pressures and burdens of the outside world.
This work seeks to contextualize omitted GULAG archives that have been hidden throughout Soviet and Russian histories. Through manipulating archival images with alternative photographic processes, the imagery becomes a physical vessel of memory hat has been suppressed by authoritarian regime.
In White Noise, I wanted to bring together several of my favorite techniques: printmaking, collage, and sewing. The desire to create meaning by combining materials, images, and layers has always been the focus of my work. Monotype and collagraph prints, found papers and yarn build three-dimensionality into the piece.
In Suspension of Paradise, I wanted to bring together several of my favorite techniques: printmaking, collage, and sewing. The desire to create meaning by combining materials, images, and layers has always been the focus of my work. Monotype and collagraph prints, found papers and yarn build three-dimensionality into the piece.
The body of work Terms of Use consists of thousands of images that we intended to exist momentarily in the loading process. They are captured during their state of struggle and given a place of permanence.
Our hands record the experience of life, create the script of the moment, and explore our imagination for the future.
These pieces can be displayed individually or as a group. They are mixed media, cold wax medium and oil with metal mesh and metal wire. They are abstract, focusing on color, texture and shape.
Drawing on chemigram using ink
Drawing on chemigram using ink
In Duro 12 Bulwark, two paper bags contain the same color palette painted side by side. The two pieces are mounted together in one frame. I take into consideration the passage of time and the amount of progress we make in our daily lives, even when that progress feels static.
In Duro 20 Bulwark, two paper bags contain the same color palette painted side by side. The two pieces are mounted together in one frame. I take into consideration the passage of time and the amount of progress we make in our daily lives, even when that progress feels static.
In Duro 16, each line of paint follows the contour of the paper bag resulting in embellishments that increase the further down your eye travels. I take into consideration the passage of time and the amount of progress we make in our daily lives, even when that progress feels static.
My landscapes focus on textures and temperatures of the naturally occurring aggregate and the movement of flowing water. Completed either en plein air or in the studio.
My landscapes focus on textures and temperatures of the naturally occurring aggregate and the movement of flowing water. Completed either en plein air or in the studio.
"The Rock" represents an oil study of space vs counter space that is created with a medium to low key palette with the goal to create and view negative space as positive, plus I simply just like rocks!