{"id":26383,"date":"2017-04-06T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26383"},"modified":"2017-04-07T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:18:42","slug":"goca-to-feature-11th-annual-senior-visual-art-majors-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26383","title":{"rendered":"GOCA to feature 11th annual senior visual art majors exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The works of 15 UCCS senior art students will be focus of UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art\u2019s 11th<\/sup> annual senior visual arts majors exhibition \u201cWays of Seeing,\u201d opening April 21 at the campus GOCA1420 gallery. A free public reception will take place 5-8 p.m. Friday, April 21<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exhibit will be on display through May 13. Gallery hours are noon – 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, or by appointment.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cWays of Seeing\u201d features the works of Marina Atchison, Susannah Barnes, Leia Belgrave, Amber Cruz, Nina Foster, Caitlin Goebel, Nathan Hodges, Frances Huntington, Collin King, Shanah Leaf, Thia Lynn, Jacob Scott\u00a0, Summer Stapleton, Nancy Vongsengkeo, and Amanda Weeks.<\/p>\n

This exhibit displays the cumulative work of these graduating students\u2019 education at UCCS. Curated, designed and installed by the Visual and Performing Arts Department graduating class, this collaborative effort spans the course of the spring semester. Students determine how and what will be displayed to best represent them as they embark on their lifelong creative paths. Working across all media, students explore movements throughout art history from their own perspective.<\/p>\n

The influential writings of poet and art historian John Berger have charmed and validated artists the world over, and at UCCS, Berger\u2019s work is incorporated directly into the curriculum. Essays including \u201cWhy Look At Animals\u201d and \u201cDrawn To That Moment\u201d are discussed in lecture and studio classes to encourage intention and attention in students\u2019 artwork. \u201cWays of Seeing\u201d shares its name with a book and a television series produced by John Berger in 1972. In both of these formats, Berger thoughtfully and intelligently opened the often prohibitive art world to audiences everywhere. Berger died Jan. 2, leaving behind some of the most gentle and insightful art critiques of the last century. As an art exhibition, \u201cWays of Seeing\u201d embodies the values of accessibility, creativity, ingenuity, intelligence, and beauty that the VAPA department at UCCS holds high.<\/p>\n

\u201cWays of Seeing\u201d showcases the work of the following student artists:<\/p>\n

Marina Atchison<\/strong>. Atchison\u2019s work recreates imagined images of the afterlife or the \u201cbetter place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Susannah Barnes<\/strong>. Barnes uses paint and paper cutting techniques to design graphic compositions that explore geometric shapes, line, space and color.<\/p>\n

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Leia Belgrave<\/strong>. Belgrave creates paintings and drawings that discuss our societies interactions with nature and pop-culture icons<\/p>\n

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Amber Cruz<\/strong>. Cruz focuses predominantly in sculpture with plaster gauze and domestic textiles.<\/p>\n

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Nina Foster<\/strong>. Foster explores concepts of memory, most recently trauma, through photography.<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Goebel<\/strong>. Goebel\u2019s work explores capitalism and consumption, simulacra and simulation, meta-reality and reality, magic and manipulation, and intimacy and wonder.<\/p>\n

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Nathan Hodges<\/strong>. Hodges\u2019 work depicts distorted and mutated organic forms inspired by his love of science, specifically evolutionary biology.<\/p>\n

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Frances Huntington<\/strong>. Huntington\u2019s artwork expresses ideas about time, spirituality, femininity and the temporality of life.<\/p>\n

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Collin King<\/strong>. Animals, anatomy, and cartoons inspire King\u2019s ink drawings and wooden sculptures.<\/p>\n

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Shanah Leaf<\/strong>. Leaf\u2019s work uses automatic drawing to reflect people\u2019s ability to process an overwhelming amount of information.<\/p>\n

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Thia Lynn<\/strong>. Lynn\u00a0 explores themes in the shadows of memory in paintings, reliefs, sculptures and installations.<\/p>\n

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Jacob Scott<\/strong>. Scott\u2019s works \u2013 painting, drawing, needlework, sculpture – draws on his life events, mythology and sexual culture.<\/p>\n

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Summer Stapleton<\/strong>. Stapleton explores the transformation of memory through recall using mixed media prints.<\/p>\n

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Nancy Vongsengkeo<\/strong>. A first-generation American-Laotian, she creates mixed-media paintings that her inner emotions of living in two different cultures.<\/p>\n

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Amanda Weeks<\/strong>. Weeks\u2019 photography explores lights and colors, often in nature, with an abstract viewpoint.<\/p>\n

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