While working on Bowrain (2010), a large - scale installation involving
hundreds of pieces of wood wired together, I realized that my aesthetic is pretty close to the Groobees»: visual decisions arise out of necessity or limitation, rather than vision.
Lets see; worship a naked jew nailed to a
piece of wood — human sacrifice — ,... eat the body and drink the blood - cannibalism — ... and hang gruesome parts
of peoples bodies from jars for
hundreds of years.
This opposition by the Amalekites, at that time, is given as a reason, that the men, women, infants and sucklings, sheep and oxen, camels and asses, that were born four
hundred years afterward, should be put to death; and to complete the horror, Samuel hewed Agag, the chief
of the Amalekites, in
pieces, as you would hew a stick
of wood.
The Spring 2018 Graduate Theses Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery highlights the works
of seven graduate students: Alexandra Cao Ying, MFA, Studio Arts, Let One
Hundred Flowers Blossom, # 087, oil on panel, 6x6 inches; Bianka Miranda, MFA, Studio Arts, Aa, acrylic on panel, 18x24 inches; Gabriela Melendez, MA, Studio Arts, Beneath the Skin,
wood, plaster, silicone, 34x16x72 inches; Raquel Rojas, MFA, Studio Arts, Aborto, acrylic on canvas, 9x12 inches; Saul Aguilera, MFA, Studio Arts, En Los Tiempos de Las Golondrinas: Sun Frida, mixed media; Sean Kelly, MFA, Studio Arts, Mythic Landscape, (detail
pieces of two - part installations) ceramic,
wood, 78x99x51 inches and 78x39x39 inches; Teresa Carrasco, MFA, Studio Arts, Shoot Em Up Bang Bang!
Taking inspiration from the age - old process
of burning
wood that has its origins in the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban technique, the Quick • Step team burned
hundreds of pieces of pine to achieve the perfect color and texture.