I have always had an immense love for traditional art. As I grew older, my interest in stylized, digitally-created, illustration grew stronger. Digital painting is a convenient way to map out a vision for a larger-scale, hand-painted piece. For my capstone project, I created poster-sized comics based on my experiences working in the service industry. I have worked as a server and bartender for almost half my life; it is all I have ever known. Read more…
Art has always had a meditative effect on me—attempting to reconstruct the physical world and its properties forces me to stay in the present moment. My body of work consists of drawings, paintings, and animations. Art has always had a meditative effect on me—attempting to reconstruct the physical world and its properties forces me to stay in the present moment. This struggle between the mental plane and the physical plane is one of my driving Read more…
“I do not want to make just a likeness of someone, rather my goal is to capture the essence of the identity of my subject.” In my last semester at UNH, my work has focused on Portraiture. I do not want to make just a likeness of someone, rather my goal is to capture the essence of the identity of my subject. Through contrasts, composition and mark I can begin to allude to the meaning Read more…
In my four years at UNH my work as an oil painter has grown in many amazing ways. One way that is demonstrated in the work included in this exhibition is my ever increasing use of bright and bold colors. I am a bright and bold person and overtime I have been able to reveal this through my use of unpredictable shapes, and intense color. I see myself in these paintings. Many of my paintings Read more…
I am an illustrator with a passion for the creepy and fantastical. As an aspiring concept artist and game developer, I have been fascinated with creatures of all shapes and sizes since childhood. In my art, I am interested in exploring form and anatomy. In classes, my favorite assignments involve drawing from models and figuring out the human body. From gesture to linear studies to drawings over multiple classes, studying the human form and the way it moves is challenging Read more…
“By focusing on simplification of the observed form and shapes in my recent works, my intent is for the viewer to get a sense of the essence of the subject rather than simply see a recreation.” My work at UNH has been about breaking down the walls that have been built in my own mind. Prior to taking college studio courses, I tried to create exactly what I saw in front of me rather than Read more…
I have a very pure love of clay…I do not like to plan out the majority of my thrown pieces instead I feel out the form as the clay permits. I have a very pure love of clay. I go about my art in a free and fluid way so it can be both meditative and creatively challenging. Working with abstract ideas, like many in this collection, has been very therapeutic for me in letting Read more…
Often described as poetic, Lansing’s photographs subtly blur the border between a documentation of reality and an emotional state. Artist’s Statement Sometimes images come to me. I’ll be sitting around or walking my dog or listening to music or watching the sunset and the rods and cones in my pineal gland will reveal to me something that I think is emotionally moving. It is always in response to how I’m feeling. After that, I set Read more…
