19 Tangents
2011 University of Maine at Augusta Senior Art Exhibit
The culminating art created for the Art 430 Senior Project is as complex and as varied as the students who have created it. Their unique visions have been focusing throughout their careers at the University of Maine at Augusta, but most significantly in their final two capstone semesters. Foundations in such classes as design, art history, philosophy, English, and perhaps even math, have been built upon with individual insight, comment, or challenge.
The goal of this exhibit is to show the strongest, most resolved body of artwork that each student has created thus far. Each student also presents the conceptual basis for their work in an artist statement, and leaves documentation of their accomplishments.
These artists have asked important questions regarding the human social condition, our environment and of ourselves. Some have challenged our complacency; some have celebrated our strengths and the natural world. Others have presented insights regarding human range, intent and relationship. Each artist has answered in his or her particular voice, and has made space and time in their lives and hearts to sift, distil and clarify those things that they find most urgent and compelling. “I know no better communication than art. No better means of saying so precisely those things which need so urgently to be said. It has been a baton handed on to us across centuries and through difference. It is an act of courage.” Jeanette Winterson
Take your intellect, courage, discipline, patience and desire on your journey. You have everything you need.
Karen Adrienne
Professor of Art
Curator
Beautiful.
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