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Back Pack
No full textBack Pack, made of found items, measures 12 by 6 inches.
Artist’s Statement I am a junior at Linfield College, getting a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. During my time at Linfield, I have played soccer, joined a sorority, and began pursuing a second licensure. Two of my class requirements to fulfill my major were Art 310 and Art 311. In these classes we focused on studying art history and learning about a myriad of artists from 1874 until now. During this class I began loving history of different artists and their work, so it was clear to me I wanted to incorporate what I had learned into my final body of work. In my collection, I aim for people to take a step back and look at historical art in the eyes of the 21st century versus the time period in which they were originally painted.
My first piece being a recreation of Starry Night by Van Gogh turned into Smoky Night, which addressed the issues our world is facing against oil refineries. I wanted to turn Van Gogh’s masterpiece into a piece that forced the audience to see what refineries are doing to our atmospheres.
As I continued working with social issues, I moved to another widely known piece by Edvard Munch, The Scream. In this piece I wanted to address drugs as emotional pain relievers. In the 21st century, more people are using unprescribed medication in hopes to relieve pain, stay up to do assignments, or for fun. In this piece I placed a prescription bottle in The Scream’s hand, as he is sighing in relief of whatever he was facing.
Continuing, I moved to another well-known artist, Frida Kahlo. In this piece I tried a new medium, Photoshop, to create my intended piece. I started with Kahlo’s piece Self Portrait, Dedicated to Dr Eloesser, and from there I utilized Photoshop in order to clear Frida’s skin, make her face thinner, add makeup, get rid of excess facial hair, and remove her unibrow. This piece was created in hopes of showing the audience how the 21st century is more focused on looking perfect and meeting unrealistic standards through social media outlets.
My next piece was a personal piece to what I am studying within my education major. This piece is based off of Jana Sterbak’s piece Sisyphus Sport. This piece was a large rock with backpack straps attached to it. As I made this piece it reflected the heavy coursework teachers assign in order to get through all of the required Common Core standards per year. I wanted the audience to reflect on what is required of students through this piece.
As our world made a rapid change during the COVID-19 crisis, I decided to rework a Pablo Picasso piece titled Woman Sitting Near a Window. This piece was also a personal piece because it felt so relevant to my life currently. To this piece all I added was a simple white face mask, because the whole world currently is stuck behind these masks to protect us from a virus. While stuck at home after being sent home, I began to become fixated on the coronavirus as all other world issues began to take a back seat to this pandemic. This inspired my final piece recreated after Millworkers, by LS Lowry. This piece originally was a factory full of people and life that I changed into a factory that was empty due to the pandemic, and the eeriness felt so similar to that of the world right now.
This body of work has been a very exciting opportunity for me to put together my love of art history and test out my own art skills while using mediums and styles I may not be comfortable with. I took this work on as a time where I could try new things while succeeding and failing in order to find the pieces that mean most to me. Now that I have completed this body of work, I hope to begin to teach students about art in history and about how what they do can have an impact on people everywhere.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/arts_reconnecting/1042/thumbnail.jp
Self Portrait Dedicated to Social Media
No full textSelf Portrait Dedicated to Social Media, a piece created using Photoshop®, measures 11 by 18 inches.
Artist’s Statement I am a junior at Linfield College, getting a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. During my time at Linfield, I have played soccer, joined a sorority, and began pursuing a second licensure. Two of my class requirements to fulfill my major were Art 310 and Art 311. In these classes we focused on studying art history and learning about a myriad of artists from 1874 until now. During this class I began loving history of different artists and their work, so it was clear to me I wanted to incorporate what I had learned into my final body of work. In my collection, I aim for people to take a step back and look at historical art in the eyes of the 21st century versus the time period in which they were originally painted.
My first piece being a recreation of Starry Night by Van Gogh turned into Smoky Night, which addressed the issues our world is facing against oil refineries. I wanted to turn Van Gogh’s masterpiece into a piece that forced the audience to see what refineries are doing to our atmospheres.
As I continued working with social issues, I moved to another widely known piece by Edvard Munch, The Scream. In this piece I wanted to address drugs as emotional pain relievers. In the 21st century, more people are using unprescribed medication in hopes to relieve pain, stay up to do assignments, or for fun. In this piece I placed a prescription bottle in The Scream’s hand, as he is sighing in relief of whatever he was facing.
Continuing, I moved to another well-known artist, Frida Kahlo. In this piece I tried a new medium, Photoshop, to create my intended piece. I started with Kahlo’s piece Self Portrait, Dedicated to Dr Eloesser, and from there I utilized Photoshop in order to clear Frida’s skin, make her face thinner, add makeup, get rid of excess facial hair, and remove her unibrow. This piece was created in hopes of showing the audience how the 21st century is more focused on looking perfect and meeting unrealistic standards through social media outlets.
My next piece was a personal piece to what I am studying within my education major. This piece is based off of Jana Sterbak’s piece Sisyphus Sport. This piece was a large rock with backpack straps attached to it. As I made this piece it reflected the heavy coursework teachers assign in order to get through all of the required Common Core standards per year. I wanted the audience to reflect on what is required of students through this piece.
As our world made a rapid change during the COVID-19 crisis, I decided to rework a Pablo Picasso piece titled Woman Sitting Near a Window. This piece was also a personal piece because it felt so relevant to my life currently. To this piece all I added was a simple white face mask, because the whole world currently is stuck behind these masks to protect us from a virus. While stuck at home after being sent home, I began to become fixated on the coronavirus as all other world issues began to take a back seat to this pandemic. This inspired my final piece recreated after Millworkers, by LS Lowry. This piece originally was a factory full of people and life that I changed into a factory that was empty due to the pandemic, and the eeriness felt so similar to that of the world right now.
This body of work has been a very exciting opportunity for me to put together my love of art history and test out my own art skills while using mediums and styles I may not be comfortable with. I took this work on as a time where I could try new things while succeeding and failing in order to find the pieces that mean most to me. Now that I have completed this body of work, I hope to begin to teach students about art in history and about how what they do can have an impact on people everywhere.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/arts_reconnecting/1038/thumbnail.jp
4/4
No full text4/4, oil on canvas, measures 16 by 20 inches.
Artist Statement To Grieve Means to Love
This body of work requires some context of my past endeavors. A very clear representation of such is the travel journal and short film I created following the handful of months I spent in New Zealand. The film, titled The Year without Summer, is an accumulation of journal pages of drawings and writing I worked on while I was there, music that was the soundtrack of my adventures, and videos and photos taken during that time. My own memories, ever shifting, are physically manifested and contrasted with how they are documented in the journal and the tone of the music and videos. This film and the journal itself provide context for the paintings that make up the rest of my portfolio.
My subject is myself. To understand my work, it is vital to gain some understanding of who I am. My name is Caroline, I am studying Studio Art, Visual Studies, and Marketing, and I come from a particularly large family. I’ve never been very far from home. However, life is short, the world is large, and nothing you can do can stop the constant stream of time. I decided to go abroad, specifically to New Zealand, because of my family. Four years ago, my brother passed away due to suicide. Since that day, death has been a voice whispering in the wind. My family took her advice: to take every opportunity and to always love one another. My brother, never far from my thoughts, was one of the main motivators in choosing to go to New Zealand. Associating him with the beauty I found there was a way to better understand myself and my grief. This collection of work is a way to look deeper inside myself in order to start processing my own identity and trauma through visual means.
Memories are important, especially during this time of unrest. I’m interested in how memories change through time and reflection, especially those born from my time abroad and what emotions come from that experience. There is no one way to interpret a memory, just as there is no one way to interpret a piece of art. Reality is not set in stone. How do pieces connect with each other and connect further to my identity? How does time change the understanding of something?
My portfolio first and foremost is a way to begin to look at my own identity as it is influenced by trauma, situations and adventures I experience. It almost seems narcissistic, but I fully embrace this time in my life where everything may be uncertain. I am fortunate enough to have an outlet in art to explore my experiences, despite current events of a global pandemic. Art has always been an important tool in self-discovery and expression. My intentions are to use my own image to express larger themes that hold importance to myself.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/arts_reconnecting/1020/thumbnail.jp
The Art of Self Repair
No full textThe Art of Self Repair is tattoo art.
Artist\u27s Statement I’m Krysten Baryo, and I am a junior here at Linfield College, I am pursuing my undergraduate degree in Studio Art and Philosophy with a minor in Visual Studies. I enjoy making art in various mixed mediums as it relates to current events and personal happenings. I hope to be able to inspire questions and conversation with my art pieces, in a way that there may not be a correct answer but certainly different ones for different onlookers.
Before coming to Linfield, I studied art at Portland Community College where I explored the 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional worlds of art. This is where I realized that creating art and putting it out into the world is something that I should be doing as much as possible, and for as long as possible. I like to keep the mediums I work with varied, as it allows for new and extended possibilities in what can be created. This year, I have primarily worked with concepts relating to creating from destruction, and fixing projects from broken concepts in order to make something entirely new, leading to my ultimate statement for this spring show. The Art of Self-Repair
This semester I have been greatly inspired by the idea and process surrounding the Japanese technique kintsukuroi. Kintsukuroi is a process used often to repair broken pottery using a lacquer made of gold or another precious metal, effectively making the piece more beautiful after the repair than it was before having been broken.
The idea of an object being beautiful even after breaking is one I wanted to highlight in my recent works. Metaphorically I believe this is a beautiful concept, especially in a time when so many humans feel broken or undervalued, and in the kintsukuroi process instead of hiding the fractures they are actually highlighted. It was this thought process that inspired me to do this work consisting of a mix of mediums including a take on traditional kintsukuroi, and other pieces inspired by the process.
Leading up to the final project within this statement, I realized that the metaphor began to matter much more than the medium in my current art endeavors. I decided to teach myself how to do small scale tattooing, and used gold ink to fill in the self-harm scars on my own body. This, along with the other pieces in this portfolio, I did as a testament to self-repair, and the idea that being broken does not equate to a reason to be tossed out or given up on. This is an art piece that I will carry with me everywhere, giving others the opportunity to ask “why” something so simple and not easily understood would be tattooed on my skin. Because of this, I will be able to share my efforts in encouraging self-repair through conversation and example for years to come.
For the rest of this semester I focused on making art that has been inspired by the current events regarding the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This, in part is because it is so prevalent and unplanned that it felt like something that art must be made about, and also because in the art of self-healing it is important to address yourself in the contexts that you’re in. In this way, I’ve hoped to create a timeline of how the latter half of this semester has felt as a student continuing to study online during a time in which so many things are out of control.https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/arts_reconnecting/1005/thumbnail.jp
Selwyn Spray Interview
No full textThis interview is an oral history conducted by Rich Schmidt with Selwyn Spray. This phone interview took place on March 17, 2020.
The interview was conducted as part of Linfield University\u27s project celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Streak. Linfield\u27s football team has not had a losing record in a season since 1955, an unprecedented run of success. These interviews are with people who contributed to the 1956 Linfield team that won the conference championship and began The Streak.
Linfield team working on this project include: Matthew Hodges (\u2706), Rich Schmidt, Kevin Curry (\u2792), Mike Lempner, Kiana Anderson (\u2720), and Zell Burke (\u2723)
Cliff Allen Interview
No full textThis interview is an oral history conducted by Rich Schmidt with Cliff Allen. The interview took place at Mr. Allen\u27s home on March 12, 2020.
The interview was conducted as part of Linfield University\u27s project celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Streak. Linfield\u27s football team has not had a losing record in a season since 1955, an unprecedented run of success. These interviews are with people who contributed to the 1956 Linfield team that won the conference championship and began The Streak.
Linfield team working on this project include: Matthew Hodges (\u2706), Rich Schmidt, Kevin Curry (\u2792), Mike Lempner, Kiana Anderson (\u2720), and Zell Burke (\u2723)
Coy Zimmerman Interview
No full textThis interview is an oral history conducted by Rich Schmidt with Coy Zimmerman. The interview took place at Linfield University on January 23, 2020.
The interview was conducted as part of Linfield University\u27s project celebrating the 65th anniversary of The Streak. Linfield\u27s football team has not had a losing record in a season since 1955, an unprecedented run of success. These interviews are with people who contributed to the 1956 Linfield team that won the conference championship and began The Streak.
Linfield team working on this project include: Matthew Hodges (\u2706), Rich Schmidt, Kevin Curry (\u2792), Mike Lempner, Kiana Anderson (\u2720), and Zell Burke (\u2723)
crisscrossing Science Episode 100: The C Note
No full textIn this episode, Mike Crosser (professor of physics at Linfield College) and Chad Tillberg (professor of biology at Linfield College) celebrate the 100th episode of crisscrossing Science by reflecting back on some of their favorite moments over the last four years
Favorite Food Places + Connemara
Get PDFPostcard from Jessica Lopez, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the National University of Ireland, Galwa
Interview and Observations in New Zealand
Get PDFWhile still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Emmaline Irvine describes her observations during her study abroad program at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand