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"Supreme Being: The Symmetry of What You Saw and What You Say" Official Installation Image
No full textThis digital image was photographed by Chip Pankey and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in February, 2018.This is an installation image of Rashayla Marie Brown's exhibition "Supreme Being: The Symmetry of What You Saw and What You Say". The exhibition description reads as such: "In an 'undisciplinary' installation, Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) explores a diverse array of media including writing, photography, voiceover acting, and an installation of a makeshift red 'dark room,' school desks, red vinyl window coverings, and a red carpet. Melding the aesthetics of kitsch (bourgeois realism) and communist art (social realism) with those of high art (museum design) and film, RMB’s work explores the coercive foundation of systems of display found in the desire to communicate a clear, moral message across various cultural contexts". Lauded as a 2017 Artadia Awardee, artist-scholar Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) manages a living studio practice across an extensive list of cultural production modes, including photography, performance, writing, drawing, installation, and video art. The exhibition opened on January 19 in the Clough Hanson gallery
Design of Novel Inhibitors for the Aldehyde Dehydrogenases
No full textPresentation by Caroline Magee ('19), Emma Selner ('18), and Larryn Peterson delivered at the Rhodes College Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium (URCAS).L-DOPA is commonly used as a xenobiotic for patients with conditions such as Parkinson's
disease. L-DOPA is transformed into dopamine by DOPA-decarboxylase. Dopamine derived
from L-DOPA is deactivated via metabolism by a series of enzymes including Aldehyde
dehydrogenases (ALDH). The targeted inhibition of the ALDH enzyme may help to prolong the
effectiveness of L-DOPA, resulting in a net increase in pharmacological efficiency. By
selectively designing an inhibitor for ALDH, the effectiveness of the L-DOPA can be extended
by regulating the metabolism of dopamine derived from L-DOPA. The effectiveness of a series
of potential inhibitors has been measured via in silico models in which the strength of interaction
between each substrate and the enzymatic active site was analyzed. A crystal-structure of the
ALDH enzyme with an inhibitor bound in its active site (PDB ID: 4WP7) was used to create a
model of the active site. Novel dopaminergic derivatives were optimized in the active site using
M062X/6-31G with implicit solvation and with relaxed amino acid side-chains. Ligands can fit
into the active site in a number of ways; this work examines single molecules orientations and
double molecule orientations. Interaction energies between the ligands and the protein were
calculated using MO62X with the 6-311+G* basis set. Some potential inhibitors show promising
results such as the MP and CM series. Mutant enzymes were also studied for their affinity for
the ligands
Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Madison Peticolas. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by John (Siler) Sloan. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
Rachel Shideler Drawing Portfolio
No full textThis drawing was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is an image of a drawing created by Rachel Shideler as part of her drawing portfolio
Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Benjamin Aquila. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
"Body-ody-oddy" Exhibtion Image
No full textThis digital image was photographed by Chip Pankey and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in December, 2018.This is an image of the Body-ody-oddy exhibition held in the Clough Hanson Gallery. The exhibition consisted of artists exploring the body at, against, and beyond its boundaries, creating hybrids, amalgams, and excesses that illuminate the ways that politics and pleasures are made flesh. It featured work by Katie Torn, Alex Paulus, Melissa Wilkinson, and Moth Moth Moth and the Haus of Phantosea.
Alex Paulus commented on his work, stating "My paintings are a representation of how ridiculous I think life can be...I also like to include humor in the work. If my art can make people laugh and feel good, I’ve succeeded. The paintings are usually very bright and bold in color, and the subject matter can be a little bizarre. The use of brightly colored paint seems to curb some the strange imagery and make it more palatable to the viewer."
Melissa Wilkinson commented as well, saying "These series of paintings focus on my interest in dichotomies: obscuring and revealing, attraction and repulsion, good and evil, the past and the present. I appropriate imagery from a variety of sources in order to develop a pastiche that fractures the conventional male gaze and positions art historical models as both subject and spectacle. I choose to dismantle epic narratives from the past to create a schizophrenic perspective. The images break from their original sources into fragments, creating a complex visual experience that both irritates and seduces. It is through this body of work that I seek to challenge the hetero-normative male gaze and reinvent a fluid view that fluctuates between unconventional representations of the erotic body.
Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by John (Siler) Sloan. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Rachel Ward. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio
Spring Beginning Painting Project 2: Human Figure
No full textThis painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This painting was created by Madison Peticolas. It was submitted as a part of the second project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment was focused on "the human figure" and required students to complete 2 paintings on a 16 x 20 canvas panel. The "human figure" subject included portraitures and/or the human body