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So many shows from the Studio Arts area this week!

Be sure to catch these ones tonight, they go down tonight!

"INTERIORS OF MEMORY"

water color, installation, furniture, memorabilia Gallery 303 Foyer Bethany Pinnock BFA Final Show

"ONLY SONG"

video, music, pattern Gallery 303 Main Rachel Stallings Thomander BFA Final Show

"EQUILIBRIUM"

sculpture, pottery BF Larsen Main, South Robyn Draper BFA Final Show

"SOMEDAY I'LL"

hanging sculpture, abstraction BF Larsen Main, North Anna Ferrin BFA Final Show

"VERA HINCKLEY MAYHEW CREATIVE ARTS CONTEST"

2-D, 3-D 4th Floor, East & West Group Student Juried Show

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assignment 10. SUPERIMPOSE YOUR HAIR OVER SOMEONE ELSE’S

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THE NEXT WEEK AND A HALF

Learning to Love You More and More, Jessica Li, BFA final show, Gallery 303 Main

Visit the project's website and be a part of the work! (submissions up until February 28 will be exhibited in the gallery)

Votive 001 (Teeth), Maddison Colvin, Smart Space (smack dab next to Gallery 303)

Also, check out the brand new department galleries website here for information about the non-Studio-Art exhibitions, past and present.

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ONLY UP 'TIL TOMORROW:

31 Days, Alisha Anderson, BFA final show, BF Larsen Main Gallery

Heroes!, Art Morrill, solo show, BF Larsen Gallery Insets

BODY OF WORK, video/performance group show

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This week: BODY OF WORK, a video/performance group show

Featuring video works by: Clarissa Anderson, Maura German, Cami Hall, Kathleen Lyon, Emily Melander, Raphael Morin, Art Morrill, Brittany Nelson, Levi Price, Cole Walker, Hannah Wertz, Claire White, and Jessica Li

opening reception this Thursday in Gallery 303 of the HFAC.

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The next two weeks:

31 Days, Alisha Anderson, BFA final show, BF Larsen Main Gallery

Reaching, Maura German, solo show, Gallery 303 Main Gallery, *closes Feb 7

Heroes!, Art Morrill, solo show, BF Larsen Gallery Insets

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The HFAC galleries are hoppin' these days. All shows run until the end of this month so you beta' catch 'em fast!

I'M BEGGING YOU, Cole Walker

Only up for ONE MORE DAY!

MAIN GALLERY 303

ODDS OF LOVE, Hannah Wertz

opening reception on Jan 26 [TOMORROW NIGHT!] from 5:30-9pm

MAIN GALLERY 303

MY SIGNIFICANT OTHER, Bryan Hutchison

GALLERY 303 FOYER

THIS IS THE FOREST PRIMEVAL, Brooklyn Johnson

BF LARSEN GALLERY

BY SMALL AND SIMPLE THINGS, Ellie Hansen

BF LARSEN GALLERY

ON BEING AND NOTHINGNESS, Ashley Braithwaite

FOURTH FLOOR

WATERCOLORS by Katie Reed

FOURTH FLOOR

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She Comes In Color, Caitlin Watson, BFA final show, December 1-14, 2011

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BFA student's work was recently discovered by a BYU Magazine photographer, Jaren Wilkey.  This photograph was posted on the BYU Photo page and quickly spread like wildfire across our online community.  It wasn't until Area Head, Fidalis Buehler, responded to Wilkey's request for any information about the work that Arthur Morrill was connected to the street-installations.  Art's in the process of receiving credit for his work.  

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Exhibit A, Hannah Wertz BFA final show, November 17-30, 2011

Abstract:

May 2010: Walked into the North Rim Campground at the Grand Canyon and left wanting to know more about Aspen trees. Plan to study all aspects of one tree with blind experimentation using art and amateur scientific process.

October 2011: Conclusion: N/A. Only documentation of time spent exploring using books and numbers and drawings and lectures trying to understand this living thing. Results include, but not limited to, observations on humility, inward realization of deeper connection to natural processes, appreciation of process of experimentation [where making one choice multiplies knowledge exponentially], a personal relationship with an inanimate object. Still evading total comprehension [see Exhibit A].

“Level One and Level Two”

Oil on panel, 3X4’

Large white board, dry erase marker

“The Relative Frequency and Position of Positive and Negative Emotions Over 365 Days of My Life”

Pencil and paper, 4X10’

Visual representation of my emotional state between April 10, 2010 and April 11, 2011. Left axis is a scale of my happiness between 15 and -15 plotted with dots for each separate day and how happy I was at the time from reading through data collected in my journals. I connected all of the dots within 18 inches of each other (the size of my ruler) because every moment and emotion is relative to the moments before and after.

“Let’s Try Climbing It”

Video, 4 min 50 sec

“I still don’t know anything, really”

Installation; fishing line and nails plotted using a cross section of one Aspen tree cell

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Friends for Heaven, Lisa Boughan, BFA final show, November 17-30, 2011

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Anxiety In Public, Lisa Boughan, part of her BFA final show, November 17-30, 2011

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Anxiety At Church, Lisa Boughan, part of her BFA final show, November 17-30, 2011

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Here The Mountain Was Made, Jena Schmidt BFA final show, November 17-30, 2011

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Special Halloween Feature

Last year Bryan Hutchison, a senior in the studio art program, was awarded an ORCA grant from BYU to research Provo's architectural history.  Now he's been featured on Channel 5's KSL news and is currently on the BYU website's front page.

Watch KSL's new story here.  Check out BYU news here.

-Jessica Li, BFA Studio Arts: Printmaking

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Art is not about art, claims Nick Bonterno, a graduate student at Brigham Young University.  

Then what is art about?

Nick approaches his portraits with a specific goal in mind: portray the feelings of the sitters. It is very much about the spirit of the people, something that does not dissipate or vary with time. He seeks to rebel against transient art. Such pieces seek to converse with the social or political commentaries of their day. These sorts of dialogues change with the time, differing depending on the demands and urges of the day. But for the people and scenes in his pieces, Nick wants to create permanence. He wants to freeze in time the emotions of the sitters, creating a lasting effect.

For Nick, his portraiture is a search for identity. His inspiration derives from nineteenth century American art, a time when American artists had no identity. With no formal schooling, they were forced to work with the materials and subjects available to them. In this way, the art was culturally radical and conservative at the same time. Nick sees his art in much the same way, echoing a sense of conservatism as he reaches into the past that is familiar and comforting to him, a sort of “humanistic escapism” for the viewer.

“Essentially I’m kind of a hippie,” Nick confesses. 

-Emaline Maxfield, an undergrad Art History major

For more info on Nick's show, click here.