painting
Hailing from Philadelphia, PA, Morgan Thomas has spent the majority of her life in observation of the people around her. She has studied art and art history around the world and graduated in 2007 from Williams College with two degrees (in studio art and sociology). Thomas' main subject is human but strives to examine more emotion and communication than the classic portrait. Utilizing a semiotic vocabulary built up through the existence of the human race, Thomas records the world around her as she perceives it visually and spiritually. She aims to communicate to her audience the honest image and heartfelt meaning of a moment in time as it can be understood through form, color, and symbolic imagery. Thomas' work is sociological, allegorical, and historical record. It does not try to comment on an event, but rather represent it for the audience to bring judgement to.
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sculpture
All my works are influenced by nature and a need to recreate it in the simplest way possible preserving the complexity it represents.
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installation
I'm a theater design student that has had to take time off from school because of the economy. My dream is to work with independent schools and teach children to embrace my passion for art. I have been so fortunate to have a family that supports my dreams as an artist and I hope I can channel that support to those who need it most.
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mixed media
Celebrityism is a series of collages focusing on America's obsession with celebrities. News of celebrities has replaced real news, as in the case of Anna Nicole's death and when Paris Hilton went to jail. The public then is bombarded with repeated imagery of these celebrities. The ornate frames are to symbolize the royalty status given to celebrities and there are several religious iconitry references to denote how they have become the gods of modern times. "Celebrityism" represents our misplaced values raising the celebrity above us, culminating in the depreciation of the significance of everyday living.
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installation
She LL Project (she will, shell) is a traveling art installation of texts and donated dresses from sexually assaulted women and children. She LL was created to evoke healing, prevention, create awareness and break stereotypes commonly associated with sexual assault, abuse and harassment. At each location, new women are asked to share their stories and donate their dresses to the project. As the exhibition grows and travels internationally, She LL will flourish to hundreds even thousands of powerful and symbolic dresses exhibited around the world. If you would like to support or host She LL Project please visit www.sharipierce.com
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sculpture
Slamming together the rampant commercialism of custom car culture and adrenaline sports; the tribal totem traditions of the Pacific Northwest Native Americans; and the popular culture of Southern California's surf focused lifestyles, R. Nelson Parrish remakes, now historic, Minimalist hybrid objects of painting and sculpture. Implementing racing stripes as a signifier, the work is an inquiry into nature and the synthetic through the scopes of color and motion. The result: a contextualization that is greater than the sum of the parts.
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installation
Bears is a series of portraits of the most unusual sort: ordinary teddy bears that have been turned inside out and restuffed. Each animal's appearance is determined by the necessities of the manufacturing process. Simple patterns and devices never meant to be seen are now prominent physical characteristics, giving each one a distinctly quirky personality: their fasteners become eyes, their seams become scars, and their stuffing creeps out in the most unexpected places. Together these images form a topology of strange yet oddly familiar creatures.
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other
Noel Middleton is a Toronto based multi-disciplinary artist who works in sculpture, installation, photography and video. Using natural, found and collected materials, Middleton creates pieces that bridge experiences of reclusion and fantasy with themes of social and economic deprivation.
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installation
A two-person art collaborative, PROCESS is comprised of Scott Albrecht and David Trawin. Since 2006, the focus of PROCESS has been to document their creative process when making artwork and design pieces, illustrating their progression. Their belief is that to share an artist’s creative process and how a project grows from point A to point B, it gives the viewer a deeper appreciation for the completed piece. For them, it’s a way of involving and engaging others in their work.
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film
Paul Wallace is a video, film, and installation artist. His work is of a semiotic spirituality - it uses language, mythology, and psychoanalytic theory to access a structural understanding of what it means to be human, all while quietly circulating around a personal poetic. His projects focus on the line between the infinite and the singular, where self-understanding is pushed to the edge of emotional faith. Recently, this work has dealt with lack, and its manifestations within desire, meaning, and death. Paul Wallace, however, is upwards looking, jumping headfirst towards the outside.
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