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Fractured Terrains

Description: Since my youth in Ukraine, I have been inspired by the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, who went to outer space in April 1961. Since then I have been imagining the fragments of an unknown space that is divided into a variety of different felt locations. I am interested in envisioning fractured terrains, where the intrusion of sharp elements interact with a soft transparent and atmospheric space. I want to create a sense of discord as a metaphorical reflection on the absurd, political situation in… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Vasyutynska, Laura
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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The Gainsay Taxonomies

Description: Through painting, I use materiality to describe the material world. By rooting my practice in visual culture and art history, I seek to extend the meaning of images beyond their initial form. The coalescing of opposing and complimentary formal elements accentuate the visual and contextual friction. This allows the work to exist in an ambiguous state. Seen together, my works appear disparate, but they suggest alternative meanings through association with one another. The works can exist on their… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Huynh, Loc
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Heeding the Underbelly

Description: Black’s work presents The Ubiquitous, an entity that propagates into subhuman beings that ravage the deserts in search of sacrificial circles or homing beacons. Their physical nature is heavily influenced by: Languid, liquid human body language; the otherworldly visage and tenacity of plant life; the heaving monstrosity of mountains and rock formations; and the joyous allegory of movie monsters, puppets, and pulp fantasy. The Ubiquitous is explored in Black’s whimsical writings an… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Black, Jordan
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Interiority

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Randal Robins as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Interiority” in the Cora Stafford Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on March 15-25, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Robins, Randal
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Into a Spacious Place

Description: My artwork is a record of mundane yet impactful experiences of everyday life. The subject of memory and my interest in pictorial space create a visual narrative of the physical and metaphorical ways I navigate the world. I envision space as sometimes a place of comfort, or at times a souvenir of a distant event. Through my paintings, I process and rediscover the past through the intimacy and tactility of mark-making. Each work presents a bittersweet narrative where I examine the complex circums… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Gonzales, Victoria
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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11,009km

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Jihye Han as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "11,009km” at the Goldmark Cultural Center in Dallas, TX on April 9-May 7, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Han, Jihye
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Legend Systems: an Escape to a Hidden Land

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Maria Villanueva as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Legend Systems: an escape to a hidden land” in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building Atrium on the campus of the University of North Texas on March 1-5, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Villanueva, Maria
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Keep Me Beautiful, Keep Me Bright, Keep Me Joyous

Description: In my work, I create collections of small objects from a variety of materials and curate them into a larger composition in space. These objects are made from clay, wood, paint, sand, beads, cardboard, paper, yarn, tape, and other materials. I arrange these objects into a composition that is informed by painting, which manifests as the wall and floor serving as substrate, along with vinyl shapes delineating areas of the painting as a whole. In these arrangements I aim to break away from taught b… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Kennedy, Claire
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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A Narrative Rewritten

Description: In A Narrative Rewritten, I explore two distinct periods of my past. One group of work deals with the emotional effects of trauma I experienced as a child during years of practicing ballet. The other celebrates a pivotal moment of spiritual awakening that gave me the strength to confront internal falsehoods I previously developed. I paint from observation, to engage with my subject and to ground myself in the present moment. In my oil paintings, I paint representationally, while delving in to t… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Aaron, Hannah
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Unicorn Magic

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Jacob Phillips as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Unicorn Magic” in the Cora Stafford Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on April 12-22, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Phillips, Jacob
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Without/Within

Description: My work explores the interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships we have with our physical, mental, and emotional bodies. Using techniques ranging from traditional carpentry to digital fabrication, the works are created to represent individual traumatic experiences as well as the universality of loss. My pieces are meant to elicit an empathic response from the audience. There are common traumas and pains that bring humans together as a form of bonding.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Jordan, Felicia
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Counting Seconds

Description: Each of my oil or pastel paintings is an observation of seemingly mundane familiar places that I encounter day-to-day. I think of my art as a kind of visual journalism, where I examine common human emotions evoked by a careful consideration of the substance of light interacting with spaces or objects. The naturalistically rendered compositions are cropped and depicted in small fragments, allowing the viewer a brief glimpse into a quiet portrayal of the world. Essentially, my art allows me to s… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Shurbet, Kelsey
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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A Dog Named Robot

Description: I make work that engages the porous and sensate body. The larger question for me is the interdependency of how we exist within our environment and how our environment exists in us. Caves, deep time, and the feminine landscape factor into my work, as well as thinking beyond a humancentered narrative to address concerns about the earth. My process involves using raw pigment, wax, rain, dirt, and the language of abstraction to point to a raw, interior space. My source material is equal parts imagi… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Jaeggli, Erika
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Maelstrom

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Maria Haag as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Maelstrom” in the Cora Stafford Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on March 15-23, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Haag, Maria
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Mano De Obra

Description: Juan Barroso's artwork depicts Mexican labor and the immigrant experience at the border. With the current political administration enforcing policies that dehumanize and force immigrants into the shadows, recognizing an immigrant’s humanity is vital. As the son of immigrant parents, he pays homage to his people and the dignity of their labor. He mixes 2- dimensional imagery, influenced by personal narratives, with 3-dimensional functional forms. Using a small watercolor brush, he paints his ima… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Barroso, Juan
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Green Man Action Cycle

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Cosmo Jones as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Green Man Action Cycle” at Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas frpm March 15-21, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Jones, Cosmo
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Double Dare

Description: Artist Statement from the MFA exhibition: In my recent work, I explore my identity as a first-generation American, using my painting practice to think about early memories of living in-between two cultures.  These remembered moments allow a space for me to consider how both cultures merge. Portraying vivid memories through colorful recognizable objects and body parts, memories take on a new context, showing the passage of time, and reflecting on how memories take on new meaning. My desire to sa… more
Date: November 2019
Creator: Giron, Cynthia
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Phantom Pain

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Matthew Johnson as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Phantom Pain” in the Cora Stafford Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on April 1-6, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Johnson, Matthew
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Keep it Between You and Me and the Neighbors

Description: I use the domestic as a locale to consider the function of a queer body within the “American Dream.” I frequently remove the objects from their intended uses through various methods of alterations. Breaking things down to queer identity, objects, space, and community, I consider each object as a stand-in for individuals liberated from the pressure of preconceptions and mastery. Each lends itself towards the community identity, serving individually as separate functions within the experience, bu… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Bryant, Joshua B.
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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