TAMUCC - ADVANCED CERAMICS - Avenue#2 Statements - Critique 1

Saffron Williams  My work revolves around the use of archetypical imagery and symbols, and how they are used to define cultural or emotional concepts. Namely, being used to define or facilitate both religious spirituality, and womanhood and femininity as I feel intrinsically disconnected from both. Drawing from historical art methods used by world faiths, I use decorative arts, symmetry, performative ritual, and use of relics or objects to emulate what I believe faith or femininity should feel like. By crystalizing these concepts into a visual format, perhaps I can come closer to understanding. In my ceramics work, this in the creation of masks referencing anime girls and Tokusatsu costuming, as women portrayed in them are abstracted almost to the point of non-human, yet we recognize and accept these figures as female because of the artistic language surrounding them. Not only are they seen as women, but an idealized, more pure form that many hold at a level above. These masks serv...

My work revolves around the use of archetypical imagery and symbols, and how they are used to define cultural or emotional concepts. Namely, being used to define or facilitate both religious spirituality, and womanhood and femininity as I feel intrinsically disconnected from both. Drawing from historical art methods used by world faiths, I use decorative arts, symmetry, performative ritual, and use of relics or objects to emulate what I believe faith or femininity should feel like. By crystalizing these concepts into a visual format, perhaps I can come closer to understanding. In my ceramics work, this in the creation of masks referencing anime girls and Tokusatsu costuming, as women portrayed in them are abstracted almost to the point of non-human, yet we recognize and accept these figures as female because of the artistic language surrounding them. Not only are they seen as women, but an idealized, more pure form that many hold at a level above. These masks serve to obscure the weare...

Mariana Ruvalcaba Cruz Change constitutes an inherent and unyielding aspect of existence, fostering continual adaptation and transformation. However, attempts to avoid this fundamental force frequently result in resistance and adversity. My personal journey has been marked by a complicated relationship with change, yet a recent shift of my perspective has unveiled its indispensable significance in sculpting the course of my life. With my work I seek to share my perspective by creating a visual language that transcends conventional boundaries and challenges traditional notions of reality. I merge, distort, and manipulate the human form and other natural elements, with the aim to blur the line between the tangible and the imagined, to create a world in “the middle” and craft hybrid creatures that embody the complexities of my personal experiences. Within this body of work, I employ a series of recurring motifs, including depictions of human-tree figures, ravens, dragonflies, and hermit ...

Ashley Burnett I am exploring the relationship between femininity and the impact of the Church on the perception of womanhood. Thinking about the expectations that are inherently put upon women, and how that permeates throughout adulthood. My work is an expression of my own personal relationship with being a woman that grew up in the Southern Baptist Church and coming to terms with the power of femininity. Using mythological monsters subverts the feeling of isolation and demonization that I often felt growing up, more specifically when I decided to leave the Faith. These hybrid women highlight the vulnerability of desire, seduction, and the subsequent power that women possess. We must bear the sins that others put upon us. Not living up to the expectations set for women, is our worst crime. I am taking specific moments in the mermaid chronicle to expand and explore further. Creating in-the-round narrative models help support the conceptual ideas being presented across mediums. The dime...

Jin sun Kim (02072024) MFA Ceramic Prof. Urrutia, Leandra Art Statement I have realized that the relationship between urban cities as a space and humans is integrated or controversial toward conceptual relationships of human beings and nature, objects and subjects, voids and solids, and usage and preservation. These fundamental relationships utilize attention to the stipulation of its external material as its own physical vision and its internal material as its own emotional element, constructing a plethora of perspectives for the human eye and mind to comprehend. This is what I consider the fundamental essence of this artwork. Since human existence, the development of cities has been evolving. That means that cities have been planning, developing, and extending. Yet, despite the creation of mechanical systems and massive spaces for human convenience, humans faced the innate negations of complicated urban landscapes. Although the urban city might be perce...