One last hurrah
Seniors put work on display for final time of college career
Allison Proite
Issue date: 12/11/08 Section: Scene
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The seniors, who are all finishing their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees, include Kerri Kiernan, Lara Jones, Sarah Hicks, Benjamin Schram and Kristina Starr.
Starr's art caught a lot of people's attention in the gallery. Her digital prints include a piece called "I Don't Wanna Grow Up I am a Toys-R-Us Kid," which depicts a grown woman dressed like a little girl sitting on the floor of her pink room looking directly into the camera with a dazed expression on her face.
Another piece that caused a lot of conversation was entitled, "A Woman Pretending to be a Man Pretending to be a Woman?" The digital print shows a woman in the center singing while two men look on, yet the two men and the woman are all the same
person.
"This piece is definitely interesting," senior Molly Borski said. "It leaves a lot of questions up in the air. I think different people would interpret this in many different ways."
Starr's other digital prints include "God Sees All." The piece shows a woman in the foreground looking into the camera innocently, but in the background it shows the same woman passed out next to a bottle of alcohol and pills strewn on the floor next to her, but a rosary still in her hand.
"I think (Starr) definitely takes risks in her pictures," Borski said. "They are all so different and spark conversation for sure."
Starr wants her audience to look beyond her photographs to see what is really there.
"I want people to not just see the visual qualities of the art, but to start to think of the overall duality that is a part of each image," Starr said.
As for her inspiration for her artwork, Starr said she gets it from everywhere.
"Art, film, literature and history have influenced me," Starr said. "This series came from a lot of personal soul-searching to find not only who I am as an artist and a person. The idea of identity has always fascinated me and I began to realize that I myself am searching for my true identity."
Other pieces at the gallery include Kiernan's piece, which is a nesting installation. She used collected yarn and other materials. Yarn was strewn from floor to ceiling, which then collected into a ball of different materials on the floor. Kiernan also has a series of photographs in which she hopes the viewer will gain an insight to her own life.
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