Advanced Art Work

So I am halfway through my final year at Coe College, and that means taking the Advance Art course for a full year to help prepare me for my own art show in the Spring of 2011. Now most art majors stick to their art major emphasis: drawing, ceramics, digital, printmaking, etc., but I've decided to be bold and forget that I'm a graphic design emphasis. For my art exhibit, I'll be doing a mixture of 2D and 3D collage and assemblage. I had gotten into collage my freshman year during a course with the belloved professor, David Goodwin. And, although I was mostly taking digital art courses after that year, I always remember how much I loved using different materials, mixed with imagery and actual found objects. And so the summer before my summer year, I decided that I wanted to go to the world of 3D for my art. It was a bold move that I am quite enjoying, and even though I plan to enter the field of graphic design for a career, I am glad that I am challenging myself this much. I've done a lot of practice over the past semester and I beleive my skills are improving and I'm starting to find my niche. I've been told that my work is quite remeniscent of work by Dadaists and even my favorite artist as of right now: Robert Rauschenberg.

Below are photos of some of the work in progress that I am currently working on during my "winter break". I'll try to keep uploading photos to this blog to show how these pieces are turning out.