Black and Blue: A Spring 2023 Exhibition

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April 17 – May 31, 2023

FI 2nd floor – 202 Exhibition Space

This show is a collaborative effort of both the ART 370 Black and White Photography 1 class and the ART 373 Alternative Photography Process class. The results are a collection of both black and white prints and dark blue cyanotype prints, thus the title Black and Blue!

  • In dark blue cyanotype, women pose atop one another all looking at the viewer
    Ava Weller – The Nature of Human Form
  • Black and White Photography: On the left is an image of a man with long hair posing barefoot with a longbow and a paintbrush, surrounded by lite-up computer screens and en-robed in a white cloth. HE looks forward towards the viewer. On the right is an image of a woman in a leafy headdress, a necklace of large beads, and a dress with flower-like decals. She poses with a ukulele decorated by flowers, her hands poised to play. She looks off to the side.
    Fox Lunetta & Ellie Lewis – Eras & NĀNĀ I KE KUMU (Look to the Source)
  • In cyanotype, a person lays on the ground toughing the top of their head and their earlobe, they look at the camera
    Jada Kleinman – Untitled
  • Two women stand back to back with one in a white dress facing the camera showing her face covered in an opaque flower and the other women dressed in black facing away from the camera. They both hold bouquets of flowers, and the women in the black dress whose face would be reflected in a mirror is obscured in the reflection by the flowers at her waist in her hands
    Aleah Pechthalt & Natasha Karkoski – Light Wields a Petaled Weapon
  • In dark blue cyanotype, an abstract collage piece with a shadowed out figure's shoulder and a streak of piano keys across the page. The paper has been purposely crumbled then re-flattened
    Brooklyn Miller – Physical Whole
  • Two figures pose in advanced proximity heat protecting suits, which are full-body covering, are a reflective silver and have rectangular tinted face guards. One figure stands upright and the other is leaning over as if looking at something on the ground
    Aiko Enomoto & Elizabeth Caulfield – This Can Be Warm
  • In dark blue cyanotype, collage piece, an alien planet filled with giant mushrooms, a tall cactus and overhead an upside-down field of sunflowers. The edges of the paper are purposely frayed
    Jude Klemmeck – Untitled
  • Two women look at the camera, both are wearing dark dresses. They have stacked multiple ayers of sunglasses over their face to the point of obscurity and on top of their heads are clothes. The woman on the right beaks through a gap in their shield of sunglasses.
    Sakura Kellner & Samone Alberts – Untitled

Inspired by Claude Cahun’s famous quote “Under this mask, another mask. I will never finish removing all these faces” (Claude Cahun 1930), ART 370 students worked as groups to make masked portraits where they were encouraged to use props, set design, and performance to explore the prompt above.

The ART 373 students were encouraged to use a digital negative to create abstract or representational images. They printed with cyanotype on multiple different materials, ranging from a paper bag, a t-shirt and even a wooden cutting board.

The result of these processes for both classes has resulted in a beautiful show that you could see on the Fine Art’s building second floor in the exhibition space near room 202. The works will be up from April 17th to May 31, 2023.

  • Several cyanotype pieces on display, a large white t-shirt with cyanotype prints takes center stage
    Black and Blue Hallway Show
  • Several cyanotype pieces on display including a large white t-shirt and some black and white photo prints
    Black and Blue Hallway Show
  • Several cyanotype pieces on display including a large white t-shirt and some black and white photo prints
    Black and Blue Hallway Show

The show features the creative works of Samone Alberts, Elizabeth Caulfield, Aili Conley, Kady Darlington, Aiko Enomoto, Natasha Karkoski, Sakura Kellner, Ellie Lewis, Fox Lunetta, Kelsi Nosal, Aleah Pechthalt, Sierra Peone, Jada Kleinman, Jude Klemmeck, Brooklyn Miller, and Ava Weller.

Special thanks to Nathan Cranston, Elizabeth Ransom, and our curator Steph Lasater!

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