General Fine Arts

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Mikko Dizack 2025
(2025-05-16) Dizack, Mikko
By utilizing simple mechanics through my designs, such as levers, wedges, and hinges, I simplify connection and adjustability in my lamps to their most fundamental elements. This timeless design draws from the enduring beauty of natural elements. Functionality is found within the form. These lamps offer a kind of joy, a moment of stillness and comfort that creates a space where people can unwind and feel at ease. This series of prototype light fixtures utilizes organic shapes and found forms to reintegrate natural patterns into everyday life. By blending utility and sculpture together, the light fixtures act as 3D sketches for experimental design. By puzzling together raw material, fitting form to function, and choosing the right mix of mediums, these designs arise from a change in perspective. Once the design emerges from this rearranging of material, the pieces are adhered in a way that isolates the earthly nature while disguising industrial hardware and emphasizing originality. Ultimately, this collection of pieces will represent a spontaneous design process based on intuition and seeking a cohesive language between materials and form.
Raylee Heiden 2025
(2025) Heiden, Raylee
Beyond Appearances is an exploration of two subjects, Alie and Stan and the realm of personalities and stories beyond their appearances. This project takes on the appearance of two life size portrait paintings.
Rio Quezada 2025
(2025) Quezada, Rio
The Church is a Dog Park is a mixed media installation project that explores grief, memory, and the processing of loss through tactile art making. The work honors Ellen, an influential figure in the artist's life who took her own life in October 2023 due to health issues. Ellen, affectionately known as "the crazy dog lady" in their community, fostered numerous dogs and served as a third parental figure to the artist. The project's title stems from the poignant discovery that Ellen spent her final moments at what others called a church but she experienced as a dog park—a green space where she frequently walked her dogs. The installation comprises four primary components: ceramic figurines representing dogs significant to their shared history, embroidered and mended denim overalls symbolizing Ellen's practical nature, a weighted puppy-shaped soft sculpture referencing memories of carrying sleepy puppies during walks, and a variable edition of woodblock prints depicting The Dark Corner, a meaningful landscape from their walks together. Each medium serves as a different avenue for processing grief—the repetitive motions of embroidery, the grounding quality of clay work, and the layered transformations of printmaking mirror the complexities of mourning. Influenced by artists like Zoe Leonard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Alison Bechdel, the work examines how objects and natural environments become vessels for memory. The project is informed by research on trauma, emotional connection in mammals, tactile art as therapy, and the concept of "a good death." Through visible mending, variable editions, and interactive elements, the project explores how grief, like art making, is a transformative process—not obscuring damage but acknowledging it while creating something newly meaningful.
Morgan Berry 2025
(2025-04-23) Berry, Morgan
Food, community, and religion are key parts of Black culture. All of our family gatherings are always paired with food. It’s a tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation alongside some of the recipes that will be discussed. The dinner table is a symbol of connection, and through research from primary sources- such as family members, secondary sources from Black American-centered cookbooks, and Black artists who explore their culture through photography. Shown in the form of collectible cards, recipe book, and dinner table setup this project explores how photography can portray the subtleties of Southern Black American experience from my eyes.
Steele Alden 2024
(2024-11-18) Alden, Steele
Ecstatic Utterances is a series of paintings exploring altered states of being through depictions of queer intimacy, religious folklore, and dreams. Vivid, large-scale paintings act as portals transporting the viewer to transcendent worlds where anything is possible and everything is beautiful. Populated with birds, horses, queer bodies, and saintly impressions— these works begin to create their own theology. This series of paintings includes four, large-scale pieces depicting intimate, queer happenings and dreamy landscapes through a mix of graphic shapes and loose, gestural mark-making. The work utilizes complex color pallets, figure interaction, and thoughtfully activated compositions to create an engaging and dynamic body of work.
Grace Angeline Feucht 2024
(2024-11-22) Feucht, Grace
An immersive exhibition that captured God’s presence in the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. A gallery space filled with work in a variety of mediums that engaged people with the content through all of their senses. Visitors immersed themselves in the nature of the Pacific Northwest as they walked into the exhibition, leaving their preconceived notions of fine art and the gallery space behind. A hiking backpack sat upon a beach blanket with a pile cassettes, books, and a bible just outside the door. A quiet recording of ocean waves crashing on the beach on cassette played from a tape recorder by a display of custom view-masters. The audio recording drew people in to the nook of the gallery space where 3 view-masters sat upon a cedar shelf with 6 unique custom reels compiled from collections of film photos the artist took around the Pacific Northwest. Each reel contained 7 photos and was sorted into 2 reels of the beach, 2 reels of the forests, 1 reel of the mountains and 1 reel of the Puget Sound. Just around the coroner were a set of 3 colorful stained fused glass pieces that caught the sunlight as it streamed in through the window like stained glass in a church. On the largest wall were 3 large oil paintings. Inspired by the impressionists, the artist emphasized each individual brushstroke that comprised the larger landscape. As viewers left, there were 3 hand printed and illustrated prayer cards inspired by different parts of the Pacific Northwest including Mount Hood, Multnomah Falls and Indian Beach.

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