Jennifer Krueger

I'm very impressed by the creative use of layering and blend of style in Jennifer's work. There's obvious beauty but also something disquieting in her work that held my attention.

Jacey Cocoa

Coca approaches the disintegration of nature with a wonderful child-like optimism. She sees this fallen stick, the limb of a one living and breathing piece of nature , and picks it back up with the intention to fix it. The stick is new again with a shiny, beautiful exterior. The attention to detail in this piece is wonderful and I love how this process can never perfectly be duplicated. No two sticks will ever be alike.

This artwork is a sculptural piece shaped like an arch or stylized three-legged form. It has multicolored linear patterns that curve and flow across its surface, giving it a dynamic, textured appearance.

Kate Arford

The use of materials in this piece made the work both interesting and outstanding. While the work looks simple, it is powerful enough to truly represent the desert scene.

Hyewon Yoon

A portraiture in sculpture that pays homage to a great EL alum, Joe Willie Smith, while being created by an alum, as well!

David L Bradley

This piece touches on a few things for me. My grandmother was a quilter and I grew up visiting fabric stores with her. She would roam the aisles until she found just the fabric she was looking for and then take it home to begin cutting it up. She would spend months painstakingly pieces these bits of fabric back together, and at the end of it all, a family member would be gifted an object of warmth and love. A quilt is the perfect medium to discuss the unspoken labor that women take on in the home and family. Tedious, heavy, and for the benefit of others. Fantastic work.

Amy Menousek

The combination of sculptural materials creates a tenuous and rich balance - the uneasy bronze forms nestled within the grounding wood brings to mind the chaotic creation of a new universe. The rich blue orb at the center suggests a stability, despite it all.

Wrong Lyons

This piece is very captivating, I really want to see it in person and talk to them about their practice!

Lucas Anderson

Visually compelling and delightfully surreal. Fairytale visual storytelling and vibrant colors create a emotionally positive vibe while the black framing produces a fable-like feeling.

Michelle Diaz

Bee Garcia-Valenzuela

The texture of the oil paint, colors, and eyes with soul.

I liked how the delicate materials worked with the image.

Sarah Martiny

Tess Mosko Scherer

I think this piece has some of the same qualities assigned to the Inside Us and Beyond Us piece—it is mature work about aging, interior and exterior lives, existential. This piece demonstrates a sure-handed commitment to her ideas about liminal space as well as her practice.

Harold Lohner

I have seen Harold’s monotypes from various venues and enjoy his use of line and his use of pattern & repetition in his masculine portrait

Angelique Bailey

The softness of the material and light interacting is very compelling. A world is created in the space, and although there is an ethereal quality to it, the story being told is more rugged and raw. The monochromatic color scheme utilizes the blue in an eye catching way that is reminisce of blood in a crime scene.

The soft medium of embroidery, portraying Navalny and Navalnaya, lets Dunlap's precise stitches show their intimacy and strength without sentimentality. Viewers are invited to linger over their tenderness, devotion, and resolve. Care becomes a quiet form of defiance.

Steph Dunlap

Unique point of view as the viewer is in the sink - artwork leaves room for pondering expression, the concept of moments in between, females expression creates a layer of contemplation for the viewer - is she enjoying the chore? does she resent it? Curious and want to see it in person and learn more about this protagonist

Angela Brewster

I like its disorienting quality. It's playful, dark, with nice contrast.

Rennan Kooistra

Joe Cornett

His composition highlights symmetry, texture, and the interplay of light on the wooden surfaces evoking a sense of quiet, rural simplicity and nostalgic ambience.

Very surreal with great use of perspective, movement & balance

Novati has created a fantastical photograph documenting the tension of a storm brewing in the distance. The clouds feel so far away, but daunting nonetheless. Storms are ephemeral: there is a time before, a time during, and a time after the storm. I find myself daydreaming of the upcoming monsoon season while staring into this wonderful composition.

Liliana Novati

Intriguing, evocative, ambiguously surrealist image

Kylie Ybarra

The specificity of the focus and the freshness of the colors and forms

London Farris

I liked the details of a very fun idea

Lillian Kaye

Aidan McClendon

Beautiful image, beautiful colors!

A technically impressive painting that keeps my eye constantly moving around the painting. The chaos and pastel-like texture keep me entertained at every point in the painting. Truly feels like the get-together is still happening.

Movement captured in this artwork is dynamic and takes a while to get through visually - a "family style" setting is a great entry point for conversation, has a domestic feel and comfort to it- environmental elements such as the cuisine and economic markers of architecture contribute to the comfort and conversations to be had about family life and safety versus adulthood- makes me think about updated apartments we cannot afford and how we look back at the simpler times

Eamon Win

Ananth Udupa

“Machete the city” overlays a visual reference to fieldwork in Jamaica with Calvino’s distorted “cities.” All stories remain referential to our hometowns in some fashion.

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