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Eckerd College Program for Experienced Learners
Senior Thesis Exhibition
Eckerd College's Program for Experienced Learners enables busy adult learners to complete a degree program. Students enrolled in the PEL program can transfer up to three years college credit through life experience and/or previous college credits
April 6 - May 30, 2009.
Participating artists for 2009:
Annie Culbertson
Jyl Hawver
Debra Mixon
Erik Frechette
David Griffith
Mental Tumbleweed
Annie Culbertson
Anne Culbertson
Artist Statement
These days are anxious and tense. In response, my art making is a refuge, a sanctuary. Like a kept bird escaping the confines of her cage, I experiment and play freed of limitations as I attempt to blur disturbing events of our lifetime.
Society’s discards become my media as I embed and layer, add and subtract, scrub and sand. Like artist Gwen Fryer, I work my surfaces hard. Revealed is substance in the shadow, metaphor for our times. And like a chant, pattern becomes ritual in my work.
Absurd figures with their all-seeing eyes inhabit my worlds. So it is with Heironymous Bosch; we share a love of the fantastic. In the end, my works are like dents and scars, survival’s badge, intended to distract and enchant you, as we stumble together through our challenges.
Seduction
Jyl Hawver
Jyl Hawver
Artist Statement
Capturing images to create sensual form is my goal as a photographer. A technique called Light Painting allows me to manipulate light to reveal a body’s hidden landscape. I look to the Impressionists who explore light effects, hence time, on the changing scene, as my focus.
Body of Landscape is a series captured in RAW format using a Sony A100 stationed on a tripod. The subject is illuminated with various flashlights to push form into deep abstraction. In so doing, I question how time alters terrain.
The technique of Light Painting, introduced to me by my brother Cody Hawver, creates the mysterious shadows seen in my photography. And Hermann Foersterling’s twisting photo-forms are an inspiration for my explorations. Hawver and Foersterling are two photographers who inspire me to dig deep into my creative depths and the travel peaks and valleys of the body’s terrain.
Bramble 1
Debra Mixon
Debra Mixon
Artist Statement
A sense of place is compelling and integral to identity and memory, the building blocks of personal story. In constructing our narratives, we undertake the ephemeral quest to meld past and present. We seek to find ourselves.
In my work, I create what I crave and what seems so lacking in our modern separation from place, particularly the organic and the natural. Inspired by Louisiana artist Clyde Connell, I use elements from my physical environment to express our innate relationship with nature.
Plying backwaters, byways and my own backyard, I raid a treasure chest of pattern, texture and form. Similar to processes explored by Santa Fe artist Ron Pokrasso, I capture my impressions through my own photographs, nature painting, solarplates, monotypes, and drawing.
I intertwine these disparate images into naturescapes scattered with remnants of a human presence. The process becomes an unearthing of a memory or moment suspended in time. An invocation emerges that speaks to and honors my yearning for a place that feels like home.
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