Senior Studio 2020

afternoon colloquy by Kierra Nguyen

mama's backyard garden - mimi

work in progress gouache, ink, pen, collage

an ongoing project that examines how we define home spaces and how they can be remembered through a series of containers below are the first two containers one: recovered glass from Oberlin home in detritus two: seaweed and sand from Frank's Beach, Carmel, CA mailed to Ohio by mom

6 clay figurines dealing with the feeling of being knotted tied untied bound loose small and sculpted with palms

plus color colored pencils and attempts to be playful

shading many faces move towards each other double body envelope relations boundaries and separation begin to dissolve confusion!

// accumulated items inside a medicine cabinet // rumination on moving, the necessity of packing and unpacking // what we choose to take with us each time we move and what we reconcile leaving // space, it is confined // privacy and intimacy created by sorting through a box of goods, rearranging as we see fit and then returning them to the safety of being behind glass //

Typically I hate photographing things that I haven't staged or fully thought through and have never been particularly interested in documentary photography.  Recently my boyfriend and I went fishing and instead of taking photos of the surroundings as I had planned I took these photos of him telling me about how he learned to fish (competitively? Apparently there is such thing as varsity fishing I had no idea).

the winter hang transforms into a boulder when spring comes...work in progress, would <3 feedback! (:

Hello! For my second gesture, I'm posting a video that my friends, family, and I made for an online event called Live From Out There. It's a concert series that raises money for multiple musical related charities. Other artists that were on the same live stream as us include George Porter Jr (The Meters), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), and Hiss Golden Messenger. Its a pretty cool concert event and some even cooler artists have contributed. Our stream was all songs written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter. We covered China Cat Sunflower. I was drumming even though it's not my main instrument. It was super fun nonetheless. Anyway, check it out and feel free to check out the whole series on their website:  https://livefromoutthere.com/ . The full video is available here, blogger wouldn't let me embed it: here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xGY8pGSxrcdWSiIXYJoyqDcUT8DBmPEU/view?usp=sharing

Hello everyone, here is a link to a really great resource for finding opportunities. It is not just Chicago stuff! https://chicagoartistscoalition.org/resources

Film Stills Improvisations at the Sculpture Park (currently working on short films)

Due to my diminished access to human contact, I've focused more of my energy in the last few weeks on becoming comfortable with small-scale frontal portraiture again, something I used to be really invested in in high school. There isn't a particularly prominent single drive towards doing this except that I have always shied away from the learning process here because of how time-consuming and difficult it is to become proficient in drawing faces from imagination. I've been working on mini-portraits from a mixture of reference and imagination, with the hope that combining the two will speed up the process of being able to remove my guides and draw figures generatively.