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Human-subject paintings shown at NT
Seniors' work displayed in Union Gallery
Victoria Smithee
Issue date: 10/10/07 Section: ARTS
Artwork by Bastrop senior Rachel Fischer and Dallas senior Giovanni Valderas will be on display beginning Oct. 8 on the third floor of the University Union Gallery.
The collection, titled "Stroke," includes 14 full-color paintings, depicting human subjects.
Valderas said he and Fischer had an art class together and decided to submit an application to have their artwork displayed.
Valderas, a painting and drawing major, said he began to get serious about his art a few years ago when he enrolled in college.
Valderas said he draws inspiration from his family life and many of his paintings focus on his 6-year-old son and the period of childhood before the teenage years.
Some of Valderas' paintings could be considered mixed media, he said.
The cover of an old Boy Scouts manual acts as a background to one of his paintings in the collection, and an advertisement for Circus Animal Crackers gives a photographic backdrop for a circus painting, he said.
Flowermound freshmen Melissa Condrack and Kim Minick said they were walking through the Union and stopped in the gallery.
"I think they're all awesome," Condrack said of the artwork.
Condrack said she liked Valderas' work because of his mixed media style.
"He had newspaper prints, like a collage," she said.
Minick said she liked Fischer's work because of the texture she incorporates in her paintings.
"I like the textures and colors she uses," she said. "It's more intimate and personal. It looks like her subjects might be her family."
Fischer said her oil paintings depict her friends, family and neighbors.
"The reason I paint my subjects is because I like to share with viewers and give them a chance to identify with a person and to form a narrative with people they don't know," she said.
Fischer said she has been painting on and off for most of her life.
"I really identify with large-scale types of forms and intense colors," she said. "I like a lot of movement in paint."
The Union Gallery is operated by Design Works and manager Carol Wilkinson said she is accepting applications from artists who want their work shown in spring and summer 2008.
"The majority of the artists are students, but anyone can apply to have their work shown," she said.
The exhibition is free, and the gallery is open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The "Stroke" exhibit will be on display until Oct. 25.
The collection, titled "Stroke," includes 14 full-color paintings, depicting human subjects.
Valderas said he and Fischer had an art class together and decided to submit an application to have their artwork displayed.
Valderas, a painting and drawing major, said he began to get serious about his art a few years ago when he enrolled in college.
Valderas said he draws inspiration from his family life and many of his paintings focus on his 6-year-old son and the period of childhood before the teenage years.
Some of Valderas' paintings could be considered mixed media, he said.
The cover of an old Boy Scouts manual acts as a background to one of his paintings in the collection, and an advertisement for Circus Animal Crackers gives a photographic backdrop for a circus painting, he said.
Flowermound freshmen Melissa Condrack and Kim Minick said they were walking through the Union and stopped in the gallery.
"I think they're all awesome," Condrack said of the artwork.
Condrack said she liked Valderas' work because of his mixed media style.
"He had newspaper prints, like a collage," she said.
Minick said she liked Fischer's work because of the texture she incorporates in her paintings.
"I like the textures and colors she uses," she said. "It's more intimate and personal. It looks like her subjects might be her family."
Fischer said her oil paintings depict her friends, family and neighbors.
"The reason I paint my subjects is because I like to share with viewers and give them a chance to identify with a person and to form a narrative with people they don't know," she said.
Fischer said she has been painting on and off for most of her life.
"I really identify with large-scale types of forms and intense colors," she said. "I like a lot of movement in paint."
The Union Gallery is operated by Design Works and manager Carol Wilkinson said she is accepting applications from artists who want their work shown in spring and summer 2008.
"The majority of the artists are students, but anyone can apply to have their work shown," she said.
The exhibition is free, and the gallery is open 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The "Stroke" exhibit will be on display until Oct. 25.
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