Studio Research 2011/12

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Monday, April 9, 2012

Tony Orrico

Tony Orrico is a visual artist, performer, and choreographer. His Penwald Drawings are a series of bilateral drawings in which he explores the use of his body as a tool of measurement to inscribe geometries through movement and course. The master of each drawing is a conceptual score of Orrico's efficacious techniques, imposed variables, and specified durations and/or objectives. He explores the limitation of (or the spontaneous navigation within) the sphere of his outstretched arms, considering themes of repetition, locomotion, refraction, and eventual exhaustion. He performs his ideas live as a shared process that yields a unique impression or print of the original concept.

Tony Orrico's website

Ana England

Net (2002)

As a connecting element to the building, motifs on interior walls celebrate the interconnectedness of the various disciplines within science and mathematics. Designed by Ana England of the Department of Visual Arts, the representations are at one level realistic, depicting forms in nature such as strata of rock, cells, wings, seeds, molecules, and geometric shapes, and at another level highly symbolic representing interdependency, the life cycle, inquiry and research, numeric systems, learning, and transformation. [As described by the Natural Science Center website: http://campusplan.nku.edu/academic_buildings/science.php]
[Abstract from artist statement Ana England, A celebration of interconnections] “Net” is shorthand for network, a system or group of interconnected individuals….England derives the literal image of Net from the algae net that lies on top of still water, whose structural forms are visible under a microscope. Microscopic plants like algae exist in colonies; each plant is dependent on and linked to the others.