Ad Hoc: A Show of Work by Undergraduate Students of UC’s DAAP

The UC Clermont College Gallery is presenting - Ad Hoc- a show that spotlights the creative process of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) fine arts students. Ad Hoc runs through November 4 and shows how students often push the boundaries of each concentration. Though students working in one concentration may choose never to interact with other media, most of the artists decide that communication with other mediums is essential to their own individual practice. 

Students in Fine Arts in DAAP pick one of three concentrations for their major: three-dimensional art, two-dimensional art, or media.  Students at DAAP have access to many facilities, including printmaking studios, a darkroom, a foundry and a metal and wood shop. Student curators, Jon Knight and Lindsay Nehls, coordinated the show.

Highlights about the student-artist:

•The atmospheres in Katelin Reeser’s artwork, such as abandoned buildings or landscapes, combined with the softness of the human form address issues such as young and old or beautiful and ugly which are present in our society and environment.  Reeser is a third year student studying photography, but she also loves drawing.

•Drew Sinclair is a fourth year student studying sculpture.A playful expression of his craft and sexual desires are the main sources of inspiration for the creation of the banana hammer.The combination of these two objects helps express the unification he strives for through his life and work.

•Lisa Iannarino is a senior studying photography and other media.The images shown here are part of a series shot in spring of 2009.They are the beginnings of her thesis work for this upcoming year.

•Joshua T. Smith, is a senior in art history with a minor in fine arts. His work explores the depreciated value of children and how we as a society today have reduced them to such commodities as shoes. The purpose of these works is to promote change and awareness for the betterment of our children.

•Steve Sherrit is in his fourth year studying sculpture. Blending the beautiful and the functional, the instrument and the sculpture, he created these handmade instruments in an advanced sculpture class.  He used traditional methods inspired by his own Appalachian heritage.

•Peter Miller is in his fourth year at DAAP studying sculpture and art education.  His work presents a permanent form rather than a temporary experience, pushes presence aware of the jaded and now faded relationship and makes the past a lesson to change.

•Aaron Conway is in his sixth year at UC studying photography and sculpture. is sculpture Jaws uses found materials to create an easel which shreds the artwork created upon it, commenting on the creative process.

•Nic Disimile is a fourth year student majoring in two-dimensional art with a primary interest in drawing.On a conceptual level, his work references the occult and his own childhood.

•John Auer is a third year fine arts student at the DAAP. He has just declared his focus in three-dimensional sculptural work.This sculpture is a Hydrostone casting made from a clay model of John’s own face.His sculptures deal with a more fantastic approach to the artist’s own life.

•Betty Hensellek is an undergraduate double major in art history and fine arts.She has grown up bicultural as a dual citizen of the United States and Germany, impacting both her creative work, primarily intaglio and painting, and her choice to explore German art history in the twentieth century.

•Allie Dupont is a fourth year student in Fine Arts.Her primary concentration is photography. Her work focuses on capturing elements of exploration and discovery. As a photographer, she is drawn to formal elements like color, texture, and the use of traditional materials like film and enlarging in the darkroom.

•Michael Englender is in his fifth year studying sculpture. His pieces were created using the lost-wax casting process and were cast in bronze in DAAP’s foundry class.

•Mauri Moskowitsz is in her third year studying fine arts.

•Lisa Tompkins is in her fourth year studying art education and two-dimensional art, with a focus on painting, drawing, and traditional animation.

The UC Clermont Art Gallery is sponsored by Park National Bank and is located in the Snyder building on the UC Clermont College campus in Batavia at 4200 Clermont College Drive. Gallery hours are Monday - Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and closed Sunday. The exhibition is free and open to the public.