Byron Black
My recent work focuses on issues of identity, connection and consumption. Most of the imagery is derived from my dreams and is tied to a more conscious effort to restore significance and mystery to the material world.
Bryce Lafferty
The images in my work are suggestive of machines, organisms or systems that have some unknown function. They represent a constant visual development of my personal mythology. Paper, Charcoal, pen, acrylic and watercolor paint are responsive materials that I find lend themselves well to the intuitive involvement and spontaneous working methods that I enjoy.
Hyrum Benson
Currently I have been focusing with issues regarding architectonic and minimalistic forms using the formal elements as expression. I am interested in connectivity, both visual and physical, uniting forms thru line and shape. There is something in me that find it interesting in how things connect, maybe thins comes from how people are connected to others in this modern time. It is interesting how people are connected to each other through various means, electronic as well as physical ways, like family, but it is interesting to me to see how people communicate and interact with each other. My forms however are architectonic, quite different from the organic way that humans are, but that is just at a glance.
Brent Ozaeta
This body of work is interested in the juxtaposition of seemingly arbitrary imagery caused by the everyday bombardment of visual media via the Internet and namely Futaba Channel ‑a popular Japanese internet imageboard dealing with underground otaku culture. There is an underlying sense of fanaticism and banality in how the images are portrayed and although the images are specific they are implicitly incomprehensible. The content of the pieces substantiates through the re‑appropriation and disenfranchisement of the source images. The objective of this work is to birth a new fractured cohesion out of these disparate arrays of ideas trying to make sense out of the meaningless.
The process begins with consumption ‑sifting an amassed collection of media clips and traversing multiple states of being through digital gateways. And much like the idea of how dreams are created, I string together queries to the Internet and am presented with a representation of my thoughts. The challenge then becomes what needs to be filtered out and what needs to be retained. This is a struggle young artists today face in this age of highly accessible media‑rich data.
Aaron Kotara
I love life and live love.
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