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The Creative Process: “Theater of the Body” Photographic Series
Drawing from the series Theater of the Body I will discuss how these large scale photographs are a visual translation of the personal and social quest of individuals to understand the often ignored synergy between the body and mind. In this series as well as others such as What Remains, The Visual Monologues of Self Preservation, etc. I will illustrate how the body serves as the primary container of human existence and how humanity responds both intrinsically and extrinsically to the social conditions and theatrics of life.
Showing work within the mediums such as photography, make-up design, and theater practices, this presentation will show that the core of creating a consistent body of work likes within the ability to bridge both the subjective and the objective.
Biography: Trinidad Mac-Auliffe is a Chilean-born Photographer and Multimedia Artist. From 1997 to 2003 she lived in New York City and worked as a freelance artist until moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she earned an MFA with an emphasis in Digital Photography and Electronic Media from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture Art and Planning.
Trinidad’s work is deeply rooted in conceptual thinking and research, culminating in bodies of work that reflect her artistic and philosophical background. From early studies in anatomical drawing, she went on to focus on theatrical makeup and drama studies. Each of these disciplines is evident in her digital photography and video work, which has been widely acclaimed for its dramatic flair and profound messaging, most notably her Theater of the Body series. Along with her personal work, Trinidad has been involved with several artistic multimedia collaborations integrating music, dance and visuals. Working as a visual director and or as a producer and project consultant. Trinidad’s work has been exhibited internationally, including shows in Japan and Chile, and has
been shown extensively in prominent US venues in NYC, L.A, OH, C.O, etc ... she also works commission for private clients.
Numerous publications have featured Trinidad’s images and work, including Camera Arts, Nueva Luz, Beyond Race and Eyemazing Magazine, New York Times and Apple Pro website.
Awards include the Summer Fair fellowship, URC graduate fellowship and the Louis Rockwood Grant among other numerous awards Trinidad?s work has been honored with the En Foco New Works Award (2005); Best in Show for the Art Students League/NYC (2003); and numerous honor mentions including the International photography awards (IPA) 2008.
In 2008 she served as a juror for the Illinois art council Photography Fellowship Awards.
Trinidad’s company Athinline studio is opening this spring for commercial work and multimedia collaborations projects.
She is currently producing a Dance interactive piece in collaboration with Ksense company.
Her work is held in private collections in Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, England and the United States among others.
Bone Secrets
Craft’s reemergence as a socially progressive and culturally savvy aesthetic has filtered into much of contemporary art today. The soft and sly craftiness of knitted parking meters has become the reactionary clash to a technophile, mechanized world. Yet oftentimes it’s the paradoxical coupling of the two poles that signifies today’s culture. Ipod cozeys and on-line “stitch -n- bitch” journals, you-tube videos of guerilla knitting and blogs about extreme craft, all weave the otherwise contrary pairing of what could be considered the new the utopian “collective” with the isolationist and high-tech practices of blogging and web page creation.
My work plays traditional art making practices against new craft aesthetics and addresses language, meaning and memory through material study and exploration. The laborious process of hand-fabricating multiples to create larger structures reflects traditions of domestic labor, while the performative process creates a physically articulated response to today’s consumer, throw-way culture. I use fragile and temporal materials along with found objects and household items to create large structures and installations that explore space and sound and blur the line between private and public space through the reflection of meaning and structures of memory, language and narrative. The tension inherent in grand and miniature scale creates a striking statement and subverts the anonymity of the banal, domestic media that is used to create them. The creative process and word play act as metaphors for the exploration of power and passivity, creation and destruction.
Biography: Alice Pixley Young attended Ringling School of Art and Design and participated in the New York Studio Program earning a BFA in Painting and Printmaking. She received a MFA in painting from the University of Maryland and a MAAE from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and has taught at the University of Maryland, Behrend College, and the School for Creative and Performing Arts. Alice has been the recipient of a Cincinnati Artist’s Grant, has been featured on HGTV and in The Artist’s Magazine article “25 Under 40”. Alice has been an Artist-in-Resident at the Vermont Studio Center and the Contemporary Artist’s Center in Massachusetts. Most recently, she was awarded a fellowship for residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives and teaches in Cincinnati, OH. To view more of her work, you can visit her website at www.pixleyart.com.
Jason Snell
Designer and Animator at LightborneA Collection of 20 Questions
Presentation description to come.
Biography:
I’m a male who lives in Northside, Cincinnati, Ohio.
I design, animate, paint, make art, make music, cook and make jokes.
I work at Lightborne as a designer and animator.
I perform with The Chocolate Horse and The Spurzz.
I continue to work on my haus with my girlfriend and our two cats.
Battelle AirTouch Wall
The Battelle Wall is an interactive video wall created by White Design Studio and Obscura Digital for the Battelle Facility in Columbus, Ohio. Check out a video demostration on YouTube.
Biography: Thomas Dangerfield is a designer at White Design Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Cleveland Institute of Music and earned a BFA in Jazz Studies and earned a BS in Architecture from DAAP at the University of Cincinnati. He is interested in using design principles from all media to inform whatever he is working on. He is interested in blurring the lines between media and designing delivery systems that feel natural, even self evident to the user.
Build with Bullets or Die
Presentation description to come.
Biography: Born and raised in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Boyd has traveled the world forward ‘n back a time or two – in distance and experience. From being a Navy Man on the islands of Nippon, to a Brew-Meister for Tabernash & Left Hand Brewery and just a lover of darn good beer, to graduate student in Rome, to a mudslinging, CAD wheeling DesignBuilder in Colorado and Kansas; Boyd is a Colorado mountain man, turned architectural urbanite...sprinkling a little bit of Green to wherever he goes, whatever he builds, and whomsoever he knows.
Dead Meat
Presentation description to come.
Biography: Lauren Davis is a Fashion Design student at the University of Cincinnati and a Trend Forecasting Intern at LPK.
What’s Love Got To do With It!
Presentation description to come.
Biography: Always luv to draw! Worked in Ad bizz then to Brand world in Chicago. Currently Des. Director @LPK.
Traditional Tattoo Images
Having tattooed for 38 years, I have seen several styles in designs come and go. Starting with traditional designs, I have tattooed fine line, Japanese, tribal etc trying to change with popular request. Although popular styles develop, swayed by pop culture and media exposure, my present interest is in the early American traditional tattoos 1900-1950. The presentation will be tattoo designs of that era and the influence they have had on my personal art.
Biography: Biography to come.
Jason Brunson
Graffiti ArtistWRITING (An Evolution of Style)
This slideshow will show the development of graffiti style from the simple tag to the complex wildstyle and every thing in between.
Biography: Jason Brunson started writing graffiti in 1993 and is still currently active.
Karl Wallick
Professor of Architecture, University of CincinnatiBiography: Biography to come.
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