Kole Nichols
My undergraduate art practice has primarily consisted of the exploration of the liminal space between feelings of strength and fragility. The works I create often reflect themes of encapsulating adoption, self-identity, memory, and fear. Employing the use transparent mediums like tar gel, rice paper, emulsions, and resins my work bridges traditional forms of printmaking, drawing and collage. I use marks and fields of texture that reflect the brevity of life and provide narratives of fleeting autobiography. My work typically combines the use of ephemera, paper, thread, and fragments of made and found images that I re-contextualize and combine to create metaphoric narratives. These materials are utilized in effort to pair both graphic and abstract situations mapped from observations of repetition within my life. Through this body of work, I seek to urge the viewer to question and reflect upon their own identity, spirituality, fear, and familial relationships within the broad context of my research.
Hannah Slatsky
I illustrate cats in a simplistic and expressive way. I bring to life the spirts and inner personalities of the creatures I create in order to give the aesthete a flicker of exploration into the depths of my characters beings. My art is drawn from the spaces around me, anywhere from where I lay my head at night to where I hear angelic choirs each and every week. My Catholic faith, my cat Sasha, and the infinite beauty of nature all serve within the foundation of my unique artistic perspective. In my illustrations of cats of many different shapes, sizes, and personalities, I capture the inner spirt of spaces and the creatures that inhabit them, and how I relate to it and them on a personal and spiritual level. I illustrate these places and creatures into storybook atmosphere. These stories are intended to soften the hearts of those that see my art and to ask thought-provoking questions. These psychological questions are about the world around them, themselves, and where the source of beauty is from. To essentially reawaken people’s interest in thinking and thought processing, by use of approachable characters.