Into View

Diane Baron

photo of temporal art

2015

For our first student posting we have two very different artists with very different perspectives.

First up - is Diane Baron, she writes about pastureland near her home:

"This is a temporal sculpture, titled: "East Wind"; hurricane Joaquin.

Inspired by the natural surroundings, available materials and an odd wind direction blowing in from the east, instead of the typical west.  I was lead to construct this piece that reflected the weather at the time, using leaves from the corn field across the road.  The leaves were woven through the fence, around a central "eye" to represent the unusual direction of the wind.  Hurricane Joaquin was blowing up the east coast in early October, 2015 and at the time this art was constructed there was a counter clockwise low pressure wind direction.  After the storm passed, the wind turned to its normal direction -westerly - pushing back against the piece.  Later, my artwork was eaten by cattle that were let out into the pasture."

Diane Baron

2015

Our second student posting comes from Lingfei Zhao, who writes that he loves those paintings in which an artist can strongly express himself.  Here are his figurative works:

"Hope", acrylic and marker on canvas, 2015

by

Lingfei Zhao

This is the first painting I made after I entered Rochester Institute of Technology and it is kind of a self portrait.  I used a wood man instead of a human body as my subject in order to express that time is always changing, but I will not change.  I have no face and I don't care what happens behind me.

I am sitting on the edge of a cliff - which looks dangerous, but I know I will not fall.

"Portrait" by Lingfei Zhao

oil on canvas, 2014

I think this painting is meaningful for me and it was made in the fall of 2014.  The model is a best friend, and this was the first time I made a painting of him.   I was looking for a way to make my painting more interesting and funny, and I found that the more that I felt relaxed, the better I did.

This painting taught me a lesson:  to be easy, and paint with a good mood.

We hope you enjoyed our first posting of student artworks, and there will be many more for you to see, so look for us on a regular basis...