On the Cusp<\/em> is the year-end exhibit from Camosun\u2019s Visual Arts grads (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWorks in the exhibit utilize a variety of mediums, from paint to clay to animation.<\/p>\n
Non-abstract work has a specific subject to convey to the viewer; Seifried says she just kept adding paint to keep her mind from going to a place of traditional, non-abstract work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was more about how the paint and the canvas interact and putting the paint on the canvas and less about having a subject matter,\u201d she says. \u201cThe paint was the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n
Camosun Visual Arts chair Brad Muir says the show relies solely on the students, who, he says, are constantly on the edge of success, failure, knowing, and not knowing, hence the name of the exhibit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no place here without them,\u201d says Muir. \u201cThere\u2019s no future without them and there\u2019s no past without them. I think that\u2019s the exciting part for me, that every year we get to see the results of two years of hard, intense, focused, and sometimes unfocused engagement, where the end result is palpable.\u201d<\/p>\n
When it comes to creating art, it\u2019s in the artist\u2019s nature to stop when the art in question looks good, but Seifried says she just had to keep going with her work that will be displayed in the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a lot of just accepting that I had to keep going, even though there was already a good painting\u2014just keep adding to it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Seifried says the Visual Arts program was a learning experience on how to let people in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not an incredibly vulnerable person,” she says, “but the vulnerability in art kind of comes with it when you\u2019re digging deeper into concepts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seifried says that all her classmates were great people to open up to about the personal subject matter of art.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really easy to claim that what you\u2019re making doesn\u2019t have a personal connection and that it\u2019s just a picture; often it has deep meaning and usually you\u2019re compelled to make art\u2026 For me, it was a lot of personal experiences that got brought up, and it\u2019s really hard to share those things with a room full of strangers,” she says.<\/p>\n
Seifried says she feels that the Visual Arts program at Camosun is about figuring out who you are as an individual artist.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really important to figure out what your message is an artist if you\u2019re trying to disseminate yourself through the community,” she says. “Get out there and have your art out, but it\u2019s really hard to make people connect with your art if all you\u2019re saying is that you\u2019re just making it for the sake of making it.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the Cusp
\n<\/em>Until Friday, May 4
\n747 Fort Street
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