{"id":22687,"date":"2022-05-23T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22687"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T16:20:17","slug":"camosun-visual-arts-students-showcase-work-in-foreward-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/05\/23\/camosun-visual-arts-students-showcase-work-in-foreward-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Visual Arts students showcase work in Foreward<\/em> showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"

First-year Camosun College Visual Arts students are currently showing their work in the Foreward<\/i> showcase at Lansdowne campus. Foreward<\/i>\u2014which has no set end date but will probably run until the end of June\u2014showcases pieces from six different first-year students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Camosun Visual Arts instructor John Boehme says that the critique area in the Young building between rooms 111 and 117, where the showcase is being held, is used for a reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe use the critique area as an applied outcome for the students to learn what it takes to install artwork,\u201d he says. \u201cOne of the outcomes is the Foreward<\/em> exhibition, which is highlighting the accomplishments of a selected number of first-year students who are enrolled in a Visual Arts class.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun student Jonah Randall’s art is showcased in Foreward<\/em>, up now at Camosun’s Lansdowne campus (photo by Jonah Randall).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s the first time the showcase is running in this format, as the Visual Arts department held the more comprehensive Out of the Grey<\/i> showcase for the past 15 years. Out of the Grey<\/i> usually included works from about 20 to 25 students; Foreward<\/i> is much more limited. The pieces in Foreward<\/i> get chosen by a jury after the students apply for the showcase; Visual Arts student David Rigel Blazquez made the cut. Showing his art makes him excited, but it can be difficult, he admits.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time [as being exciting] it\u2019s kind of awkward, because the pieces get attention, and that\u2019s good, but also sometimes I\u2019m kind of shy,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen I submitted these pieces, I wanted them to be showed with my classmates\u2019 pieces, so we could share the space and see all the others\u2019 work. So I think it\u2019s important also to not [make] a big fuss about a piece ourselves. I enjoy doing it and that\u2019s it, no glamour about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blazquez\u2014who has two pieces in Foreward<\/i>\u2014says that one of his pieces stemmed from an assignment based on minimalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to do something bigger than usual, to see if I could do it,\u201d he says. \u201cI just wanted to do something simple and very straightforward. So I played with angles and with 4 by 4 wood pieces and with screws\u2014big, big, big screws. Probably I would say that my inspiration was just to find new stuff and enjoy the process with wood.\u201d<\/p>\n

University Transfer student Jonah Randall has a piece made out of concrete in Foreward<\/i>. He says he got inspired by Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i\u2019s Endless Column<\/i>, as the objective was to take a minimal piece to its truest form.<\/p>\n

\u201cI essentially took his design and then just wanted to make it as minimalist and basic as possible,\u201d says Randall. \u201cIn his piece, there\u2019s more angles and you can see the woodgrain out of his. I wanted to do mine out of concrete, just a raw material. And there\u2019s a systematic part to it as well\u2014each side is 3 inches by 3 inches and it come in three-quarters of an inch, which mathematically adds up to an inch and a half, which is half of three.\u201d<\/p>\n

Randall took his former work experience as a carpenter into account when deciding to make a piece made out of concrete.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do enjoy the look of concrete when it\u2019s finished, but that was definitely the first time that I\u2019ve played with a form and used concrete to complete that form, \u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Randall says that he tried to make himself uncomfortable through his artwork this year and tried to push his own expectations.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeveloping an idea and then seeing how far I can take it. The Camosun studio definitely has everything available to really get your objective done, so to use that space as positively as possible, and just try and also not be afraid. If it goes wrong and breaks, whatever, oh well. At least you tried,\u201d he says. \u201cI tend to not play safe. I go big or go home, really.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First-year Camosun College Visual Arts students are currently showing their work in the Foreward showcase at Lansdowne campus. Foreward\u2014which has no set end date but will probably run until the end of June\u2014showcases pieces from six different first-year students.\u00a0 Camosun Visual Arts instructor John Boehme says that the critique area in the Young building between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22700,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22687\/revisions\/22700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}