Artists
NHTI Visual Arts Capstone Showroom: Spring 2021
Represented
Exhibited
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Kaylee Gagne
Elizabeth Keleher
Olivia Langevin
Keegan Westgate
Kaylee Gagne
Artist Statement
My Art Journey
My work explores and illustrates the personal growth and development of being an artist. Saving and documenting my art works in sketchbooks and portfolios is a large part of my artistic process by providing a timeline and narrative of both creative and personal growth. Self-expression and storytelling have, and continue to be, a constant underlying theme in my artwork.
For as long as I can remember, I have been creating self-portraits and visual narratives with personal comic strips to help illustrate and tell my story. Using this as inspiration, I have created a body of work that explores my journey of becoming an artist.
Markers, colored pencils, and acrylic paint markers are media I am very familiar with and have been using since the very beginning of my art making. They allow me to capture the bright colors that reflect the characterized version of the world I perceive and explore in my work.
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Elizabeth Keleher
Artist Statement
Scary Characters
I have always loved the horror/thriller themes that you see in movies and television shows and this, coupled with some of my own terrifying nightmares and favorite freaky films, became the inspiration for this series of original characters. I produced my characters using a mixture of prisma gray and black pencils, micron pens, paint, and charcoal. Then to heighten the scare factor, I include various three-dimensional elements.
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Olivia Langevin
Artist Statement
Photography
This series of photographs symbolizes my interest in exploring portrait imagery, using mirrors and reflections as tools to influence how the viewer perceives the subject. In this series, I add a twist with color to demonstrate its physical and psychological effects as well as suggesting a mood in a photo. I use photography to create compositions that capture moments within human expressions and use mirrors and reflections to offer alternative viewpoints and strive to preserve moments in time. My art is a journey of self-discovery and self-expression, it allows me to step back and direct the composition and focus my self-expression behind the lens.
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Keegan Westgate
Artist Statement
Photography
I look at the art of photography as a way of documenting life. When I take pictures, it is about the idea of remembering and documenting the things that surround us that have aged or been passed by – like the cracks on the walls of an aging building or an abandoned factory that is left and forgotten on the side of a busy road. Many people will walk right by these sites and not look twice. For me it is a challenge to see a past life in the details that remain.
My work focuses on the forgotten details of aged and abandoned buildings. It tries to make visible the life the buildings once housed and to raise the question of what led to their ruined state.
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