Each semester, the art students at Flagler College have their time to shine — presenting their work to faculty, family, visitors to the area, community members and fellow students. On Thursday, Dec. 12, the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum hosted an opening reception of the Department of Visual Art’s bi-annual exhibition of work by B.F.A. and B.A. candidates.
The show featured the creative endeavors of Flagler College’s graduating seniors, encompassing painting, drawing, video, installation, sculpture and textiles. A wide array of large-scale, multi-media installations were made with everything from canvas, wood and sod to doilies and lace while other students chose mediums like archival inkjet prints, video installations and papier-mâché.
Abigail Lanza’s “The Home Within” explores the inner landscape of her “coming home” — a journey of returning to oneself. The installation, made from paper, clay, canvas, wood and sod, was constructed in the middle of the west gallery.
“The rigid fence in my installation represents societal standards, while my home, stitched together in an intentionally irregular form, symbolizes individualism and personal truth,” Lanza explained in her artist statement.
Another large-scale installation in the west gallery was Hannah Garrido’s “maternity pen,” fabricated from doilies and lace and a single channel video.
“In “maternity pen,” milk spills through the gaps of lace, and delicate patterns of care become cages,” Garrido wrote in her artist statement. “Materials traditionally associated with domesticity and feminine labor serve as potent symbols of nurturing and entrapment.”
Other student work featured include Ruth Coffman’s “behold! a woman,” Kariel A. Rivera’s “El Peso de los Rostros,” Reese Haselden’s “Norms and Negatives,” Taylor Hillyard’s “Nose to the Grind,” Emma Chouinard’s “Artemis,” Moss Skula’s “Faded to Fracture” and Brandon Santiago’s “The Cost of Compromise.”
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College is located at 48 Sevilla St., St. Augustine. For further information on programming, go to flagler.edu/ceam.
The museum’s hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays while classes are in session.