Student artists bring splash of color to Roesch
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Roesch Library will host Farbe, Couleur, Kleur: Difference, Variance, Repetition, a student art show from now until finals week.

The show features 22 student artists' work and is located on the first and second floors of the library. The show features some of the artists' best work and is the senior show for graduating students KC Wehking and Joe Hoffman.

The mediums used by artists vary. The title of the show was derived from the word color in different languages and the themes that are common throughout the piece: difference, variance and repetition.

One piece that addresses these things is 'Photobooth: 'The Light Bulb Went Off,'' a piece of digital imagery and inkjet prints, located in the first floor's gallery, by Wehking. The piece features photographs of everyone in Wehking's senior seminar class set up like the photos dispensed from a photo booth. Wehking created her own mock digital booth.

'In this installation of strips, the photo booth acts as a witness or mirror and the four final poses tell a story, unique to each individual,' Wehking writes in her description.

Her project captures the way each person reveals themselves in different ways. More of 'Photobooth' can be found on the second floor of the library.

Another one of Wehking's featured pieces is 'Made in America,' in which she used inkjet prints to reveal what she calls 'real world fashion ads.' The project originally started out as fashion ads, with most of her models being friends and family.

'I chose people without the perfect body,' she said. 'I didn't tell them what to wear, it was all them. And when I put all the photos together, it just clicked.'

Unlike common fashion ads seen in magazines today, the photos in 'Made in America' do not focus on a person's face, which often takes away from the ads. The piece is 'an accurate attention to composition and detail merged with a sense of color' which often include[s] a part of the subject's body.'

Ryan Dugan, a senior photography major, chose photographs from the past summer to showcase.

'Out of the hundreds of pictures I took this summer, these are the five that stood out,' Dugan said of 'Summer Series.' 'The work I did this summer is from places that I have a special connection with. The people who know the places will also have a special connection with [them].'

One of Dugan's photographs is from Pickel Fork Creek, located in Kentucky, where Dugan lived this summer during the UD Summer Appalacia Program.

'We were walking in this creek with all of these rocks covered in a yellowy moss,' he said. 'As we stepped on the rocks, the moss came off.' What was left was a single footprint, which Dugan then captured with his camera.

Another piece that stands out is Sarah Lowe's 'Untitled,' a mixed media piece. 'Untitled' consists of two photographs where the image of Lowe's inner child is revealed. The photographs are boarded with things from a childhood past: the game Sorry and a children's book.

These are just some examples of the many talented works showcased in the library. Viewing the pieces will give you 'a bit of a better understanding of what artists have been working on,' said Dugan.

So next time you need a study break at the library, carouse through the first and second floor to see the talented work of some of your fellow students.

The show can be viewed during normal library hours through the end of the semester.



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