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Senior Artists Explore the Human Experience
Katie Elliott
Staff Writer
Guilford's Senior Thesis Art
exhibit opened last Friday.
Guilford's finest - and finest-dressed
- showed up to mill around the
Founders Gallery, munch on finger
foods, and chat with the artists.
The annual exhibition displays
the work of graduating art majors.
This year, it celebrates the achieve
ments of six students: Lauren
Zeigler, Melissa Taylor, Marcelo Ta
bor, Despina Statelova, Noah
Howard, and Marc Bernstein.
Viewers got more than grapes
and brie, for there was both eye
candy and food for thought. The
show was filled with pieces startling
and beautiful: Statelova's body
casts, Bernstein's pyrography (lit
erally, "fire-drawings"), and
Howard's intensely personal ab
stract paintings.
Though the exhibition focuses
on content and theme, some of it
jarred with the easy social atmo
sphere of the reception.
Take Marcelo Tabor's subject
driven photographyfor example.
People fell silent as they stood
before his wall, full of photography
that contemplated "the reaction
ary experience of death." It
seemed the only appropriate re
sponse to his black and white im
ages of prone bodies, dead ani
mals, and burning cigarettes.
But the show's content was as
diverse as a Guilford promotional
brochure.
In the next room, painter Mel
issa Taylor's images of pomegran
ates and bedrooms explored fer
tility symbolism and reproduction,
while Lauren Ziegler's color stud-
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ies in fabric and paint address the
cycles of life.
Statelova's drawings and
sculptures feature images of her
self and her family. "I am in a state
of permanent transit; not a rite of
passage, but rather an exertion to
overcome self-imposed obstacles,"
she explained. "My passion is my
driving force."
In the midst of such serious
ness, though, humor still reared its
naked head.
Marc Bernstein's wood burn
ing "Ours, Absurd" displayed a
See Art Show, page 6
Sarah Austin and Vera Brown
Top: Howard's Memory. Bottom: Statelova's Wide
Open (Self-Portrait).
April 25, 2003
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