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2024 BA Senior Studio Exhibition

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The 2024 BA Senior Studio Exhibition is on view at Stamps Gallery December 4-15, 2024.
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Events & Exhibitions

Continuum, by Kelly Church, and Carriers of Culture, by Cherish Parrish
STAMPS GALLERY Kelly Church & Cherish Parrish: In Our Words, An Intergenerational Dialogue September 13 – December 7, 2024
Ty Jeffries, as Miss Hope Springs, wears a bright yellow and red dress
PENNY STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES Ty Jeffries: Miss Hope Springs December 5, 2024
STAMPS GALLERY Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins June 21, 2024 – May 8, 2025
ADMISSIONS EVENT Virtual Information Session December 2, 2024
STAMPS GALLERY Bittersweet Bliss: 2024 BA Senior Studio Exhibition December 4 – 14, 2024
STAMPS GALLERY Opening Reception: Bittersweet Bliss December 5, 2024
ADMISSIONS EVENT Stamps In-Person Tour & Info Session December 6, 2024

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Exhibition Image Emilia Yang: AMA y NO Olvida, Museum of Memory Against Impunity Faculty Emilia Yang: AMA y NO Olvida, Museum of Memory Against Impunity
Taylor Henegar: Fake It 'til you Make It Taylor Henegar: Fake It 'til you Make It Undergraduate Taylor Henegar: Fake It 'til you Make It
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Patchy Anthropocene (Buffalo Bayou) is an 11 foot by 28 foot photo-textile collage of photographs taken along Buffalo Bayou, an urban waterway that runs through Houston. Made up over six hundred inkjet-printed sheets of recycled cotton muslin dyed with acorns, the bottom portions of the piece are greener, showing more trees, flowers, birds, insects, and wetlands, whereas the upper portion of the piece, which depicts recycling plants and petrochemical industries along the Houston Ship Channel, is grayer. The work is installed at the Moody Center for the Arts. Angela Chen: Patchy Anthropocene (Buffalo Bayou) Faculty Angela Chen: Patchy Anthropocene (Buffalo Bayou)
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'LoBack Meat Co.' is a 18” x 24” 6-layer reduction woodblock print on paper based on a photograph of a neon sign at Seattle's Pike Place Market. The sign's typography reads "LoBACK MEAT CO. QUALITY ALWAYS," but it has been cropped to "BACK MEA QUALITY ALW." The neon sign itself is a bright ocean blue in the upper foreground of the image, with the letters themselves contrasting in a rich yellow-orange. The outside of each letter is outlined in a bright purple, making the letters appear three-dimensional against the sign's blue background. A hallway leading back into space is depicted in the background, with a line of circular lights fading into the background on the faded purple ceiling. While the sign and typography stand out in a graphic way, the scene feels nostalgic and faded. Within the image's background is a faded gray rectangular sign with letters that look like words but are too illegible to read. The nostalgic feel of the words and the faded color palette are representative of a memory for me. I began to experience chronic memory loss after being diagnosed with mold poisoning shortly after graduating from high school. I was able to take a road trip across the Pacific Northwest with my stepfather in the summer of 2021. This was the first trip I was able to take since becoming well enough after my diagnosis, and I took hundreds of photos out of fear of forgetting the memories we were making. Each edition of this print explored the feeling of nostalgia, much like the flash of a memory we get of a time and place we can't quite pinpoint that's buried deep in our subconscious. Looking closer at the image, each cut is quite expressive as I explored my spirit and self through the cuts of the woodblock. As each subsequent print is printed, the previous one is carved away, leaving a fully carved block at the end. Paige Gilstad: LoBack Meat Co. Undergraduate Paige Gilstad: LoBack Meat Co.