Future Former: An Exhibition of Alumni Work

I explore materiality and the physical or emotional connections that occur between body and objec...

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The "Face Embryo" painting is representative of Abstract Expressionist work done when I first cam...

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I work with steel, primarily making architectural metalwork. Untitled Study was born from leftove...

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“The Ballad” is an ongoing collaborative project we began in 2005 while working toward our degree...

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Elizabeth Barick Fall Liz has a BFA from The University of Michigan and MFA in Metalsmithing fro...

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Years spent camping and hiking in the wilderness across the United States has led me to consider ...

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Entropy is defined as a state of disorder or decline into disorder. (http://www.yourdictionary....

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The oil painting of Matt was executed from direct observation, while appropriating the spirit of ...

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The treasures within a book are not be contained within it's vessel.

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Childhood imaginations are important signals for transitions to adulthood. This painting shows on...

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The symbols in this sculptural artist book were selected from databases cataloging the world's mo...

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This is my feminist interpretation of a classic Jewish fable of a humanoid created to help a town...

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Mid-Wilshire_The_City. Los Angeles. Here I am flattening out the busyness of the city. Everybody ...

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Alaiyo’s artwork takes a passionate view of a social conscience. In her work, she reconstructs dr...

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"The Gates of Thoth" is inspired by my love of travel and mythology. Use of imaginative realism a...

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Four weeks of my emotions.

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Spring Lake Lily is a work inspired by the lily pads that grow in the lakes in Canada that I grew...

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Transfixed by the glow of the items left by loved ones at mausoleums, I kept returning to this sp...

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It was exciting to study art at the old Architecture building in the late 60s. An Expressionist d...

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I created STATE STREET, ANN ARBOR while a student at the (then) UM School of Art. The vibrancy of...

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I was hired in 2013 by the University of Michigan Health System's Division of Gastroenterology to...

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My work reflects the fun, the mystery and the whimsy I find in the world around me. ....aspects o...

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This image is part of a larger wall-mounted diorama (18" x 65") constructed with 3D printed objec...

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I am a sculptor living in Maine and New Jersey. I use traditional clay modeling techniques joined...

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Illustration of the limbic system of the brain for an article, "Mapping the Brain" in Newsweek Ma...

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Cover art for the comic book series, The Calling. All art by David Campbell. * Logo/Masthead De...

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Back to the future ... again. GWC

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a relevant memory

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Occasionally I'm asked how long it took to "come up" with "that". My answer echoes the great Henr...

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My experience, the framework through which I learned to see the world, is that of of the white ma...

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Dimensions Variable will travel digitally & globally.

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"What would make the most sarcastic piece of art? That trash cat icon sticking sticking its middl...

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"Dumb bitch" is one in a series of six posters, created for Circle of Hope. The mission of Circle...

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Lately I’ve not felt like myself. I’ve become paralyzed, unable to put a pencil to paper like bef...

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I designed the poster for this year's Ravinia Festival in Chicago, inspired by classic posters fr...

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In recent work, I am focusing on blurring the boundaries of painting, printmaking and photography...

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In my works on paper, I explore a mosaic-like sense of place that spans across the specifics of t...

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My main job for the past 17 years has been a stay at home to two girls. As an artist, I use my wo...

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I started designing and making dresses out of automotive material as commissions for Charity Prev...

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My New Year's Resolution in 2013 was to take a picture every day. Sometimes it was a little snaps...

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Breanne Cremean is a costumer, cosplayer, and historic fashion enthusiast, known online as The Ge...

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Pat has been an independent designer/builder specializing in home design and remodeling. She and ...

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Bill retired in 1998 as Professor of Art, State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, N...

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I made it.

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I think of my creative process as a journey. This journey began long ago. I am a collector travel...

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I love collage. I collect and save paper, cut it up, and move the bits around until an image come...

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This painting, Guardian Angel, describes an encounter of a flower-shape spirit and a bird swoopi...

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Marisa Diamond currently resides in St. Louis, MO, where she works at Circus Harmony. With a deep...

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Both my painting and photographic work often deals with political issues...and has since my work ...

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I am inspired by the shapes, lines, and language in industrial society that convey information ab...

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My work showcases my love for color and texture. I am interested in creating variations in color ...

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I have been working on a project that reflects my travels to Cuba. This piece is one of three fea...

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My background as a NYC advertising art director and graphic designer, along with my love of color...

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Rust printed on fabric creates an almost illusive print, not completely there, yet substantial en...

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FC St. Pauli is a very popular football club in Hamburg, Germany. The 2017/18 kit designs were in...

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This is one of a recent series exploring themes from various religious doctrines. Photography is ...

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I am a collage artist and an openly ecstatic salvager who has always relished in creating new art...

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I paint in Series. This painting is my latest work, the 1st in Series #27 - FLORA AND FAUNA.

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TALES FROM THE BLACK NIGHT OF THE SOUL Once upon a time of dark, troubled nights, storyteller &a...

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Lindsay Farris is an artist and designer based in Detroit, MI. She started making digital paint...

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’Reading between the lines’ is a set phrase with literal and metaphorical connotations. It sugges...

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In 1969, the Dean of the School of Art advised that with my solid foundation in Fine Arts, I coul...

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Janie Fleckenstein is an artist who resides in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She specializes in bot...

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72" wide x 36" high cut-out relief of software generated images of archival inkjet prints on Epso...

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this is one of my anti war paintings from my graduate show in 1968 If you need contemporary works...

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One of my many portraits of music icons I have done through the years. I did a concert with john ...

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Bio gaye mcgraw gambell-peterson frolics about at age 78, pokes at myths. She is not yet weary o...

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The photograph is a transitory art object that continually explores how personal interactions wit...

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This is a recently completed drawing that looks to the past, my past, in order to move into the f...

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A commissioned portrait study of an old friend, using a pallet knife.

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Lake Sakakawea is a reflection of human intervention in nature. Located in my home state of North...

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This poster combines graphic design (my focus as an undergrad), watercolor (which I received an M...

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The consequences of art making endure. Ideas are frozen, slip away and resurface. Combinations st...

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A poster designed for the United Nations' poster contest commemorating the 70th anniversary of th...

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Sunny scene of students at Michigan's North Campus Bus-Stop.

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Alla Prima painting in Acrylics on Masonite. Energetic night scene of Michigan Stadium- Main Stre...

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Cartoons speak to both sides of the human brain, the visual and literary. For me it is truth tell...

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I regularly scan my surroundings for textures, lines, reflections, shapes, & shadows and abso...

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A rare moment alone.

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This 500-foot long public art mural was commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council to improve the...

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I enjoy creating special posters for friends and families. But this latest oneÉwell, let me tell ...

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My intention with this painting was to depict a scene, or mood, that typically arises when partne...

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ABSTRACT STITCH A single stitch is made by stretching a thread between two holes. The line forme...

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Experimentation and a love of color, shape, and geometric pattern are the focus of my process. I ...

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I am attracted to color and patterns ...hence The KOI POND

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My freestanding work is built from the ground up, attaching the legs to a base, and adding the ot...

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By recording the changing qualities of natural, artificial, and other ambient light, "Theater, Se...

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My work explores the meanings associated with physical material. The objects I depict have unique...

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Mori Insinger is a Boston-based fine art photographer, whose work focuses on the exploration of s...

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She is strong and determined. In front of bars that try to hold her back, she sits, ready to take...

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Marcella Janush-Kulchitsky has been an on the faculty at the American Unviersity of Kuwait as an ...

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The 360¡Advanced 4-Zone Toothbrush is the result of a devotion to designing extraordinary toothbr...

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Rosa Parks and Damon J. Keith gifted the world with their shared integrity, humanity and commitme...

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My work is a series of studies and reflections on how pattern emerges from random events, how ran...

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I firmly believe that we need to slow down and look around. We are all moving at “blinding speed,...

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"Chasing Rainbows on Poppy" is part of a series of 22 irises I painted in pastel from 2015-2017. ...

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My U-M degrees are in graphic design and art history, and I have been working as a graphic design...

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Remembering Georges Seurat & George Manupelli through Gallup Park on a Sunday

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This acrylic/mixed media piece is done on a wooden panel. The texture is created with molding pas...

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My paintings incorporate various images and pictorial modes to explore evolving notions of memory...

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i was (interestingly) right on the cusp of the computer revolution in graphic design while at u o...

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Bette Klegon Halby “Black Jax”, 2017 The city fuels my practice and fills my soul. It serves ...

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art never dies

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I drew this and I liked it. So here it is for you to decide if you like it or not.

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Measuring 60 x 104 inches this painting was commissioned for the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for C...

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This is a portrait of a local saxophone player.

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Reflects upon the endless quest for knowledge and curiosity.

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Since graduating from U of M, I have taken many art classes when not working at my library job. I...

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My Paintings (and "Paris Hybrid", 2016, is a good example) usually involve the relationship of di...

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Our fashion and beauty industry is breeding negativity through self deprecating expectations of w...

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My father (Professor Aarre K. Lahti, U of M) described Grandfather's (John Lahti) house painted i...

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Uncommon Nonsense is a series of woven works created to explore the various expressions that can ...

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During the time that I have worked with photography, I have seen many changes to materials and pr...

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Where did I come from? Where will I go? Was I yesterday's raindrops or pristine white snow? What ...

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Poster design was my greatest passion when I was a student at Stamps (so much so that two classma...

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While pursuing an MFA in Ceramics, Robin Leventhal took a summer job in catering. This lead to an...

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Richard Lewis’s artwork combines both traditional and digital painting and has been exhibited thr...

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I chose this piece for the Future/Former show because I feel it is a fusion of classical, and for...

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“Passing Through” is a digital illustration from a body of work titled “Passed, Present, Future.”...

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There are few things I like better than painting the patterns of flowing water. But finding the r...

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My work for the past 20 years has been capturing places beloved to me, such as these boats on Nan...

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By simply living one's life, countless opportunities to observe and document compositions of form...

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My work is about new beginnings, all possibilities, and a willingness to do what it takes to star...

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September 11, 2001 was one of the hardest days in my photojournalism career. I was the photo edit...

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At the age of 18, Lisa fell in love with the New England Island of Nantucket and began spending s...

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Industrial design for Target's housewares section under the brand "Ello."

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Unisource, a distributer of fine paper, sponsors a regional paper show every year for mills and t...

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This is to honor my beloved Ann Arbor and the Art School in which I had a riot learning! I feel t...

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I am a painter. I work with color to achieve movement and energy in a non-representational way. M...

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Section of a mural installed at the Downtown Grand Rapids Bus Depot. Depicts people riding city b...

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American Beauty is a watercolor, placed under glass, in a deep, black, boxed frame. The work can ...

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Package Design for Palazzolo's NEW Artisan Dairy product line.

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My work examines autobiographical depression and emotional reactions inherent to these states of ...

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An excerpt from Tamaishi, my second children's book. For the moment I find the simultaneous simpl...

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Adding drama and mystery through the use of powerful lighting effects, reflected surfaces, exagge...

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Zelda was designed to be customized. She can function as a border, or as shown here, a statement ...

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My Midwest and religious roots drive my work. The intent is to produce paintings that are distill...

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I became interested in the possibilities of kinetic movement through pure serendipity late one ni...

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A few years after a photography assignment took me to Tanzania, where I had the opportunity to ph...

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In the late 1990s Hollywood Boulevard started changing. I began documenting the streets, building...

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Although I know many artists find a medium, style or genre which they are comfortable with and st...

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Handmade dolls left behind by children lost during genocides in the USA and Europe inspired this ...

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In this design, I merged period imagery and design elements with a modern treatment of the type, ...

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After establishing a printmaking studio and a gallery and picture frame retail operation in Birmi...

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Kelly Jean utilizes a diverse and surprising array of household objects and tools to create her w...

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I am interested in the intersection between embodied experience and social structures. My newest ...

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I want to be submerged in living experience, to use paint, installation, textiles, sculpture or l...

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Trap rock is a kind of dark, igneous rock. Basalt is a trap rock. Round Mountain used to exist in...

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Here 2d and 3d are combined. When I look at this photo the treatment allows me to imagine my fing...

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I am intrigued by the fabrication process... of taking a flat sheet of silver and turning it into...

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My investigations into painting have led me to explore and use the mixed media aspect of painting...

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I continue to be very troubled by the ongoing war in Syria and its horrific effect on the childre...

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This print is from a series, Aquilegia/Columbine: Hawk/Dove, I began as the world was listening t...

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My approach is to discover and expand the many ways watermedia reacts in a search for synergy of ...

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Through multiple layers of paint and exploration of color, opacity, and texture, my artwork inter...

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Blue Heaven seems appropriate for a Michigan school exhibit. Lake Michigan is ever present while ...

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I am fascinated by natural landscapes, the visual impact of sky and earth compositions peppered b...

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Creative direction and graphic design for a series of kiosks presenting the military and natural ...

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Drawing circa 2007. Just started back drawing after years of mechanical CAD design when taking ca...

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A series of small collages have become the basis for new large-scale works on canvas. The composi...

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The tactile and visual world comforted me during a time when I couldn’t hear. As a young child ...

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To Breathe A Form 3:49 The screendance film “To Breathe A Form” embodies ballet dancers as livin...

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Throughout a career of nearly sixty years as a designer of magazines, books, corporate literature...

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Conceptually, this piece refers to the act of revealing, both physically and verbally. The edge o...

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Just as the millions of cells come together to create an individual’s thinking mind, so do the mi...

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I think most artist's statements distract from the work.

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Color Moves #6 is one in a series of dimensional paintings based on renewal. This offers the view...

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In nature --- searching for serenity as well as drama, within constant change.

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Blue and Black ballpoint pens on printer paper, drawn from a mirror. Red glossy waves resulted fr...

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This work is a reaction to the feeling of orange lighthouses in Iceland. My fabric works are expe...

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I focused on photography while at the University of Michigan and later in my career as a freelanc...

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In 2005, I founded a photography program for young people on the Cheyenne River Reservation in So...

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From my first visit to the High Line in New York - rhythm, shape, texture, mood.

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Jenny Schu received her Bachelors of Fine Art with a concentration in Fiber Art from the Universi...

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At its core, my work seeks to germinate relationships between narrative, identity, and landscape,...

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My four-year-old granddaughter taught herself how to swim last July by diving underwater to colle...

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Sometimes I feel like I'm made out of oil paint.

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Music + Art + Cocktails = A Great Design Project and Party! Font: Mr. Moustache

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As a graphic designer & illustrator, my studies at The University of Michigan forged a lifeti...

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Queen Esther I am fascinated by contrasts in both materials and subject matter. In my piece, “Q...

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My art work often reflects a specific happy memory from my childhood. I chose to paint the “tap s...

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Two chairs seek graceful migration to higher ground. One, from Robert Rauschenberg’s beach house,...

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My work taps into my journey from a troubled upbringing into adulthood. At once representational ...

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‘Roger’: A Private Eye is hired by a boxing promoter to track down his missing mistress. Soon, ho...

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The night before filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky left his family and homeland Russia, not certain if h...

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This relief is from a series of sculptures I've done which are drawn from contemporary life and t...

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In 1968 I started photographing images of the highway and then silk screening them. This image wa...

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Almost a lifetime of creating imaginary worlds peopled with characters and cartoons. Over a decad...

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The story of "AER HEAD" began as a surfer who predicts the future in his dreams, and is continuin...

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Inspired by precious life experience and a rich and varied pallet, my intent is to strike a chord...

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liz steketee photography 10 Madrona Street San Rafael, CA, 94901 http://www.lizsteketee.com¥ phon...

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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to...

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I am a graphic designer working for the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, FL, so much of my work...

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I make ethereal, mixed media landscape paintings in celebration of the natural world, typically b...

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Stopping along the shore of the St. Lawrence River on our way home from Maine through Canada, we...

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Miranda L. Tarrow is a mixed media artist currently based in the ersatz wonderland of Portland, O...

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Known for her dazzling work in rare gemstones, colored golds, and South Sea and freshwater pearls...

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As water flows around obstacles in a stream, so does wind creating less visible currents in the sky.

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Some days I trade Pantone swatches for fabric swatches. I’ve discovered my most creatively fulfil...

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For me, Art is a means of exploration and observation and to gain a better understanding of the w...

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Handmade paper has an extraordinary capacity for deep embossing and this has been the primary med...

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A color photograph of a black and white world examines the symmetry found in Nature.

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I’m fascinated by both the structure and functionality of anatomy, be that the anatomy of a human...

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This photograph is part of series shot at Three Forks Ranch outside of Steamboat, Colorado. After...

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The Future Cycles is a multi disciplinary project that includes the design and creation of experi...

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Consciously, Unconscious is a multimedia installation comprised of documentary photography, film,...

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Logo Creation Your logo is your customers’ first impression of your business. It should make a s...

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Illustration for MAD Magazine, the most recent in a professional relationship that stretches back...

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A mysterious setting and pose...sitting alone way at the end of the bench. Waiting for a bus afte...

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This is a digital still from the video, "Trial Child: Nurture a Better Nature," an unconventional...

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I love color, and my work is semi-abstract to abstract with inference. My work encompasses visual...

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A subject I have returned to many times is scenes from Eastern European shtetl life. I've been es...

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The word "universal" is defined as, "Of, or relating to, the universe, all nature, or all existin...

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Three dimensional fired and glazed Clay and re purposed metal coil construction. 60"h x 18"w x 12...

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Through the act of painting I wish to accomplish two objectives; one is to interpret my surroundi...

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This piece is the current evolution of work I have been doing since I was blown away by the Carl ...

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The four images, “The SCHOLAR, REALITY, The LURE, and CYBERED”, are a set of four collages create...

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“Elephant in the Room, A Response to Sandy Hook” U. of M. Art Alumni Show 2013, Slusser Gallery,...

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"Zen" is one of many mixed media paintings from my ongoing ReModeling Series. Using pencil, charc...

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Lips was the third in the first series that explored injecting acrylic paint into bubble wrap. Th...

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The development of Western ceramics owes a great debt to Asian ceramics traditions. The interior ...

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Self Portrait I of V shot on 35mm Black and White film, exploring the language of the body, compo...

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A "Retrospective of My Creative Work" includes: pencil and ink drawings; linoleum block printing;...

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Looking back, I think I'd always had an interest in scientific illustrations. I just never realiz...

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This image is from my ongoing assemblage photography series that uses multiple color digital imag...

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Image from the photo series taken on the ancient Silk Road

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My life is built on order. From my shoes, each in their own-labeled box, to my kitchen cabinet fi...

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I am a silversmith by trade. I've spent a long working life supporting my family with my craft. I...

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My work investigates memories and dreams often within a domestic environment. This image is part ...

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Monumental Landmark Sculpture for Washtenaw Community College, 1983 (22 _ X 17 _ X 13 _ ft) Symbo...

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Helter Skelter, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 54".

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