Every year, students in East’s AP Studio Art class prepare a final portfolio for their exam. Here is a look at some artists’ works over the past year, and what’s inspired their art.
Sydney Lang
Sustained investigation: How can I paint the color/light that humans add or subtract to their environment?
Boat: The view from underneath a boat seeing the light emitted from whoever is above
Clothesline: A colorless city with the pops of color from the clothes, most cities in poverty tend to be dirty and industrial, however, tend to have pops of color from either clothes or textiles
Lanterns: based on an annual lantern festival at my grandmother’s house, all the houses light up the town with bright color
Lydia King
Sustained investigation: How can I explore the ways that Americans overseas craft their perception of home? When we look through the windows of the homes of American expatriates, what complex dynamics do we observe? When will this home be a center of a clash between American cultures and other cultures, and when will it be a fusion?
“I chose to explore my concept, the interaction of cultures in American expatriate homes, by using my own personal experience from living in Rwanda. As I started doing my pieces, I noticed that there was a lack of cohesiveness. So, I also chose to highlight windows in my pieces, hoping that each one lends an ‘in,’ or an insight, into the homes I depict. In my artwork, I have experienced with a variety of media, ranging from pencil to paint to colored pencil to digital. I have enjoyed both classic collage as well as digital collage.”
Sophie Vaughn
Sustained Investigation: How can I use lines and layering to deconstruct who people are?
“I wanted to create emotional pieces where vulnerability is beautiful and connotes strength instead of weakness. I use harsh contrasting lines to create movement and expression.”
Meta Zhou
Sustained Investigation: Exploring the things people do to find comfort.
“A lot of my pieces are centered around the more mundane aspects of daily life, since when I was researching my guiding inquiries I found that a lot of people cling to the smaller constants in life like making coffee or their morning routines. I want my pieces to create a sense of warmth to reflect that.”
Audrey Dezern
Sustained Investigation: How can I depict the factors that contribute to developing a sense of identity?
Emma Kang
Sustained Investigation: How can I portray social justice issues with a ‘superheroes saving the world’ perspective?
Elena Shapiro
Sustained Investigation: How can I explore perspective & disorientation through architecture using line, shape, and color?
“My sustained investigation explores architecture and which of its aspects can create a perplexing sense of disorientation. I have investigated and explored several mediums, (Ink/Digital/Acrylic), searching to find which best illustrates the clean-cut and complex weight of architecture. I have also stretched outside of the expected color pallet of most architecture to integrate a more bizarre and surreal nature to my work. Trying to incorporate aspects that work from the last piece to the next has been one of my priorities. The use of vibrant reds, and circular shapes intertwined with the rigid straight lines are but a few things that have, so far, been executed and explored repeatedly in hopes of ending with a composite and interestingly disorienting final piece.”
Milo Moskovitz
Sustained Investigation: Capturing the longing for what is no longer here
Anna DeCesaris
Sustained Investigation: How can I portray food from farm to table based on my Italian heritage?
“I began with the journey of strawberries, from the growing to the cutting/ preparing, to the displaying and selling of them in an Italian bakery. “
