Drawing in Motion is an exhibition featuring student work from Amber Tutwiler's Drawing II class at Utah Valley University (Fall 2020). This online exhibition was built in response to the pandemic. If this were a normal situation, we would all be in a classroom making physical work – but this is not a normal situation. Our final project required a different language. As such, these drawings have situated themselves in the digital realm in the form of GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format). Historically, GIFs were created to fill the need for a more compressed moving-image. These digital flipbooks are like capsules that contain consolidated gestures; their effectiveness is in their brevity. On the negative, GIFs can condone a "culture of distraction" (Hampus Hagman) – but they can also provide respite, humor, intimacy, and community. Ultimately, these works are designed to probe at the definition of drawing while addressing the ways that the pandemic has shaped our relationship to digital spaces, nature, each other, and ourselves.
Artists
Cheska Banez
Kathleen Banks
Hannah Brown
Aysia Dailey
Maddie Dismuke
Madison Ellis
Emily Ferguson
Abby Jones
Brookelle Jones
Soobin Kim
Kiana Lennon
Jordan Smith
Rebekah Still
Paul Taylor
Grace Vargason
Matt Willis
Amber Tutwiler is an artist from South Florida whose hybrid practice expands on figurative oil painting to describe our relationship to digital spaces. She attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design for Painting, received her BA in Psychology from Florida Atlantic University, and received her MFA in Visual Art from Florida Atlantic University (2017). In 2018, she had her first solo exhibition, Interface, and collaborated with Ballet Florida in an immersive performance, Welcome, at Fritz Gallery in West Palm Beach, FL. In 2019, Ballet Florida and Tutwiler collaborated again with PULSE, which debuted in March 2019 at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. She has won various awards, including the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in 2019, which resulted in an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Most recently, she was a resident at IS Projects where she experimented with CMYK lithograph prints. She just relocated to Vineyard, Utah, where she is currently a Lecturer at Utah Valley University.