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the 2018 Thesis and Senior Exhibition

May 12 - June 1, 2018

install view of a gallery with white walls, wood floor, ceiling grid; various 2D works are installed on the walls; a large wood-framed box sits in the middle of the gallery; 2 large video monitors in wood frames hang from the grid in front of the box

The Art Department only began making full exhibition websites in conjunction with the annual Thesis and Senior Exhibition in 2020, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will not attempt to recreate a 2020-and-beyond-era exhibition site for earlier senior shows. Instead, below you may find representative images of least one piece of artwork for each artist in the show. If you wish to learn more about a particular project or to read more of a particular artist's statement, we encourage you to seek out their work elsewhere online, or to visit the Art Office at Wellesley to see the rooted catalog in person.

thesis students

gallery installation, large, nearly floor-to-ceiling grid of collaged prints with botanical forms at left, smaller framed orange print at right

Breslin Bell

Revisiting Marginalia: A Print Conglomeration of Plant and Place

screenprint, linocut, collage, thread

gallery installation with Tamil text prints on wall, jumble of clay-covered Tamil letter forms on floor, suspended video monitor with image of perosn in white tank top

Anjali Benjamin-Webb

Of Tigers and Panthers

tobacco-scented clay, sand, paper, mixed media sculpture, vinyl lettering, text, performance, video

salon-style hang on gallery wall of small wood cabinet with objects at left, multiple small colorful paintings and drawings, primarily of women and mystical imagery, at right

Nadine Franklin

The Supernatural, the Beautiful, and the Halo

oil on canvas, gouache on paper, graphite, fabric, thread, fake flowers, color pencil, metal pendants, glass containers, wood and glass found cabinet

large installation of multiple triangular canvases stretched with floral fabric

Isabella King

Woven in Paint

oil paint on curtain; found image collages

silver mylar blanket-covered wall at left, white wall with reflections from the mylar at right, shelf with row of white metronomes

Juyon Lee

Drawing with Space and Time

wood, drywall, work light, Mylar emergency blankets, fan

projection of a 3D rendered digital landscape, showing the view from inside an animal pen

Michelle Lu

Slaughter

VR installation with Unreal Engine 4

gallery view of install along one wall, from L to R: charcoal drawing of the some person several times in different clothing; white sweatshirt on hangar with brown word 'SEE' on front; small video monitor with headphones, showing image of person touching their short dark hair; white sweatshirt on hangar with red word 'ME' on front

Melina Mardueño

Traduciendo Mi Reflejo: Do You See Me?

charcoal on paper, heavyweight cotton, human hair, video

installation in space with gray fabric wall and tile floor; elaborate red/orange/yellow feathered costume on dress stand; blue house door in freestanding white wood frame

Ilana Meeker & Lanie Najjab

The Unclouded Realm

stop motion animation, digitally-drawn animation, live action video; archival drawing, print, and sculptural materials from the making of the film

installation with partially visible desk and wall with many small prints, photos, post-it notes, and small projection

Grace Ming

Memories of Asian America

interactive installation with paper, ink, found objects, archival inkjet prints, video, audio

other participating Class of 2018 artists

architectural model of an angular building with slatted walls, two stories, greenery on the roof

Siobhan Finlay

See You at the Student Center

plywood, chipboard, fake plants

several thin wood gear shapes with elaborate lasercut patterns on their surfaces, all mounted to a wood surface

Michelle Gelberger

Turnt

laser cut balsa wood, plywood, shoulder bolts

Natassja Haught

Collage #1 and Collage #2

oil on canvas

white marble foot sculpture on a terrazzo tile floor

Christina He

Stood

marble

large abstract painting, geometric shapes in blue and green on white background

Ingrid Henderson

(Un)Conditional Shades

oil on canvas

still life painting with various objects and draped fabrics

Anran Li

Vanitas

oil on canvas

several large pieces of paper and pieces of drywall painted white, all with charcoal forms on them that look like remnants of gestural performances

Julia Li

The Human Condition

loose charcoal on drawing paper and painted drywall, performance

small round wood table with leather circle inset on top, 4 legs leading to a double layer wood base; the table top is connected to the base with many fishing lines attached to metal hardware at the base

Brianna Love

Resonating Table

wood, fishing line, leather, metal

knitted hanging tube-like sculpture in shades of red, purple, white, orange in a space with concrete walls and a slit window

Esther Miller

Remnant

acrylic and wool yarn

slightly angled view of large video monitor showing image of a person drinking in front of wall murals

Emily Moore

Your Loving Son

video

painting of a woman with dress, earring, red and white flowers in her hair looking over her shoulder at the viewer on blue background with pearl-headed pins

Veronica Mora

Running Stitch

oil, thread, pearl sewing pins on canvas

four gold and black prints on a board-formed concrete wall; pedestal in front of them holds a sheet of plexi with pieces of broken pottery and rice

Mina Oh

Kintsukuroi

broken pottery, mica powder, epoxy, rice, print

sculptural handmade artist's book in a round form with brown, green, and white papers

Clare Sachsse

Seed Leaves

handmade Phragmites fiber paper, ink on Mohawk Superfine paper, watercolor paper, binder's board, magnetic closure, linen thread

corner of two walls covered in loose grid of white plaster tiles, with small video projection on each wall; a few broken tiles are at the base of the walls

Jocelyn Santiago

Mira, that's

2-channel video projected on hand-cast plaster tiles

video of wall, baseboard, floor with caption text projected onto a black wall; at left is a window

Lark Serna

Excerpts from a Failed Documentary

digital video, projection

2 similar prints with slightly different colors of a person with long dark hair and a yellow halo around their head cradling a baby; the left print is framed

Arleny Vargas

Borderlands

screenprint and tissue paper

several human-like shapes cut out from paper or fabric with printed details hung on walls in a blue-lit room

Isaac Zerkle

When You Go, What Will You Leave?

silkscreen, lithography, mixed media installation

angled close up on two grayscale photographs of a mirrored human silhouette in the woods

Alaina Zhang

Mirrored Figure in the Woods

darkroom-printed photographs on Multigrade IV RC Deluxe Pearl photographic paper

white plaster cast of the Venus de Milo statue in a space with large windows and tan wall; a white brise soleil is visible through the windows. To the right of the statue is a very tall painting of draped pink satin fabric against a patterned fabric background

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