Student work displayed at ‘Parts Per Million’ show

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Angela Orellana-Aguilar, For the Review

The “Parts Per Million” exhibition opened last Wednesday at the Linfield Art Gallery.

The exhibition featured artists Julian Adoff, Heidie Ambrose, Richie G. Benson, Kellie Bowen, Jasmine Fojas, Jim Harger, Elsa Harris, Lan Kuan, Kristin Miller, Joel Mills, Jana Purington, Chandler Redding, Joel Wenrich, Kytana Winn, and Owen Woods.

The gallery displayed a variety of artistic modes such as photography, paintings, drawings and objects. The title itself reflects the ratio “part per million.”

“The piece was a response to a provocation from my Approaches to the figure class. Over all it probably took about 8 hours spanning 3 days.” said artist, Lan Kaun about what he did to prepare for his piece.

“The provocation I responded to was the figure under scrutiny, so I worked off of the idea of ‘deep looking’, which basically meant careful observation. By looking deeply at each of the subjects and attempting to most realistically depict them I was not only looking and scrutinizing them, but also intending them to appear to be looking back at the viewer. I thought it fit well into the gallery’s theme.”

An example of a “part” displayed in the gallery was painted by Elsa Harris, which shows half the face of a person with a variety of colors and brushstrokes. It’s shows only the profile of what looks to be a woman’s face.

Like Harris, all the paintings show that they can be a small portion of what could become a greater and bigger work. All show only a part.

All works of art are figurative and are made unique by their cropping techniques, silhouettes, and vintage points.