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Eight graduate students will showcase art in spring exhibits
▶ SAMANTHA SEXTON
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The spring semester brings a unique opportunity for graduate students at the University to show off what research has interested them in their three years of study. Throughout the rest of March and the first two weeks of April, eight artists working with various media will present their thesis in the Art and Design Gallery in Chalmers Hall.
One such graduate student, Shelby Burchett from Liberty, Mo., has taken her previous education from the Kansas City Art Institute with textiles and fabrics and elevated it to a new creative process she's titled, "Goo-Witching: Hydromancy."
Burchett once focused on weaving as her art form and said working with the "goo," as she calls it, is just an elevated form of weaving. She said her research with goo and other unorthodox materials began as an accident after leaving unclean materials out for too long. Crystals began to form on one of her pots, peaking her curiosity in the chemical process that led to the formation.
"A lot of my work is experimental, but I definitely consider my textile background as the reason I'm working with such strange materials." Burchett said.
"I started to grow my own crystals and researched the chemical compounds of the material to experiment with the composition, and that's where I discovered
Burchett uses the flowing and evolving materials to highlight her interest in change and entropy. Fascinated with magic and the occult, Burchett said she uses her work to explore her spirituality while attempting to illicit child-like curiosity from viewers.
"When I came to KU I was opened up to so much I hadn't experienced before; I had never seen so many books," Burchett said. "I began looking at magical traditions and the anthropology of witchcraft and have been transitioning those ideas into my own personal belief system and spirituality through materials."
my goo," Burchett said.
Burchett said through her work she can explore both the science and magic of the world and that she's
always looking for new things to "fill her heart with child-like curiosity."
Another artist in the graduate program, Jason Zeh from Kansas City, Mo., also understands the concept of change and fluidity with his work that will be on display in the exhibit under the title, "Asynchronous: Voice & Body."
Zeh, originally from Bowling Green, Ohio, moved to Kansas City, Mo., after his partner accepted a job offer. Zeh, who has a master's degree in English, began teaching writing in the University's English department when he discovered the expanded media program in the School of the Arts, which he said worked perfectly given his other interests.
"My real life outside of
my job for the last 10 or 15 years has been devoted to experimental music," Zeh said.
Zeh primarily works with sound and will display a multimedia performance art piece during his exhibition, which may be more daunting than it sounds.
"I'll be performing for four hours a day all week long and fortunately everything has been so busy lately that I haven't had the time to appreciate the reality of what that means," Zeh said.
Zeh said he was listening to NPR when a speech therapist began to explain how she would help transgender people negotiate the differences between the speech patterns of men and women; his thesis has since been looking at just that.
"I've been looking into all of the non-language parts of speech that really say a lot about the societal concept of gender," Zeh said.
Zeh created a software that allows him to collect data as people are walking through his exhibit and translate that data in a way that distorts his voice to replicate the attitude or presentation of that person.
Burchett's exhibit will be displayed starting April 10 and ending April 15. Zeh's exhibit will be displayed April 3-8.
The dates and titles for the other six graduate exhibits can be found online at the University's calendar of events.
- Edited by Shane Jackson
Purehett is one of eight graduate students presenting their thesis in the Art and Design gallery in Chalmers Hall.
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