Art and Design 2026 SOURCE Art + Design Creative Expression
Jez Aikala, Devon Cervine, Taylor Downard, Angelo Ferolito, Rieley Iverson, Lars Kent, Jamie Klein, Laura Le, Ember Learn, Ethan Magnaghi, Meredith Montgomery, Katrina Nolan, Lena Olsen, Anna Radtke, Luna Redhawk, Simone Stanish, Paige Staudohar, Sophie Svarthumle, Otto Travis, Hurston Trickle, Devona Vader, Jack Wyman, Rune Abernathy, Paige Henderson Project Mentor(s): Erika Pazian, PhD; Kyung Hee (Kate) Im This exhibition showcases the work of students in the Art + Design department. This is an invitational exhibition juried by department staff and faculty of the Visiting Artists, Speakers, and Exhibits committee (VASE). Students are encouraged to submit work in a variety of media. This work has been created within the last two years. The subject matter and concept are open; students include a short description of their work to provide context. Presentation Type: Exhibition (May 21, 9:30am–5:00pm) Keywords : Art, Design, Exhibition SOURCE Form ID: 182 John Singer Sargent and the Fin de Siècle: The New Gender and Sexuality in Painting Lars Kent Project Mentor(s): Erika Pazian, PhD John Singer Sargent is most famously known for his Portrait of Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, better known as Madame X (1884). Today the work is synonymous with scandal in the art world, yet it is only one of many portraits created by Sargent that represent the fin de siècle (end of century) and its spurred- on anxieties regarding gender and sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century. While Madame X shocked with its allusions of eroticism, Sargent’s portraits – depictions ranging from high-class people like actresses and presidents, to everyday persons like elevator operators and journalists – were reflections of the society that fostered their creation. The end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth coincided with the increase of insecurity of gender in America and western Europe, especially in tandem with the increasing access to education among the upper and middle classes. Deviance from expected gender roles was an abominable act, just as it was a seminal one. Sargent’s portraiture visualized variations in this new expectation of gender and sexuality in ways that allowed him for movement within the same era he depicted. This presentation contextualizes Sargent’s artistic choices within his personal life to show how portraits such as Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes (1897), interrogated expectations of gender and sexuality. Sargent’s personal associations with queerness informed his creative choices in his depictions of upper-class sitters that would not usually be seen as part of the “new gender” of the fin de siècle. Presentation Type: Oral Presentation (May 20, 9:30am–5:00pm) Keywords: Art History, Portraiture, Gender, Sexuality SOURCE Form ID: 157
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