Caitlin Pupich: Sound and Image

Gallery: Joan Arrizabalaga             Arrizabalaga currently holds many pieces in the University of Nevada, Reno’s gallery. While she works in many mediums, some of the most astonishing and unique pieces that caught my eye in this gallery are the stonework sculptures she created. Of these stoneware creations, I chose Shiva, Goddess of Luck to analyze and understand in this paper.             This piece hangs on the wall as a shiny stone sculpture. Its unique shape and content immediately caught my eye.  The central part of the sculpture is comprised of a slot machine shape. The shape shows where you can insert the money at the top, the three slots that are randomly rolled, and where the money can come out.  While most of it is covered in a pearly white, it has bright yellow bars of color, as well as bright red cherries, which are a common symbol of gambling, pain...

Artist Talk: Nicole Pietrantoni’s Early Work Throughout her studies and travels, Pietrantoni was able to develop a theme in her work: the complex relationship between humans and nature.  Even as her art continues to change and evolve with skill and experience, this theme still drives her work. The first piece she displayed, titled The Romantic in You , takes a romantic image of a landscape of nature and emphasizes its manipulation even further. She pointed out that even the earliest nature photographers manipulate their photographs through combining multiple images. In this way, from the beginning of this form of art, humans have romanticized their ideas about nature’s landscapes.  With her work, she took one of these romantic photographs herself and printed it onto plexiglass and then shined a light through it. This emphasized the manipulation of images that people have conducted throughout their artistic experience with nature. Pietrantoni continued to work with light...

Follow This  to watch! This piece of work is really meant to animate the history of humans and the Earth. It considers not only how we have physically effected the world, and continue to do so, but also how we perceive ourselves in relation to time and space. Our perception of our role on Earth and in the Universe as a whole plays a huge role in how we chose to interact with and effect our environment.