Archive: Studio
September 2022
This was my studio at the Cleveland Institute of Art the first month of my sophomore year. I hung up a few old drawings, new drawings, loose inspiration/a “moodboard,” and a color wheel that I made for my first painting assignment. My studio looked kind of bare because it was only the start of my first year in my majors, so it took a little while to get it decorated and filled.
November 2022
This is my studio near the end of my sophomore fall semester. The work expanded a little bit, with mostly drawings on the desk wall, inspiration pictures on the back wall, and paintings on the third wall (where I could have more space to work).
This shows a lot of pieces I made for various assignments, such as two landscapes for my painting class, two portraits for a portrait painting assignment, etc.
May 2023
These are all of my paintings and drawings from my sophomore year, packed up right before I carted it to my dorm during the end-of-the-year studio clean out.
October 2023
This is a picture of my studio about halfway through the first semester of my junior year. I had the same studio space as the year before, arranged in almost the same way. However, I had a lot more work up on the wall, including both older and newer work.
The canvas I have leaning on my desk was originally a large panel I found in a dumpster that I then sanded and stretched canvas over to reuse.
April 2024
This is a picture of my junior year studio at peak capacity near the end of the school year. At this point, I barely had enough room for anything new, most of my walls filled with work and corners filled with untouched canvases.
In my junior year, I hung up a few objects I was thinking about heavily, including an old chest binder, garments from my top surgery, and old driver’s licenses. Although I wouldn’t do anything with them until my senior year, I was sitting with them and contemplating what they meant to me and would mean to be presented as art objects, displayed alongside paintings and drawings.
May 2024
This is my junior year studio once it was spackled, painted, and all cleaned out in the tradition of pre-finals studio clean-out. The only remnant of my existence there was the strip of chipped paint on the outside front of the right wall, where a peer had written my name in sharpie. However, this eventually got painted over too.
Although I still had another year, I knew I wouldn’t be in the same space next year – both mentally and physically. This symbolic and literal change was my way of coming to terms with moving on and things changing, which was also reflected in personal life events as well.
December 2024
This is my senior year studio space at the end of the fall semester. Keeping with my organizational tradition, all of my drawings, inspiration pictures, and old work was on desk-adjacent wall. Canvas, gesso, and other miscellaneous materials lived under my desk. Paintings and other work went on the back wall, along with some supplies like embroidery hoops and lead white paint that I tubed myself. Whatever paintings I was actively working on were hung on the third wall.
It was important to me to have a distinct space that felt like my own to make work in. I have to be comfortable in my environment to produce work, so filling my studio space with things I loved and wanted to look at was crucial to my overall practice.