Undergraduate Exhibition Posters
During my undergraduate classes at UW-Stout, I was a part of a series of student gallery exhibitions, and that meant somebody had to make publications to hang in the hallways and post online. It was something I usually had a hand in for the Sculpture shows.
March 2023.
This was for my BFA Thesis. I wanted to capture the liminal aspect of cars and ‘car spaces’.
I found the best analogy to be floating in a pool.
December 2021.
Every semester the UW-Stout School of Art and Design hosts an even with exhibitions in every classroom, and in 121 there’s a sculpture exhibition. I thought an overhead view of a small room attached to 121 (121c) would be an interesting way to depict the sculpture portion of the event. I wanted to also stand out in a large group of posters, so rather than design in the common bright fashion, the context these posters were placed in made the almost entirely black poster stand out.
April 2022.
For the Aesthetics course at UW-Stout, there is a summer exhibition for students taking the course. I was inspired by the DK ‘Eyewitness’ books with a large serif title and image on a white plane, with a black bar. The waves are a reference to some of the discussions in the course, and follow the utopian academic aesthetic of cross sections and multi-layered diagrams.
March 2021.
Object Dart (a play off of objet d’art) was a 24 hour duo exhibition with Kayla Spaeth. It consisted of a 24 hour livestream on twitch with in person visits in the gallery. Originally it was going to show the entire layered text, but after zooming in and seeing abstract ‘almost’ letters, it felt right. The hint of letters makes for some intrigue.
The posters were printed in a variety of colors to capture a wider spectrum of the designated poster walls’ unused colors. I tended to design darker, more saturated posters since the majority of the other posters were bright with a lot of white space.
October 2021.
A common theme in my advanced sculpture courses was vertical rods and poetry, and this was the culmination of both.
I used Blender to model some basic terrain with rods, and placed text in adobe indesign. The title comes from Dante’s Inferno, Canto 26. It has no deeper meaning, it just fit that ‘art school’ feeling that was desired.