By Olivia Semsel, Arts Management Intern
Our fifth Student Response Exhibition, Outside the Box, is open, and you can come check out the unique creations of 34 students (and vote for your favorite)!
This is our next post in a series featuring the student artists who have created one or more pieces displayed in Outside the Box.
Meet our featured artist, Charlee Biddle!
Charlee is a Junior Studio Art Major with minors in Art & Architecture History and Asian American Studies, from Circleville, OH!
She came to Miami for the art program and campus size, as well as the opportunity to attend a school instate while still being a good distance from home. At Miami, Charlee is a member of the Korean American Student Association, the Asian American Association, and the Visual Arts Club. She enjoys photography, dancing, and hiking the trails on Western campus; and her favorite genre of art is portrait painting. Her dream job is to own her own art studio and sell her works.
The Student Response Exhibition asked students to think beyond physical limits with the concept of a box. For Charlee’s etching, titled Twisted Jewelry Box, she states,
“This work was inspired by the myth of Pandora’s Box as well as on the artist’s personal interest in things. In creating an image based upon a woman holding her jewelry box, it is easy to connect it to Pandora’s Box by showing creepy or terrible things emerging from the box. By showing octopus tentacles, slime, and ominous smoke escaping from a box that is being opened, one gets the feeling that they were intentionally contained and are now making their way out into a world where they don’t belong. In addition, this subverts the idea that a jewelry box should only contain beautiful things to adorn the female figure.”
Come see the exhibition and vote for your top three favorites! Voting will continue until April 6 and the exhibition celebration and awards ceremony will be held on April 9, from 7-9 p.m.
