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 last post in a series featuring the student artists who have created one or more pieces displayed in Outside the Box.
Meet our final featured artist, Alexa Marines!
Alexa is a Studio Art Major with a Minor in Art History, from Orland Park, Illinois. Growing up near Chicago was very formative in her passion for art, and she developed a love for painting and printmaking. Throughout high school and college, she has taken interest in many social issues, including those of women and the LGBT+ community, and she tries to include these topics in her work.
The Student Response Exhibition asked students to think beyond physical limits with the concept of a box. Alexa has two pieces on display in this exhibition! For Alexa’s first piece, titled Trace, she states,
“Within this piece, I explored the idea of the box through improvisational line and shape.”
For her second piece, titled Confinement, she states,
“Gender, as a construct, has always been intriguing to me. Preconceived assumptions about gender affect us in our everyday lives, whether we realize it or not. In this piece, I sought to explore the concept of the box through the restrictions and challenges caused by gender expectations. In the image, the “genderless” individual is surrounded ominously by two figures, as if being held captive by the extremes of the gender binary.”
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.
