Student Artwork at Syracuse University

At display in the Shaffer art building are large scale mixed media pieces done by graduate student Daina Mattis. Her artwork features life-size images of people interacting in various ways. I like how she chooses to fill in some parts with detailed painting, but allows other parts to remain as just sketch lines. By painting some things with greater detail, she points the viewer to what she wants them to see in her scenes. She puts a lot of detail in the facial features. Daina's pieces are uniquely constructed out of large sections of paper piled together. It makes for a really cool effect and I feel like I am given a glimpse into her creative process. Its like I stepped into her studio and found all theses sketches and paintings lying around together as she found different ways to explore the same subject.
This image is really great because it highlights the perspective of the woman on the ground. She is heavily detailed but so is the thing she is looking at, the spot where the man is holding up his foot.
Guy Carlos' photographs are very real in a laid back sort of way. He seems to know that he is merely a photographer recording the natural world around him, but the beauty is in what he chooses to capture. His photo Guy Carlo in type writer keys may be an informal self portrait. It could be a statement about himself as a writer or as a creator of sorts. He chose to put the key with the symbols "4" and "$" at the top of the pyramid above his name. Does that mean that he is ruled by money?