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For the culminating project of my four years of undergraduate study at Willamette University, I chose to paint portraits of the professors of the art and art history department. I was inspired to do this for two reasons: 1) Though my focus had been portraits for years at that point, I had only been making portraits of family members, and, with some of them, like my grandfather, I was doing so repeatedly! I needed to know before I entered into the real world whether or not I could make the likeness of someone who didn't have my family's features. 2) I had heard that the professors were wicked mean in senior seminar critiques. While that turned out to be a gross exaggeration, I knew that I wanted to involve the professors in the critique process in a new way. By painting their portraits, I made them the subject of their own evaluation, complicating the already convoluted psychology of a critique! Professor Grew's portrait is not the only painting from that series on this site. See what I made of Hess, Roger Hull, Andrea Wallace, and James Thompson as well. |
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