2024 Grad Show

James Kieper

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James Kieper is a visual artist skilled in a variety of mediums, from traditional drawing materials such as pencils or chalk, to less conventional forms such as digital art or photography. Important to that practice is conveyance of energy in form, the active movement of life but also the stillness of death.

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Chalk lines on collected pieces of found scrap wood. The wood has been treated with a blackboard paint giving it a blackboard feel in both texture and appearance. Streams of chalk lines streak across the boards, from physically present ones, to the phantoms of erased lines and even imaginary ones concocted by the minds eye. The scrap wood boards have then been arranged in one large collected form allowing the lines and the board pieces to interact in a slow waltz of ever intensifying complexity.

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Number 15 One of the first pieces and of a much smaller scale.
Number 18 A later piece experimenting with greater scale and new board pieces.
Number 20A A much later piece, experimenting with a different visual viewing format by placing the piece on a raised plinth.
Number 20C Another raised plinth attempt at the concept, using a larger scale. This was also experimented with as a performance piece by drawing the lines and arranging the board, and rearranging the board and redrawing the lines, in person during presentation.

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Additional pieces of the chalkboard scrap wood with line work concept.

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Number 15 One of the first pieces and of a much smaller scale.
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Number 18 A later piece experimenting with greater scale and new board pieces.
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Number 20A A much later piece, experimenting with a different visual viewing format by placing the piece on a raised plinth.
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Number 20C Another raised plinth attempt at the concept, using a larger scale. This was also experimented with as a performance piece by drawing the lines and arranging the board, and rearranging the board and redrawing the lines, in person during presentation.
Bubbles one of the first photographic works that I did in an artistic context.
Overview Later photographic work, and experimenting in more bold editing processes.
Stations A later piece that sought to more boldly experiment with colour along with more extensive visual editing processes.
Bridge A pair of images, one being in colour well the other is a greyscale image.
The Raven Visual photographic work intended to symbolize interpretation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven poem.
Envy Visual photographic work intended to symbolize interpretation of the concept of the sin of envy. It arguably better represents the sin of sloth however when divorced from personal artistic interpretation.

Photographic Works, Assorted

An assorted collection of photographic works, arranged in order of production as a timeline of photographic development process.

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Bubbles one of the first photographic works that I did in an artistic context.
Photographic Works, Assorted AUArts Grad Show mirrorglass revisions
Overview Later photographic work, and experimenting in more bold editing processes.
Photographic Works, Assorted AUArts Grad Show final client file colour
Stations A later piece that sought to more boldly experiment with colour along with more extensive visual editing processes.
Photographic Works, Assorted AUArts Grad Show black and white unified document
Bridge A pair of images, one being in colour well the other is a greyscale image.
Photographic Works, Assorted AUArts Grad Show phone raven client
The Raven Visual photographic work intended to symbolize interpretation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven poem.
Photographic Works, Assorted AUArts Grad Show seven sins envy client
Envy Visual photographic work intended to symbolize interpretation of the concept of the sin of envy. It arguably better represents the sin of sloth however when divorced from personal artistic interpretation.

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