2021 Grad Show

Alina Graber

AUArts Grad Show photo

Drawing

My personal history with trauma informs my work, creating personifying factors and harrowing imagery to depict events of said trauma and the thoughts that occur during it. I delve for the most part into the realm of photoshop and photographs in order to explore and express this content, tying in the themes of trauma and consent through a wide-spread media. The use of fantasy alongside trauma subverts the reality within my works.

Raw Photograph, charcoal hands, photoshop The rawness of meat, set on a counter to be weighed or displayed in a glass case. Packaged and taken home. Prepared to satisfaction, prodded and cut to ensure the cook is just right. What more am I? Just flesh. Flesh to be moulded and prepared in just the right way. To be salivated over, stroked with gaze and hands alike. Yet no one can see; I’m more than just flesh. I am the rawness of trauma. The rawness of unhealed bruises. The rawness of pain unseen.
Twisting in the Dark Photographs, photoshop Theatre shows dazzle and delight. Bodies bouncing, dancing, trotting across a stage, lips chattering with tales of entertainment. Is the everyday so different? What is my latest motion saying to those around me? My most recent word? And my last thought? Constantly- I’m drowning in a sea of perceived YES! when all I think, all I want to say, is- No…
Draining Away Medium: Photoshop, photographs, premiere pro This is exhausting. How long have I been here? How many more hours until it’s over? Days? Months? Years…? It’s never ending. Over and over, the same old thing. The same visions swirling in my head under flashing lights, digital eyes… The same grasping motions, the same graze of nails. Am I even real? Just a shape, slipping away into the form they most desire.
Come hither, then watch me wither Medium: Photoshop, Toonboom, Premiere Pro I lie under this gaze, pretending for their pleasure. But I can’t help this feeling, of things being ripped away. I should be unfazed, unbothered with this measure. But it feels like I’m bleeding, scars forever here to stay. Anguished. Watched. What can I say? This is the way, and there’s no getting away.

DRWG 451B Works

These works have to do with body image and visual pleasure, exploring the negative impact of voyeurism on those who participate in social media and even marketable professions like modeling and photography. The works also delve into the harmful potential of the consumerism that surrounds our everyday on-line lives, alongside the damaging values society has come to perpetuated as a whole.

DRWG 451B Works AUArts Grad Show Raw together
Raw Photograph, charcoal hands, photoshop
The rawness of meat, set on a counter to be weighed or displayed in a glass case. Packaged and taken home. Prepared to satisfaction, prodded and cut to ensure the cook is just right. What more am I? Just flesh. Flesh to be moulded and prepared in just the right way. To be salivated over, stroked with gaze and hands alike. Yet no one can see; I’m more than just flesh. I am the rawness of trauma. The rawness of unhealed bruises. The rawness of pain unseen.
DRWG 451B Works AUArts Grad Show images together
Twisting in the Dark Photographs, photoshop
Theatre shows dazzle and delight. Bodies bouncing, dancing, trotting across a stage, lips chattering with tales of entertainment. Is the everyday so different? What is my latest motion saying to those around me? My most recent word? And my last thought? Constantly- I’m drowning in a sea of perceived YES! when all I think, all I want to say, is- No…
DRWG 451B Works
Draining Away Medium: Photoshop, photographs, premiere pro

This is exhausting. How long have I been here? How many more hours until it’s over? Days? Months? Years…? It’s never ending. Over and over, the same old thing. The same visions swirling in my head under flashing lights, digital eyes… The same grasping motions, the same graze of nails. Am I even real? Just a shape, slipping away into the form they most desire.
DRWG 451B Works
Come hither, then watch me wither Medium: Photoshop, Toonboom, Premiere Pro

I lie under this gaze, pretending for their pleasure. But I can’t help this feeling, of things being ripped away. I should be unfazed, unbothered with this measure. But it feels like I’m bleeding, scars forever here to stay.
Anguished.
Watched.
What can I say?
This is the way, and there’s no getting away.
Missing This video follows a young boy (my cousin was generous enough to pose as my actor) running after a poster of his missing cat, which was snatched away by the wind. Supernatural forces and horror ensue thereafter. The work is still very much in progress, but this is a working draft.

Animation

This is a stand alone animation project I have been working on since the beginning of the year (September 2020). It is still in progress, but has come a long way since it started.

Animation
Missing This video follows a young boy (my cousin was generous enough to pose as my actor) running after a poster of his missing cat, which was snatched away by the wind. Supernatural forces and horror ensue thereafter. The work is still very much in progress, but this is a working draft.
Angel-Demon Sequence Medium: Photographs, photoshop This work does not have much of a statement, but the project itself was meant as potential concept art for a sequence I wanted to animate of an angel turning into a demon. This concept then evolved away from concept art into artworks of their own over the term.
See Why In Darkness I Hide (1) Medium: Photographs, photoshop Look at your face in the mirror. I am there inside. A not so new twist of using mirrors to depict subtle but horrific imagery, shown in graphic, heavily photoshopped quality. Cliché and collaged, skewed perspectives, binary tropes. Yet nonetheless holding a relevant, harrowing story.
See Why In Darkness I Hide (2) Photographs, photoshop Look at your face in the mirror. I am there inside. A not so new twist of using mirrors to depict subtle but horrific imagery, shown in graphic, heavily photoshopped quality. Cliché and collaged, skewed perspectives, binary tropes. Yet nonetheless holding a relevant, harrowing story.
If I'm An Angel... (What Are You?) Medium: Photographs, photoshop Which one is going to resonate more? The contemporary usage of tattoos and ghostly effects? Or the twisted up, semi-archaic usage of the multi-winged, multi-sighted angelic depiction? Both? Neither? Together, apart? I’m not sure you can discern a full store without the pair of them playing off of one another.
(If I'm An Angel...) What Are You? Medium: Photographs, photoshop Which one is going to resonate more? The contemporary usage of tattoos and ghostly effects? Or the twisted up, semi-archaic usage of the multi-winged, multi-sighted angelic depiction? Both? Neither? Together, apart? I’m not sure you can discern a full store without the pair of them playing off of one another.

DRWG 415B Works

These works depict a binary display between an angelic female figure and a demonic male one. They deal with the notion of consent and agency. However, despite the binary interplay within the images themselves, they strive to challenge what the exact concept of these notions are, through the use of heavy symbolic imagery. They reside in the realm of the grotesque, gothic in a way, sliding between contemporary and archaic.

DRWG 415B Works AUArts Grad Show Angel sequence
Angel-Demon Sequence Medium: Photographs, photoshop
This work does not have much of a statement, but the project itself was meant as potential concept art for a sequence I wanted to animate of an angel turning into a demon. This concept then evolved away from concept art into artworks of their own over the term.
DRWG 415B Works AUArts Grad Show mirror together
See Why In Darkness I Hide (1) Medium: Photographs, photoshop
Look at your face in the mirror. I am there inside. A not so new twist of using mirrors to depict subtle but horrific imagery, shown in graphic, heavily photoshopped quality. Cliché and collaged, skewed perspectives, binary tropes. Yet nonetheless holding a relevant, harrowing story.
DRWG 415B Works AUArts Grad Show Blur together
See Why In Darkness I Hide (2) Photographs, photoshop
Look at your face in the mirror. I am there inside. A not so new twist of using mirrors to depict subtle but horrific imagery, shown in graphic, heavily photoshopped quality. Cliché and collaged, skewed perspectives, binary tropes. Yet nonetheless holding a relevant, harrowing story.
DRWG 415B Works AUArts Grad Show Contemporary together
If I'm An Angel... (What Are You?) Medium: Photographs, photoshop
Which one is going to resonate more? The contemporary usage of tattoos and ghostly effects? Or the twisted up, semi-archaic usage of the multi-winged, multi-sighted angelic depiction? Both? Neither? Together, apart? I’m not sure you can discern a full store without the pair of them playing off of one another.
DRWG 415B Works AUArts Grad Show Archaic together
(If I'm An Angel...) What Are You? Medium: Photographs, photoshop
Which one is going to resonate more? The contemporary usage of tattoos and ghostly effects? Or the twisted up, semi-archaic usage of the multi-winged, multi-sighted angelic depiction? Both? Neither? Together, apart? I’m not sure you can discern a full store without the pair of them playing off of one another.

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