Student Gallery
Calling all Creatives! The Alkek One Student Gallery is a place for Texas State University's students to showcase their creativity and skills. As the gallery initiative grows, we hope to see a wider array of student submissions, such as (but not limited to) two- and three-dimensional artworks, expanded media, geographic representations, videos, XR creations, research or design prototypes and mechanical creations. We select pertinent themes, often partnering with the university's Common Experience initiative, and encourage students to consider how technology intersects with that theme. We also hope to see more collaborative submissions over time, particularly collaborations that cross disciplines.
Gallery Submissions
Regular Ass People
Ethan Ramirez
Interior Design Major
"Regular Ass People" takes typical conversations that I have with my friends and presents them over the process I use for drawing their portraits in their entirety. During these socially distanced times I wanted to provide the audience with conversations they might have missed while also providing a place for majority female or Hispanic voices and faces to be heard and seen. The informal conversations and varying topics aim to connect people of different backgrounds and beliefs through the commonality of being humans with wondering and creative minds.
Sparks Flying
Michael Quinto
Manufacturing Engineering
These photos were taken in the darkness of the night and with a little spark plus momentum to back it, light spread across the whole frame. To compose these photos, I lit steel wool on fire, tied it to a rope, and spun it so that the sparks flew off in all directions; and, with a thirty-second shutter speed I was able to photograph the entire path of each spark. The dynamics of light is something every photographer tries to capture, but when it is dark, light is the only thing you can see. The future of technology is often unknown, but I urge you to find a spark of innovation and spread your light.
Structure
Erin Carle
Studio Art Painting Major
“Structure” is based on the use of microscopic photography to photograph human bone tissue. Science and art come together to create this interwoven visual, blowing up the minuscule to large proportions. The abstraction of realistic colors brings forward a cool color palette emphasizing the wonder that is the human body.
Limits
Kianna Burtle
Wildlife Biology
For many people, the year 2020 was filled with uncertainty and fear. For the women, with lives already full of limitations, it was unprecedented.
Creativity is not Linear
Margot Shields
MFA Communication Design
The path to originative outcomes is not a straight line. Embrace unexpected stops, U-turns, and all matters of divergence along the way as a natural and necessary part of the creative process. Information and inspiration could (and should) come from any direction. The circuitous path will not take you where you had aimed, it will take you someplace beyond your imagination.
Synthesis
Margot Shields
MFA Communication Design
If necessity is the mother of invention, chaos is the womb. Creative ideation is a subconscious synthesis of knowledge and skill informed by a whirling myriad of memory, emotion, experience, and desire. There is value and power in what makes you unique: Your inimitable chaos is yours alone to draw inspiration from.
A Study of Pentagrams and Pentagons
Madi Southerland
Mathematics and Studio art
This work is an exploration of logic and the illogical working in tandem by using the imagery of the pentagon and pentagram. Using my mathematics background, I played with the definition of both what it means to be a pentagon and a pentagram in a pure mathematics world and then began to twist these ideas by bringing in other areas in which these objects’ definitions change. Specifically, I began to explore the definition of a pentagram outside of my mathematical world and in the setting of witchcraft, letting my designs evolve and change, allowing them to become dynamic.
Dare to Dream
Fatema Tuz Zohra
Materials Science, Engineering and Commercialization
A girl accompanied by her puppy is looking at the snowy winter night sky through her telescope, lantern by her side. The full moon is shining bright in the sky alongside the sparkling Milkyway. At a far distance, there are snow-top mountains and only one hut in sight. The harsh winter night with snowfall depicts the harsh environment that a female goes through to fulfill her dreams, just like reaching to the stars. Despite every hurdle, she keeps going. Her faith and hopes are portrayed as the lantern by her side. Overall, the painting represents both the beauty and struggle of all women in science and engineering who dare to dream.