The art and photo classes will host its annual Alumni Show on Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. in Room 201 the campus Gallery. In addition to a few featured alumni entries, the event will showcase pieces from FUHS art and photo teachers, work from this year’s students and projects that were finished last year.
Photo and art teacher Brayden Hall says he’s always interested to see the themes students choose to focus on. “ I love to see their creativity come out, so I try to let them do everything themselves,” he said.
This month’s gallery exhibit will display photography and art created by both beginning and experienced artists. Below is just a small sample of the works that will be featured on Friday.
Summer Photos
Sophomore Cadeo Scott-Schipper took this photo of a crab at sunset when he was visiting Delaware Bay. His model was very cooperative; the crab waited patiently as Cadeo adjusted his camera to just the right settings.
Senior Sailor Marenco took this photo of a deer in May at Whittier’s Rose Hills Cemetery, one of the largest and oldest cemeteries in the country. Rose Hills’s older section, created in 1914, is home to wildlife including deer, coyotes, rabbits, hawks, swallows and reptiles.
Senior Ahellenica Miranda took this photo at her aunt’s house over the summer. Shooting the image at night created the black background, then Ahellenica added a filter to highlight the flowers’ details
Senior Alyssa Corona (pictured center with mask) took this group selfie using a fisheye lens at a punk concert in Anaheim on Aug. 31. “I have a camera on me at every show and I was, like, I’ve never had a photo of me before with my friends, let me just take one.” Alyssa said she didn’t plan to wear the mask at the concert; she needed it for a different project. However, she decided to wear it because she didn’t want to carry the mask around in a backpack. She also said that choosing to wear a gas mask is ironic for her. The mask symbolizes protecting oneself from danger, but, for her, the mask represents fear. “I’m in a gas mask but I have a fear of latex and rubber masks because I feel like I’m suffocating due to the tight fit, heat and intense smell of rubber. It gives me headaches.”
Zen Doodle Collage
Art teacher Brayden Hall asked students to create themed collages using magazine cutouts. “The assignment was to draw your hand making a pose and using the line styles we learned in previous weeks to make designs called zen doodles,” Hall said. (Above left) Junior Anahi Lopez took inspiration from the movie BeetleJuice because the zen doodles reminded her of the snake’s designs from the movie. Her line work was inspired by a Cage The Elephant album. Showcasing her own personality, Anahi included cats (she recently adopted one) and her favorite color pink. (Above right) Senior Eliana McCarthy scrapped together a 80’s themed collage. “I love music from this time, so I felt like it was fun,” said Eliana, who blended vibrant photos with the vintage black and white photos for her project.
da Vinci Inspired
Art teacher Scott Hudson sparked students’ creativity by using Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man anatomy drawing as a springboard for creating their own skeleton and monster art. Senior Ken Solis is excited their Garfield piece will be featured at this week’s gallery show. Ken took inspiration from real cat anatomy and depictions from the cartoon character. “So I was just drawing Garfield but then a realistic kind of Garfield, as if he was part of the real world.” Even though it was their first time using charcoal, they are proud of the outcome of this piece.
Bell Pepper Inspiration
Art teacher Scott Hudson invites students to photograph cut bell peppers and use the photos to imagine a scene or face. The process is a bit like looking at clouds and imagining what things they look like. Sophomore Blair Cueves used eyeballs and teeth to highlight a gore motif. They wanted the eeriness of the seeds to make the viewers feel as if they were being watched.
Senior Elijah Jordan chose to focus on how an up-close bell pepper reminds him of a cave. The imagery of a cavernous chasm highlights the perception that life itself is hollow. Elijah also had an existential musing about the bell peppers as models for the project: the peppers had life, but we ripped them from their roots and cut them into slices.