The blog and portfolio of Kiersten Timpe

There’s a reason my posts have been (extra) infrequent lately.

While busy with animations, job applications, work and midterms, I was putting in countless hours for AAF’s National Student Advertising Competition last week. Integrated marketing communication majors at Ithaca College can enter the competition through a senior capstone course called Ad Lab. Ad Lab has a reputation of being a black hole. As soon as someone joins the class they won’t be seen for weeks at a time. Their waking hours are spent working a tiny lab in ‘The Annex,’ which is a glorified trailer. This is now my life.

During our busiest week, I got an email asking me to submit an image for IC’s senior art show catalog. Every year, the Handwerker Gallery exhibits the work of graduating seniors who study art, cinema, photography and media arts. Through my art minor I’ve taken silkscreening, 2D design, several painting courses and am currently taking computer art and animation. I had a lot of work to choose from.

In the end, I decided to submit one of my prints from computer art and animation. I know it will reproduce well and I didn’t have to worry about photographing it.

‘In and Out,’ Mixed media, 2010

When I printed this I separated the graphic elements from the hand drawn. I printed the digital image on matte paper, then printed the hand drawn figures on transparencies. I mounted the figures a half inch away from the canvas so they would hover over the image, slightly separated from their surroundings.

Now that “In and Out” has been accepted for the catalog I can submit up to 5 other pieces for the juried exhibit. For the first time I had to write an artist statement, price work – scary! I’d like to create something new for the show, but I might play it safe and submit older pieces. I’m on spring break right now so I’m digging through my high school creations for inspiration.

Have any of you had experience exhibiting work? How do you price your art, if you sell it at all? All of this is new to me so I’m curious how others do it.

Kiersten