{"id":10019,"date":"2018-12-04T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/?p=10019"},"modified":"2021-11-08T18:50:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T18:50:05","slug":"elizabeth-ihekoronye-senior-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/2018\/12\/04\/elizabeth-ihekoronye-senior-show\/","title":{"rendered":"ELIZABETH IHEKORONYE &#8211; SENIOR SHOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10020 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/12\/Elizabeth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/12\/Elizabeth.jpg 1616w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/12\/Elizabeth-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/12\/Elizabeth-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/12\/Elizabeth-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2018\/12\/Elizabeth-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/>January 28 \u2013 February 7, 2019<\/h2>\n<h3>Gallery 720, Christensen Center<\/h3>\n<h4>SENIOR SHOW<br \/>\nElizabeth Ihekoronye<\/h4>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Bio<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Elizabeth Ihekoronye is a visual artist living and working in Minnesota. She is currently completing her studio art degree at Augsburg University.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She has explored many mediums of art, but has taken a fond interest in pastel painting, and graphic design. Her work reflects her desire to expand the black imagination through personal symbolism. Across both mediums Elizabeth is able to create rich scenes that explore intrapersonal understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Artist Statement<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Constructed using pastel \u201cmediums\u201d, each painting softly pieces together the heavenly black body as it moves through other worldly experiences. This movement causes the bodies personal symbol to develop beyond the popular narrative.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Each scene is comprised from the themes of nourishment, redemption, rebellion and rebirth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My initial inspiration for creating these pieces stems from my imagination as a child. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">I often imagined scenarios that were rare to the idea of being black. I yearned to see a black body being adored by something as simple as fruit and vines. I questioned my imagination, often believing that I was not meant to be in such an amusing yet delightful situation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I would ask myself \u201chow does this relate to being black\u201d a deep brown hue constantly being dehumanized.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>My body does not always have to be dehumanized and I should not accept that vision but accept the vision of the black body being nourished and adorned by fruit and vines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"> I produce this work to challenge the limitations of the back body and the black imagination in society. My work pushes the idea of the black body as an individual symbol that is developed internally and externally through worldly and other worldly experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 28 \u2013 February 7, 2019 Gallery 720, Christensen Center SENIOR SHOW Elizabeth Ihekoronye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[250,280,281,265],"class_list":["post-10019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senior-show","tag-250","tag-elizabeth","tag-ihekoroney","tag-senior-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11654,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10019\/revisions\/11654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}