A collection of visual and written ideas produced by the student artists of Western New Mexico University while working with adjunct faculty member, Tyler Bingham (Fall Semester 2016).
PurchaseI appreciate art because there is no right or wrong ways to practice it. Wheather you are a drawer or a painter, there is no set of rules you must follow, all you have to do is enjoy yourself and your craft.
Read MoreArt is interesting because it shows the artist's true personality and their actual mental state.
DetailsThe thunder is getting louder. You know you need to get to safety, but the rain starts and it's like a weight is lifted.
Read MoreIf a family or someone is in need of a home, I hope that they will be assured they will have a place to stay.
Full StoryThe vision needs to be positioned in the darkness in order to see true light.
Where you can look at a piece of paper and not only see a picture but see the importance of what is shown.
Cutting, knowing that they were once happy as the sun, but as blue as blue, their stability, loyalty, and trust is all gone.
I see art in everything I look at now. Using the dark room was probably my favorite thing....
I am genuinely interested in creating the illusion of characters moving, rather than just drawing a static image.
DetailsSilhouettes of things that bring pain, with red paint to represent a very real pain.
Read MoreThis piece is called, "HOV." This isn't just any two handed triangle, this is a tribute to my favorite rapper, Jay Z's famous hand symbol...money, power, and respect.
Full StoryNobody would ever challenge this gang for they knew they would get killed. Some say they've killed over thousands.
Details"Perspective from Above" is an image that represents the look of a tornado as if you were looking at if from the galaxy.
Read MoreI love you, that small gesture can completely change somebody's life in a matter of seconds. It can also break someone, too.
Full StoryI don't quite know why, but the sun always fascinated me...the colors and the unimaginable size and beauty.
Read MoreThe depiction of the negative side of beauty, representing how beauty can sometimes be defined by what is applied. Insinuating that it takes, numerous products, to be the ideal perception of beauty.
Full StoryOur hands represent the absolute symmetry, if they have exactly the same size. But htere they are not symmetric.
DetailsThis is the inside of my mind sometimes. It is full of different thought about family, school, friends, and especially volleyball.
Life once filled the environment surrounding this tree, but that life ended when a natural disaster wiped out the world. Now there is nothing but darkness at this place.
DetailsWalking through a small ghost town, having an eerie feeling. Always feeling like you are being watched walking through the town just to realize you are.
Read MoreDiscovering what pinhole photography is, was mind blowing to me. Taking a picture with a box, piece of metal, and light? I saw a pile of trash and thought if was worth taking a photo of.
Full StoryI learned about techniques in architecture, which before I never realized was an art.
DetailsIt is in fact the act of understanding and studying not just the paintings, drawings and other forms of art....but also the techniques and styles...
Read MoreI tried to represent on a deeper level, something you know by just looking at it, rather thinking about it.
Full StoryI am the sun. I bring life into this world every time I rise. The birds praise me, the flowers adore me, and many animals wake just to see me.
DetailsArtist are very open-minded and see further than their art, they see so deep into their art that some of the images do not stand out in the Art.
Read MorePronounce the word artist, to conjure up the image of a solitary genius. A sacred aura still attaches to the word, a sense of one in contact with the numinous. “He’s an artist,” we’ll say in tones of reverence about an actor or musician or director. “A true artist,” we’ll solemnly proclaim our favorite singer or photographer, meaning someone who appears to dwell upon a higher plane. Vision, inspiration, mysterious gifts as from above: such are some of the associations that continue to adorn the word.
Yet the notion of the artist as a solitary genius—so potent a cultural force, so determinative, still, of the way we think of creativity in general—is decades out of date. So out of date, in fact, that the model that replaced it is itself already out of date. A new paradigm is emerging, and has been since about the turn of the millennium, one that’s in the process of reshaping what artists are: how they work, train, trade, collaborate, think of themselves and are thought of—even what art is—just as the solitary-genius model did two centuries ago. The new paradigm may finally destroy the very notion of “art” as such—that sacred spiritual substance—which the older one created.
By: William Deresiewicz - Exercept from, "The Atlantic"