CURRENT EXHIBITION
Senior Thesis Exhibition
Featuring the work of Rebekah Borman and Jensen Armstrong
Show dates: April 29 – May 17, 2024
Artist's Reception:
Monday, April 29, 4:30–6:30 pm
The Senior Thesis Exhibition showcases the work of graduating Notre Dame of Maryland University students Jensen Armstrong, B.A. Art History, and Rebekah Borman, B.A. Photography. Addressing themes such as visual culture in a post-9/11 world and the influence of light on landscape photography, the Senior Thesis Exhibition represents their extraordinary development as artists and academics.
Works on view include Armstrong's art history thesis, How Visual Culture Influenced American Perceptions of The War on Terror, and Borman's exhibition of large-scale abstract landscape photographs, entitled Abstract Seasons.
About the Artists
Jensen Armstrong , B. A. Art History, is an art historian and emerging museum professional. Her research interests focus on 20th-century art history and 21st-century visual culture. Her thesis focuses on how visual culture affected American perceptions of the War on Terror, specifically looking at photos from embedded journalism and movies within a broader historical context. By utilizing these media forms as case studies, the paper works to establish how they worked effectively to reinforce the government narrative. Jensen hopes that “viewers will look critically at the media around them moving forward and how images shape the way we understand the world.”
Rebekah Borman, B. A. Photography, creates work focusing on the relationship we have with landscapes and lighting. She explores this by abstracting the forms to focus on the colors and lighting in the landscapes around us. The interest in abstraction comes from the Impressionist painters, such as Claude Monet. By replacing the rapid paint strokes with gleaming streaks of light, she introduces a new approach and outlook on landscape photography. Rebekah hopes that “the viewer will approach the artworks with an open mind on what a landscape photograph traditionally looks like.”
PAST EXHIBITIONS
LIFE ON HOLD
January 23-March 3, 2023
Featuring artworks made by women incarcerated at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, through a collaboration with NDMU students, faculty, and staff. Led and curated by Casey McKeel.
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