By : Marcus Clyde
Abigail Brock
One of the senior participants in the show profile this year is Abigail Brock, an Art major at Valdosta State University, who and will be graduating with her Bachelor of Arts degree. Brock is originally from St. Simons, an island just off the coast of Georgia, fit with sandy stretches like East Beach. Throughout most of her childhood, she was fascinated with nature and art, and upon attending the university, has grown to have a passion for these two subjects. Her artwork certainly portrays her love for nature, filled with detail, an emphasis on interpretation, and unique symbolism.
Throughout the course of Brock’s art career at the university, her performance in art has improved through different areas. She has enjoyed the areas of Graphic Design and Printmaking, where her work is primarily produced in those media. As she explained, “Graphic Design and Printmaking are the two things I really enjoy doing, and they allow me the opportunity to make what I love to make”. Brock’s art style has made a rapid progression through her time at the university, progressing from painting techniques to designing and to printing. She has predominantly worked with Oil and Acrylic paint, India Ink, Drypoint, Relief, and Intaglio. These were the ways that were said to be an “expansion of her foundation”, as she said in the Artist Talk, “allowing for the chance for the anatomy of nature to be expressively seen.” Brock has produced a variety of different works that are fluid in expression and color.
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