{"id":1079,"date":"2020-05-01T03:46:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2020-05-05T02:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T02:50:32","slug":"overcoming-all-obstacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/2020\/05\/01\/overcoming-all-obstacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming all obstacles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by: Tony Coates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Tatyana Jackson, a senior this year at Valdosta State University,\nMajoring in Fine arts, is a Graphic Designer primarily but whose mediums can\nalso include painting. Coming from Carrollton, Georgia Jackson started her\ncreative journey in highschool but truly refined her path during college.\nJackson said that the inspiration of her art comes from experiences before and\nduring college, saying that it is an easy way to express herself and other\nemotions through her art, as well as being very inspired by family too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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On the other hand, many of Jackson’s digital work she creates for\ncommercial production, which primarily deals with the music industry. During\nJackson’s college career, she interned at TIG, Think It’s A Game Records, which\nshe plans to continue working with after college graduation. I decided to ask\nJackson about two of her pieces, including a digital illustration\n“Reasons” and a colorful painting called “Rose That Grew from\nConcrete.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Reasons”, Adobe Illustrator, 24″x 32″, 2020 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jackson’s illustration “Reasons,” are portraits of her nephews and niece who are the reasons she continues to strive for greatness not only for Jackson herself but as a leader and inspiration to show her family that success comes to people who work hard and never give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Rose That Grew from Concrete”, Acrylic on Canvas, 18″x24″, 2019 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The painting “A Rose That Grew From Concrete” is a painting that expresses personal growth through the many obstacles that have come up in Jackson’s life. The painting was a way to communicate that everything will be okay in the end though it could seem rough during the moment. I asked Jackson in more detail about the flower and the splatters meaning in the piece, and she explained how the splatter represented the adversity that she had to overcome and the anger against her that it brought. The flower is the growth through all the experiences. There is no splatter on the flower itself, which symbolizes how all the adversity and criticism never affected Jackson negatively. How the pandemic has not stopped her path, she finds a way to get past each obstacle that presents itself to her and keeps moving forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 is a year of big accomplishments for Jackson and a year that she will never forget, from graduation to being a part of a rare case pandemic. With the strong drive and motivation that she carries for herself and puts into her artwork, Jackson will be very successful on whichever path she takes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony Coates is a Bachelor of Arts student at Valdosta State University.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by: Tony Coates Tatyana Jackson, a senior this year at Valdosta State University, Majoring in Fine arts, is a Graphic Designer primarily but whose mediums can also include painting. Coming from Carrollton, Georgia Jackson started her creative journey in highschool but truly refined her path during college. Jackson said that the inspiration of her art … Continue reading Overcoming all obstacles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[131,146,106,149],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seniors2020","tag-art-criticism","tag-senior-art-exhibitions","tag-senior-show","tag-seniors-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/artcriticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}