Campus Canvas | Gianna Constantine '15

I really, really love color. That's a pretty simplistic statement, but it encompasses my entire body of work. It's my favorite part of painting; early stages of paintings frequently last me weeks because I just want to skip over finishing the drawing and get to the beautiful part. So in that vein, I've been progressing towards freehand painting in the past few months. I work almost exclusively in acrylic paint, but I've been messing around with found objects in sculpture. My favorite objects that I've found so far are a pack of expired Polaroid film and three panels of old lace on glass.

This painting is sized about 12 in. x 18 in. and is titled "The Voyeur Pt. 2." It is part of a diptych about a person's ability to stabilize himself after outside influences have taken their toll. These particular paintings were inspired by a dream, but I don't always base my paintings off dreams.

Typically I try to leave my paintings open to interpretation. I like when people tell me what they think my paintings mean because it makes painting feel like a collaborative process. I haven't been painting much since the beginning of the new semester for lack of free time, but I look forward to further experimenting with new colors and new media in the near future.

—Gianna Constantine '15