The Lamson Library and Learning Commons is pleased to welcome the artwork of students in Michael Heffernan’s Spring 2008 class in Painting II. The instructor described the resulting artwork:

“These are works of the Spring 2008 Painting II class which focused on the figure. They are an attempt at having an awareness of the complexities of the human head and each individual’s response to a head (if such a thing as a human head exists or such a thing as an individual exists).

…….The more we look at the head the more we see there is no head in-and-of-itself. The head doesn’t look like anything. So we paint not what it looks like but how it looks. Then we find out that “how” it looks depends on the “how” of everything around it. So we are looking at the “how” of “not heads”.

…..Each head painting is really a compression of continuous experience. So there was no head to paint. There was also no individual experience of a head to paint. Each artist painted from within the maelstrom of the totality of experience.”

The artwork will be on display until November 17th.