The first view of this week’s art gallery is an entire wall collaged with process work like posters, quotes, photos, and design motifs from all three artists in the show. The three senior design art students worked collaboratively in an effort to create a fun and more approachable art show. In addition to being user friendly, the show is meant to take more work to look at and fully consume. All three artists focused on the theme of excess in individual outlooks such as consumerism excess, excess in mass production, and cultural excess.

Jamie Restivo’s show features some personal pieces, including personal environments, stereotypes, and the world and culture of Christianity. Her artwork incorporates graphic design elements to provide a skewed perspective on the world, and fits more into the fine arts category compared with the rest of the show.

“My drawings are not a statement of belief or a condemning rod; they are simply a means to express and work through my frustration in negotiating Christianity’s pollute popular culture and true belief,” said Restivo.

James Lively’s show is composed of a series of posters that came from a smaller project. The posters began by depicting “American waste and over-consumption and evolved into a highly processed, motivated exploration of narrative moving from experimental form-making toward storytelling,” said Lively.

Timothy Loo’s show is creatively focused on the excess in mass production, which pulls from imagery and text. All of his artwork incorporates screen printing and Xerox photocopying, some of which center around a hard drive design production. Loo considers his Xerox machine made entirely from cardboard boxes as the focus of his work.