Week three of senior art shows in the Biola Art Gallery will feature work from four senior art students, two in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) program and two in the Bachelor of Science (BS) program.

Bachelor of Science seniors Kate Acosta and Clarissa Kenney share the gallery this week with BFA students Rebecca DiMarzio and Jennifer Johnson. Acosta’s work titled “Ch. 22: Line, Space, Text.” is a sculptural installation exploring the physicality of a book’s form in the hanging space of the gallery and Kenney’s show, “Most Brilliant Light,” is a series of photographs expressing the significance of light particles and their colorful properties.

Those who are working towards their BFA degree must complete 72 units of Major art classes and present a senior show in order to graduate. The senior show is not a requirement for those working towards their BS in Art, which needs 15 less units of art for graduation.

This week the gallery shares a wide variety of mixed media thesis shows. Look for new work from graduating art students every Monday at 6 p.m. through the end of the semester.

DiMarzio, 22, is a graphic design emphasis from Whittier. Her show, titled “Remember,” deals with the ideas of memory and place specific to her family vacations in Colorado — a place of significance for her and her family.

Q: What medium did you work in? Give us a brief description of your show.

A: Photography and design, it’s kind of like a mix. They’re prints, they’re going to be on a wall. What I did was I recorded the memories of mine and my family’s memories of our time in Colorado, then I used the text to kind of create the image. So it’s like you’re seeing the photograph through the memories and the text, if that makes any sense.

Q: Where did you draw your greatest inspiration?

A: I guess just from going to Colorado so many times. We went to Aspen; it was a road trip we would take every winter. It’s so much fun.

Q: What has the process been like for you?

A: Challenging, I’d say. Because doing graphic design is a lot different than gallery work, so kind of adjusting to that. It was just challenging, too. I don’t know, because it’s so different than graphic design, like adjusting my style of work to a gallery. That was I think the most challenging.

Q: What are you looking forward to after graduation?

A: I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to be doing yet, hopefully staying around the area, but I don’t know exactly what I’m going to be doing or where I’m going to be working yet. So I guess looking forward to finding a place to work. Something in advertising and marketing, as far as design goes, I think that would be really cool.

Q: What is your greatest ‘take away’ as a Biola art major?

A: I feel like I’ve grown so much as an artist, just thinking about my first art class until now, like I’ve grown so much in so many different ways, as far as thinking about art and critiquing it and making it and creating. I guess the whole creative process has expanded and opened up for me.

Johnson, 22, is a missionary kid from the Philippines as well as a painting emphasis. Her show, “Re/ pieced,” tells a story of brokenness and healing.

Q: What medium did you work in? Give us a brief description of your show.

A: Painting [is my emphasis], but I started taking ceramics classes my junior year at Biola and I fell in love with it. But I’m in love with painting, too, so I wanted to combine the two of them. … My show is comprised of paintings and ceramics and all the forms are based on windows from cathedrals, kind of going along with this year’s theme of sacred space, but it was more because of my love for pattern, and I started realizing that there was some really wonderful patterns in cathedral architecture, especially in windows, and I liked the idea of a window and the light that comes through it, and the colors, I like bright colors. My show is basically a show of windows.

Q: Where did you draw your greatest inspiration?

A: My greatest inspirations are from the architectural forms themselves, of the Gothic window architecture. It started that way, but I started looking at works by [Marc] Chagall, who actually did a series of stained-glass windows that are very painterly, because he’s also a painter. So I got a lot of color ideas from him and form ideas. It was interesting because stained-glass windows traditionally are meant to tell a story, but mine’s also a story, just an abstract one. So you can’t necessarily see the figures in it, or see the trees or grapes or whatever you normally see in stained-glass windows. And I kind of like it that way. But that was always interesting to me because I’m doing this form that’s supposed to be a storytelling form, and yet it’s abstract.

Q: What has the process been like for you?

A: There’s been a lot of letting go, like when my pieces started breaking and realizing it was going to be really difficult to make these without them being broken, and then finding new ideas with the brokenness and finding my concept with the brokenness. It’s been a long road, a lot of letting go, a lot of letting the work grow on its own and not trying to push it in a specific direction but just seeing where it goes. I spent all last semester experimenting and trying to figure out what I was going to do. It was a very stressful process, but I think that it’s come to a point that I really like.

Q: What was most challenging?

A: Just all the problem-solving aspects, you know, unexpected surprises, and figuring out how to make them into good surprises.

Q: What are you looking forward to after graduation?

A: Well I’m looking forward to being done. This has been a very stressful year for me. Right now my plan is to move back with my parents. They are currently in the Philippines, but they are planning to move to Texas. So we are moving to Texas. And I’ll look for jobs, hopefully teaching art. Right now I actually have a job teaching art in elementary school every Tuesday. … It’s pretty fun, so I’m looking for something like that. And then hopefully I will be able to get into grad school someday. … I’ll see where life takes me. I’d like to continue with painting or ceramics or something.

Q: What is your greatest ‘take away’ as a Biola art major?

A: I think the whole experience has been very formative for me. It took me from someone who really liked art and really liked to draw and paint because it was fun to someone who really saw life through the eyes of an artist, where I notice the beauty of cool color on a tree or I start to see the world as a painting, or something like that. It’s changed the whole way that I see life and the whole way that I live life. I think it’s started to make me see life as a work of art, and I think that’s been really beautiful and really neat for me.