The Chained Gallery,<\/a>\u00a0Framework’s in-house gallery.\u00a0<\/p>\nKevin Su Liang, sophomore studio art major, displayed his art piece titled \u201cRoom for More.\u201d\u00a0Liang said this is the first time his\u00a0artwork has been displayed in a gallery, allowing him to get involved in the art world.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s like, you know that meme with the little creature that says \u2018yippee\u2019, and it has the confetti? That\u2019s literally how it felt,\u201d Liang said.<\/p>\n
Liang used a stencil for the design, placing it\u00a0on a mesh screen and rubbing paint so that the paint went onto the clear parts of the design.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat took a total of at least 48 hours in total,\u201d Liang said. \u201cPlus, a couple of weeks drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liang\u2019s artwork combined his love for music and art by creating an image of a man playing the piano, bass, tuba and a double bass standing alone to represent all the instruments he plays.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m like, I’m here, I got my art here \u2014 people can know me now,\u201d said Liang.<\/p>\n
Sapphire Servellon, artist and curator at The Chained Gallery, has been an art curator since she started her first DIY home gallery in 2016. She has been working to curate art for the Framework Craft Coffee House for two years.<\/p>\n
Servellon said she enjoyed seeing UCF students come out and see what she called their \u201chunger\u201d to have their prints featured for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Artists and spectators view and discuss the artwork at the Framework Craft Coffee House on Friday night. For some students, this was their first time seeing their prints displayed in a gallery.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere is a little bit less stress of the format, because it is coffee shop gallery and it is more versatile to like the general public,\u201d Servellon said. \u201cThere’s a little less tension for anyone to feel like what they can show.\u201d<\/p>\n
After considering student application completion, visually analyzing the artwork and taking into account the available space,\u00a0Servellon selected nine student artists with 14 prints to showcase for the gallery.<\/p>\n
Vanessa Moran, senior graphic design major, said this was her first gallery since attending the university. She submitted a print titled \u201cHurricane Ian,\u201d which focused on using high contrasts and saturation to emphasize the dramatic before and after effects of the 2022 hurricane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cScreen printing and art in this process lets you be more hands on,\u201d Moran said. \u201cYou get to think about your artwork in a more critical sense of layers, design, texture and color overlays and the relationship between colors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Moran used the high saturation of the colors blue, red, green and yellow to represent the hurricane radars.<\/p>\n
Graduating this semester, Moran said she hopes that her designs will be intentional about having an impact on the community\u00a0after the event.<\/p>\n
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Artists and spectators observe the artwork from UCF’s screen printing course,\u00a0ART 3433C, at “the chained gallery”\u00a0in Framework Craft Coffee House on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Cassandra Joseph<\/p>\n
Lorna Galloway, a lecturer in the School of Visual Arts and Design, reached out to the gallery to coordinate an exhibition for her students. She said she wanted to give them an opportunity to build confidence and have a space to practice showcasing their art,\u00a0but also to experience rejection.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As an artist with a passion for screen printing, she said that even the students who did not get selected learned to take rejection well.<\/p>\n
She said she understands that in the art world, every \u201cyes\u201d means there were still a thousand times before that there was \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they kind of carry that confidence with them and the experience of having submitted and being kind of seen outside of an academic context and also understanding that there’s a community here that’s excited to see your work, that’s excited to share your work,\u201d Galloway said.<\/p>\n