Collaboration has been the watchword at the School of Art during the 2006

with Shreepad Joglekar

spring semester.  For RESPONSE and a warm handshake, presented at the Art Depot Gallery in downtown Lubbock, Ian F. Thomas, MFA candidate in ceramics invited 16 graduate and undergraduate students from the School of Art and Patrick Whitfill, a doctoral student from the English Department, to “collaborate” with him on artworks for the exhibition. 

with Conor Callison

Thomas solicited an artwork from each of the included artists which he then altered and/or added-to to create a new collaborative piece.  The resulting works were at times whimsical, as in the small sculpture by Conor Callison, BFA candidate in ceramics, to which Thomas added a cardboard pop-gun

Some of the results were profoundly provocative and

with Dryden Wells

 also revealed a deeper level of collaboration.  In Thomas’s collaboration with Dryden Wells, MFA candidate in ceramics, Well’s smooth ceramic cylinder had the appearance of having become infected by some sinister virus which at maturation exploded into a brood of new viruses emerging from the expended mother cylinder.

 Artist collaborators included:  Nathan Anderson, Lauren Bolden, Conor Callison, Piotr Chizinski, Tom Gaudi, Wes Harvey, Shreepad Joglekar, Joel Kaiser, Leslie Laws, Lindsay Palmer, Jaci Ross, Rolando Shaw, Ian Shelly, Rob Ward, Dryden Wells, Jonathan Whitfill, and Patrick Whitfill.

 

with Lauren Bolden	with Nathan Anderson
with Ian Shelly	with Patrick Whitfill
with Rolando Shaw	with Wes Harvey