Yoel Lopez’s digital artwork “Perigee” depicts a large cartoonish moon with a wide grin hanging over a Chicago-like city. “it was really hard trying to get everything to look right,” Lopez said. “I was experimenting with colors and lighting because most of my stuff is usually flat. Most of the difficulty came from trying to both learn and make it look good by the deadline. But in the end, I think it came out fine. At least in terms of practice. I learned from it.”
The piece was one of many displayed at the AP Art Show, which was held on May 16 after school in the Art Gallery, Room 147. Teachers, parents, and students alike all came together to view art students’ last piece of work for Lane. AP 2D art with things such as photography were held on the right half of the room and paintings/drawings were on the left.
“Perigee” was submitted both for Lopez’s AP Drawing final as well as for his portfolio, and it was also displayed in the All City Art Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago earlier this year.
Artist Emily Diel’s favorite piece was “Unbound” due to the difficulty of it. “It took me a month because I kept messing up the swirl, and then I had to go over it with pens,” Diel said. The hardest part of the piece for her was getting the swirls correctly. “I had to redo this piece a couple times because I didn’t like it.”
Diel’s other piece, “The Irony Of Human Isolation” shows five teenagers all sitting close but not quite next to each other looking down at their phones. She said she had got inspired to make this piece through “weird behaviors that people do and the first one I could think of was why don’t we connect with each other when we have the opportunity to.”
Roman Brice, a senior and spectator to the art show, came to support his artist friends Alex Smith and Cam Chitnis. Brice said that Smith and Chitnis had done their art pieces on architecture and natural landscapes. “They’re really cool pieces,” Brice said. “It’s a lot of light contrasts. Like there’s one that looks like it, it’s in the desert and it’s got like trees and it’s really stunning.”
Aurelio Smithavis had come to the art show for extra credit in his class but mainly to indulge himself in the many pieces displayed there by his classmates. Smithavis said that his favorite pieces were the photography ones. “I’m in Photography 1. So I can really understand the creative process and almost the vision that goes into these. I can appreciate it a lot more. So yeah, I think that’s why a lot of them are interesting to me.”
Santiago Ramirez, an artist, did 3 pieces called The Eagle, The Wolf, and The Whale with the general scene of it being the symbolism of animals and how they relate to people. Ramirez said that he found animals the easiest to draw while the hardest part was trying on a large scale he has never drawn on before. Overall Ramirez said, “I wanted to draw [an] environment that animals can be found in. Which I think is a lot more colorful and lively.”
