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2 Caroline Trugman

Dakota Wayne

Spring Fashion Preview

Jennifer Fernandez

The Academy Awards

Picture: Amanda Wylie styling Lucie Eichelberger’s hair for the spring fashion shoot.Picture by Aaron Kass

Vol 1, Issue 1

Caroline Trugman

Photo by Aaron Kass

Caroline Trugman, a freshman at Purchase College, has released her first single and music video, “Butterflies” this past month. To watch this music video, go to:

http://purchmag.tumblr.com/post/18887271746/new-music-video-by-caroline-trugman-a-freshman-in

Purch Magazine is looking for writers and

editors

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Dakota Wayne

Photo by Aaron Kass

Dakota WayneWendy and I recently sat down to chat with Dakota Wayne, a freshman in the clas-sical composition program. We asked him all about his ambitions here at Purchase and what’s happening with his band, River Eater. To watch the interview, go to:

http://purchmag.tumblr.com/post/18908110948/purch-magazine-interviews-dako-ta-wayne.

Spring Fashion Preview

Stylist: Cailey RizzoHair/Makeup: Amanda WylieModels: Garrett McCann, Lucie Eichelberger, Adira SchiffAssistants: Adira Schiff, Lauren OliverPhotographed by Dior Rodriguez

Spring Fashion Preview

Stylist: Cailey Rizzo

Models: Garrett McCann, Lucie Eichelberger, Adira Schiff

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Jennifer Fernandez

Interview by Shannen CraftPhoto by Wendy Faiola

Purch Magazine sat down with senior Drawing and Painting major, Jennifer Fer-nandez, to talk about her start as an artist, her aspirations after graduation, and her senior project.

Purch Magazine (PM): When did your interest in painting begin?

Jennifer Fernandez (JF): It was definitely in the beginning of high school, but I think I became really serious about it around sophomore year and started to look into art colleges.

PM: Are you particularly interested in any other mediums besides painting and how did working in other mediums help you as an artist?

JF: I’ve done a lot of drawing and I think when I came to Purchase I really felt a stronger connection to drawing over painting, but now that’s definitely shifted. But I did take a few sculptural classes, one of them being bronze casting so that medium is something that is so permanent and concrete and that’s really different from painting which I can change a lot. I think working in [medium] that definitely helped in terms of seeing things in the round and getting a stronger idea of a structure.

PM: Did you take any anatomy classes to help you out?

JF: Yea I did. I did so much figure drawing before coming here. Actually, I would always go to a Saturday figure drawing school.

PM: Who are some artists that have inspired you?

JF: The main artist(s) I look at a lot now are Amy Stillman and Terry Winters. He has a show up right now in Chelsea. And I always look a lot at David Corn.

PM: Are they all painters?

JF: Yes, painters and drawers. Terry Winter did some print making also.

PM: How have your peers at Purchase influenced your art?

JF: We’re like a big community in the painting department, so these shared-space studios are really great because if we’re struggling with something we just pop into someone else’s studio and say, “Can you come in here and look at this for me? Give me some feedback,” or we help each other through ideas. They’re definitely a big part of the support here.

PM: So it’s really close knit?

JF: Definitely.

PM: As a senior, What are some of your aspirations after graduation?

JF: I’m definently looking into Grad schools already, but I want to take a little bit of time off. I’m trying to get into the New York area to work either as an intern or a gallery worker. In a gallery either in Brooklyn or Manhattan. (cont. page 24)

HONORING OLD HOLLYWOODPM: What are you doing for your senior project?

JF: It’s going to be a collection of paintings. I want to shoot for around fifteen to twenty paintings.

PM: Is there a theme?

JF: Yea, It started with my interest in architecture, but now that’s really spread more towards mapping and culture. So my main theme is using aerial images that I take from the internet and abstracting from them places that I’ve lived and con-sidered a home and then, from my mind, I pull memories of where my parents grew up. They grew up in the Caribbean and I’m contrasting how I’ve grown up with the way they grew up.

PM: What are some of your accomplishments?

JF: Here at purchase? I’ve been published in the Submission a few times. I’ve done the peer-advising Program with Chris for freshman seminar. I’ve TA-ed Painting I. I actually won the campus’ public art competition, so I got paid to make a piece for the hub. It get displayed for a year.

PM: Is yours one of the ones that’s hanging?

JF: Yeah its one that’s hanging, it’s the second one in from the right. I’ve also been on deans list, I don’t know if that’s an ac-complishment *laughs*, every semester I’ve been here and I’ve also studio monitored, I don’t think that an accomplishment though, as much as its just related experience.

PM: Has it been difficult balancing art with your job, other school work and social life?

JF: It’s a challenge, more so this semester. I’ve always worked while doing art here. I work between twenty and 30 hours a week. I have an intership this semester also. So its definently about being focused.

PM: Where’s your internship?

JF: I’m interning at the Passage Gallery right across from the Performing Arts Center.

PM: What are some struggles you have had with your artwork and how do you overcome them?

JF: It’s always a struggle being in critique and feeling like your work- four years here, you’ve learned so much from your teachers, all your classes, and feeling like your work isn’t the strongest body of work, which is a little unrealistic to hope for by senior year because this is an ongoing thing for the rest of my life. But it’s a challenge in terms of constantly thinking, ‘How am I going to change this to make it more clear to a viewer, to make it more interesting to a viewer in terms of paint and image?’I think those are my biggest struggles.

PM: What is the most important advice you could give to freshman art majors?

JF: Stay extremely focused. You have to budget your time really wisely. Use all the resources that we have on campus, that I don’t think freshman even know about until senior year. Live in the library we have so many art books bring them, you can take them out for almost the whole semester and keep them in your studio for inspiration. You can use equipment from the services we have on campus if you want better cameras to shoot your work, document your work, I think is really impor-tant. Definitely starting to build a community from freshman year.

Transcribed by Wendy Faiola

HONORING OLD HOLLYWOODTHE 84TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS

While many Americans anxiously awaited the NFL’s Super Bowl Sunday, movie fanatics were counting down the days, hours, and, minutes to Hollywood’s biggest event of the year, The Academy Awards. On Sunday February 26, the 84th annual Academy Awards show was broadcasted live at 8:30 p.m. eastern time, as the ever so funny Hollywood icon Billy Crystal hosted for the ninth time. After last year’s show, hosted by actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway, received less than satisfactory reviews, having Crystal return stirred up excitement amongst viewers of all ages, new and old to the celebratory event. For the non-movie buffs on the other hand, the Oscars is just another long drawn out and boring award show, es-pecially when it comes to the more technical categories such as “Best Achievement in Film Editing”. But no matter how insignificant one believes the world of film to be, there are five awards that capture public attention. Best performance by an actor/actress in a supporting role, lead roles, and best motion picture of the year. Actor Christopher Plummer, most recognized for his role as Captain Von Trapp in “Sound of Music” (1965) won his very deserving and long awaited first Oscar for his supporting role in “Beginners” (2011). At age 83, Plummer became the oldest actor to win an Academy Award. To poke fun at the fact, he jokingly said to his Oscar trophy when received , “you’re only two years older than me, darling.” First time nominee Octavia Spencer walked away overwhelmed with excitement because of her win for her per-formance in a supporting role in the summer hit film “The Help” (2011), based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett. The same excitement could not be shared by Spencer’s co-star Viola Davis, who lost the win for Best Actress In a Lead Role to now three time Oscar winner Meryl Streep for her mind-blowing performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011). “Oh, thank you. Oui. I love your country!” These were the words shouted by Jean Dujardin as he became the first Frenchman to win the Academy Award for Best Performance by an actor in a lead role, for his performance in the silent film “The Artist” (2011). “The Artist,” which took home the most anticipated award, Best Picture, became the first silent film to win this award since “Wings” at the first Academy Award show. This film also won five Oscars out of its ten nominations. What a coincidence that the Old Hollywood set film took home the final award of the night. With the Chapter 11 The-ater’s Old Hollywood decor honoring classic films, it all seemed to fit together nicely. Other winners of the spectacular night were “Hugo” (2011), which took home an astonishing five golden statues, “Midnight In Paris” (2011), which won best Original Screenplay by Woody Allen, and “Rango” (2011), for best Animated Feature Film. It’s astonishing to think that a silent film, as well as being in black and white, can continue to surpass the ad-vanced flicks of the current day and take away the biggest prize of the night. From the first Academy Awards in 1929 to the 84th in 2012, still “all of us are mesmerized by the magic of movies,” as Morgan Freeman initially stated at this year’s historical show!

Lindsay Wilson

Photo by Aaron Kass

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