Five More Minutes

Gallery 100 is thrilled to present "Five More Minutes," the final BFA show of 2024. This event brings together diverse artists, each with their unique approach to art and research, creating a journey of discovery. While their practices may differ, all these artists share a common thought: the need for more time. As the final BFA show of 2024, “Five More Minutes” offers a snapshot of the diversity and depth within the ASU Art BFA program, celebrating the culmination of these artists’ academic careers as they step into their professional journeys. 

Photographer Gianna Cabano's work explores how identity is influenced by our environment, the objects we engage with, and our connection to nature. Her photographs feature people in spaces that reflect who they are, whether their profession, personal interest, or emotional connections stand out as their defining characteristics. She lets the narratives unfold within each frame, drawing attention to the unique lives of her subjects. 

Sewa Eagle Hawk takes a vulnerable and revealing approach to fashion photography. Her subjects are asked to describe their style in one word. Eagle Hawk takes the photo, allowing their outer appearance to brace the world and its opinions. Her work is rooted in self-acceptance, spreading the message of choosing your own happiness and celebrating your own unique identity. 

Multidisciplinary artist Katerina Houser utilizes her experience in weaving to explore the relationship between finite and infinite possibilities through weave structures. Her work is done on a dobby loom, which allows her to adaptively reuse structures to explore curved designs. She draws inspiration from lava lamps and the dynamic tension between order and chaos, predictability and randomness. 

Xianna Montoya's dedication to the truth, soul, and humanity is the driving force in her paintings. She sources forgotten candid photos of her family to tell stories of immigration, abuse, and intergenerational relationships. Her work invites viewers to see the unabashed truth through unplanned captured moments and to leave with a deeper understanding of underlying feelings and self-sabotaging facades. 

Her art philosophy is inspired by child-like wonder and play; painter Lainey Morales creates large-scale plastic paintings to draw attention to the relationship between humans and nature. She is fascinated with biophilia, "...the scientific theory that humans have an instinctive connection to other living things, including animals and plants." Her sculptural paintings contrast humans' instinctive quality to be one with nature while destroying it. 

Ceramicist Tara O'Donnell makes homage to the places she has lived with intricate ceramic tiles. Her work is a story of her life displayed on a table that viewers are invited to dissect. Blending the past with the present, O'Donnell utilizes plastic waste to create an environment that fosters rebirth through recycled materials. 

Abby Robinson lets the viewer into their mind as they explore the world of possibility. Not limited by medium or size, Robinson creates highly detailed and colorful work, allowing their imagination to create new worlds and characters. Viewers are invited to see the method behind the madness with various sketches and first drafts before seeing the final developed masterpiece.