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Title	Untitled #2
Artist	Sayre, Austin
Subject - LCSH	Art, Modern Ball State University--Students
Exhibition Date	2008
Artist Statement	"This semester at Ball State University I began my Senior Thesis in Painting titled, "Venery." Venery is a word I discovered while cross-referencing the word venison. I was researching ideas that were specifically about the painting that features a grouping of deer that are waiting to be processed. As I read into the history and etymology of venison, I found it to be a perfect fit for my series. One of the primary meanings for the word venery refers to the sport, practice, art of hunting or the chase. This series of paintings is questioning the moral dilemmas that arise between human relationships and animals. I have been around animals my whole life through hunting and farming. I have encountered them both as prey and as friends and this has helped me to understand and appreciate them. The fight I have with myself is that I am an avid hunter and have been my whole life. Recently however, I have been questioning why I hunt and kill certain animals. If I have grown this special admiration for them how can I still hunt them? Is it because it is a tradition I have been born into? Am I a hypocrite? Another thing I want to address in these paintings is how animals are treated. Are they merely just for food? Would you kill the animal if you had to clean it yourself? These issues are definitely something I want the viewer to consider in the work. When I began this series of paintings I thought about how I wanted to represent each animal. I wanted my appreciation for the animals to show through the way I painted them. I chose these five animals because they are iconic animals that humans consume. I wanted to paint the animals in a state where you questioned if they are alive or not. Do they know what is going on, and what is happening to them? I arranged each painting with three variable components: animal, color field, and bucket. The bucket is repeated in each painting as a metaphor for human dominance, control, and death. I chose the black background to isolate each subject. The gestural color behind the animals is a formal element that both helps personalize and emphasize them. The color acts as a division and creates a sense of overlapping depth, but maintains a flattened symbolic pictorial space. A few artists who have inspired me throughout this semester are Robert McCauley for his similar thoughts and ideas, Chaim Soutine for his gestural painterly techniques and color usage to emphasize the subject, Jenny Saville and her physical paintings, and Francis Bacon for his use of dark, ambiguous backgrounds and his aggressive painterly approach to questioning the human condition. I wanted my paintings main focus to be on humanities relationship with animals and nature. In particular the animals we breed, hunt, and consume for food. I wanted to challenge the viewer to put themselves into the position of these animals and question the notion of our alleged superiority. What is a better condition for humankind? To leave a mark or live in harmony? I would like to thank all the faculty that have helped me through their assistance and guidance while studying at Ball State University. Most especially Scott Anderson for helping me develop and push my ideas and techniques. To Neal Soley, Braydee Euliss, Carly Wasson, and Terry Flores for their ideas, advice, and support which was greatly appreciated."
Instructor	Anderson, Scott
Subject - TGM	Art Acrylic paintings
Time Period	2000s (2000-2009) Twenty-first century, C. E.
Medium	Acrylic on canvas
Series	Venery
Exhibition	Fall 2008 Thesis Exhibitions
Physical Dimensions	132 x 176 cm.
Media Type	Still image
Original Format	Art Color images
Digital Date	2008 (Loaded); 2010-04-13 (Metadata revised)
File Format	image/jpeg
Digitization Equipment	Nikon Coolpix 8700 Digital Camera
Collection	Ball State University Student Art Collection
Collection URL	http://libx.bsu.edu/collection.php?CISOROOT=/BSUArtists
Copyright	Copyright 2008, Ball State University and the original artist. All rights reserved.

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