BFA Student Adrian Elias Prepares for Flagler College Art Show
Flagler College will be hosting its Bachelor of Fine Arts portfolio show at the end of April. This event, which will feature the artwork of this semester’s graduating BFA class, will take place at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum. The art show will be open to the public.
Adrian Elias, 23, is an artist and one of the students presenting work at this semester’s BFA show. Elias attended Flagler College for his undergraduate BA program and returned as an alumnus after being accepted into the BFA program.
“It’s a relatively small fine arts department as compared to some of the other colleges that I looked at before coming here, so it’s like a really close-knit kind of situation where you really get a chance to build a relationship with your art professors.” Elias stated.
A light table in Flagler College's Molly Wiley Art Building. Mar. 24 2017. (Photo: Mal Carney)
At the start of his artistic journey, Elias thought that he was meant to be a painter.
“When I first got here I had these romantic notions that painting, finger painting, oil painting like the old masters was the end all be all for art. I was going to be a real artist if I knew how to do that,” Elias stated.
Those dreams of being a painter did not last long. Elias began to realize that he did not have the mindset of a painter and began working on other forms of art.
“Being here I realized that there was so much more to art and that there was so much more to the history of art, especially the history of Latin art and Latin-American art and contemporary artwork that I really ended up actually really hating the type of art that I wanted to do. Like traditional academic paintings and things like that. And so now here for my BFA I came in here starting as a painter and I have not picked up a brush in two years,” Elias recalled.
Elias now works with dark colors to create inspiring works of conceptual art. Elias’ work focuses on introspection and religious imagery.
“I’d much rather do printmaking, or photography, or videos, or just something new and weird and different that I haven’t done before. And now coming here to Flagler College I think that like experimentation is more what I would like to do and conceptual artwork, things that like I really have to sit down and think about it before I get to doing it,” Elias stated.
Adrian Elias, in the Flagler College Molly Wiley Art Building, rolling up the receipt roll for his Mayan record of time project. Mar. 24 2017. (Photo: Mal Carney)
Elias goals for after graduation include attending graduate school and then becoming an art professor all while continuing to work on his own art.
“So usually for a BFA program you would have to like audition or like submit your work to get in because that one is usually based off of skill and merit so, it’s a higher degree in the arts and it usually prepares you for going to grad school,” Elias stated.
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