{"id":53584,"date":"2012-03-23T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=53584"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:21:58","slug":"senex12-claire-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12-claire-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition artist Claire Banks &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53728\" style=\"width: 467px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/senex12-claire-banks\/senex12-banks-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53728\" class=\"wp-image-53728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Banks1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;How Deeply This&quot; (detail), 2012, paint chips, newspaper, Dura-Lar, wallpaper samples and oil on panel by Claire Banks '12.\" width=\"457\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Banks1.jpg 457w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Banks1-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Banks1-380x500.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;How Deeply This&#8221; (detail), 2012, paint chips, newspaper, Dura-Lar, wallpaper samples and oil on panel by Claire Banks &#8217;12.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Banks of Belfast, Maine, has &#8220;always been drawn to abstract art, particularly to the Minimalists, Brice Marden and Jasper Johns,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>She creates abstract images by layering paint chips, newspaper fragments, frosted Mylar, wallpaper and paint &#8220;until the piece feels finished.&#8221; Her work is about the relationships between words and images, and the emotions those relationships evoke among viewers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12\/\">Return to the 2012 Senior Exhibition main story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks of Belfast, Maine, has &#8220;always been drawn to abstract art, particularly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53584"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119065,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53584\/revisions\/119065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}