{"id":53606,"date":"2012-03-23T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=53606"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:22:05","slug":"senex12-caroline-sheridan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12-caroline-sheridan\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition artist Caroline Sheridan &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53714\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/senex12-caroline-sheridan\/senex12-sheridan-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53714\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53714\" class=\"wp-image-53714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Sheridan1.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled (2012) by Caroline Sheridan '12, oil paint, acrylic paint and India ink on canvas.\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Sheridan1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Sheridan1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Sheridan1-144x107.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/SenEx12-Sheridan1-134x100.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled (2012) by Caroline Sheridan &#8217;12, oil paint, acrylic paint and India ink on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sheridan of Providence, R.I., relishes the freedom afforded by abstraction.<\/p>\n<p>Influenced by the Russian Suprematists and Constructivists, as well as by the Abstract Expressionists, she begins her paintings with a geometric &#8220;skeleton&#8221; onto which she applies ink and thinned paint by pouring and dripping, inviting randomness into her process. She then develops the image further with brushwork. &#8220;My goal is equal parts equilibrium and tension: the balance between feeling whole and feeling active,&#8221; she says.<\/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>Sheridan of Providence, R.I., relishes the freedom afforded by abstraction. Influenced by&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-53606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53606","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=53606"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119080,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53606\/revisions\/119080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}