Lunch Break at BORE INK.

Author/Artist Name

Lee BezehertnyFollow

Files

Academic Level at Time of Creation

Senior

Date of Creation

Spring 4-25-2025

Artist Statement

It's been my experience that when transitioning into adulthood, we are conditioned to desaturate ourselves to become more easily digestible for the sake of being taken seriously in corporate settings. My illustrative design work and printmaking in my BFA exhibition focus on the exploration of identity through maturity and how the societal expectations associated with age impact the ways we limit self expression and playfulness as we grow. The exhibition, titled "Lunch Break at BORE INK.," is set in the break room of my fictional office supply company, BORE INK.

I utilize illustrative storytelling, dynamic typography, and the hand-printed production of my designs to create controlled imperfections. relatability, and community with the audience through texture, line, and color. Felicia Chiao, a graphic designer and illustrator, and painter Tyler Shelton have heavily influenced my use of texture and color in my illustrative design style. The hand layered building of color in my screen prints allows for greater visual and emotional depth to the viewer.

A great example of my work that communicates how I utilize such elements is "I Can't Fucking Stand White Walls", a 30x22" screen print that depicts a white hallway with several versions of the same figure drawing in crayon on the walls and floor. The piece is composed of contrasting photographic and flat, illustrative components. The minimal, realistic walls and the loose, colorful, texture line visually communicates both my resistance to the seriousness of adulthood and the incongruence occuring between myself and the work environment I'm surrounded by.

The vending machine of BORE INK.'s break room, branded for my secondary company, Gimme Goods, was inspired by the collaborative automated galleries orchestrated by Steph Krim of Good Things Vending in Chicago, Illinois. The Gimme Goods machine, in all of its silliness, exists to provide an interactive, immersive, and playful experience for gallery guests amidst the white, neutral gallery space the break room exists within.

My BFA exhibition aims to provide an opportunity in a corporate space for others to express their inner whimsy, connect with each other, and embrace that everyone is living their lives for the first time, which allows us to find comfort in the experiences we share as we grow. In the break room I've create for you in "Lunch Break", you stick out like a sore thumb-

but isn't there something beautiful about everyone feeling that way together?

Advisor/Mentor

Nicole Hand-Bryant; Jim Bryant; Lu Colby; Mike Martin

Description

screen print, 22x30"

87 screen printed tickets, 4x6"

screen print, 14x15"

screen print, 30x22"

screen print, 8x4.5"

screen print, 11x15"

screen print, 22x30"

screen print, 22x30"

37 screen printed animation frames, 8x4.5"

screen printed poster, 19x12.5"

screen printed poster, 19x12.5"

screen printed poster, 25x19"

screen printed poster, 25x19"

screen printed poster, 25x19"

screen printed poster, 25x19"

300 screen printed post-it notes, 3x3" each

three ceramic seagull sculptures, terracotta fired with terra sigillata

Photo Credit

Photo credit by artist and Ms. Randi Midget, 2025

Recommended Citation

Bezehertny, Lee, "Lunch Break at BORE INK." (2025). B.F.A. Practicum Exhibition (ART 498). 148.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/art498/148