Those visiting or waiting in line at the Registrar’s Office this semester can view some student-inspired creations.

The oil canvas paintings of Greg Siler and Julia Warner, both master of fine arts graduate students, will hang in the Registrar’s Office, 150 Administration Building, for the duration of the spring semester. They were first displayed on Nov. 30.

“It’s important in an office to show student work,” said Linda Stanford, registrar and assistant to the provost for curriculum and catalog. “(Siler and Warner) happened to be students that we knew had large works finished, and we wanted works that would be bold in the space. The office staff also liked them.”

Stanford was referred to Siler and Warner by faculty in the art department, and chose to request the paintings after viewing their work and speaking with her colleagues.

“Convergence,” the oil canvas by Siler, took two days to complete, with him painting six hours per day.

“(Convergence) is involved with an investigation of different modes of representation, an abstract handling of paint and figurative elements,” Siler said. “It’s trying to create an image which is not so fixed, and more closely represents the way we see things.”

Warner created “Large Fishbowl #1” in 1999, during a period of three weeks.

“I’d been working on a series of small paintings of a fishbowl, but I wanted to do a large painting, recording changes it went through with different angles,” Warner said. “It became difficult to capture all the changes, so I broke it up into small sections in order to record a large number of changes in one surface.”

In the future, both graduate and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to display their paintings and art.

Both Siler and Warner will graduate in May, and are now working toward the M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition of their paintings in March. In addition to the paintings, they must also prepare a statement for the exhibition.

“Painting is just an ongoing process,” Siler said. “It never seems to stop.”