Crystal Queer: Fracturing The Binaries Of Matter, Creation, And Landscape, 2020 Washington University in St. Louis
Crystal Queer: Fracturing The Binaries Of Matter, Creation, And Landscape, Sarah Knight
Graduate School of Art Theses
In this thesis, I compile a series of fragments consisting an analysis of my artwork in the gendered contexts of landscape, self-identity, mythology, and philosophy. I develop my concept of a “queer mark” in my art that serves as a form of queering, a disruption of visual and conceptual cohesion. I form a picture of how our contemporary selves are influenced by our gendered understanding of the landscape through the analysis of philosophical, artistic, and mythological concepts of creation. I see my sculptures as an atlas to an alternative means of understanding identity, a queering of these historical and exclusionary …
Sobremesa: The Time Spent Savoring Food And Friendship, 2020 University of Mississippi
Sobremesa: The Time Spent Savoring Food And Friendship, Rosa V. Salas Gonzalez
Honors Theses
Sobremesa is the culmination of five different ceramic sets handcrafted and uniquely made as a way to enhance the experience of eating and sharing food. This work honors the Latino and Hispanic tradition of Sobremesa, which is the time we spend sharing special moments with friends and family after eating. I explore the relevance of sharing meals as a member of a Venezuelan family and how these memories of my childhood before moving away to another country relates to the way in which I approach the creation of my functional vessel’s aesthetic and conceptual background.
The pieces that make up …
Do You Wanna Go Dancing?, 2020 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Do You Wanna Go Dancing?, Anthony Kascak
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The transdisciplinary art work within Do you wanna go dancing? unpacks the experience and perception of my interpersonal relationships, as well as the role that touch and introspection has in my visual arts practice and everyday life. I am interested in pairing the act of looking with the sensation of touching through specific installation and arrangement of intimate imagery, ceramic fragments and frames, and manual or digitally fabricated surfaces. The negotiation of these installations orient the viewer to consider their positionality within space, as well as the extent in which distance, intimacy, and vulnerability fluctuate inside these psychological spaces.
The …
I Hear You Now, I See You Then, 2020 Ohio University
I Hear You Now, I See You Then, Quinn Hunter
Art + Design Masters Theses
In the research driven project I Hear You Now, I See You Then, I refer to the contemporary and historical erasure of the labor of African American women using research gathered from the southern plantation economy to create an art installation. The objects in this installation are primarily made with artificial hair integrations and utilizing labor intensive methods that are similar to those used to install the hair on the Black body. The objects I make reference the luxury items in the domestic spaces of historic plantation sites that have been re-branded to be used in the wedding /tourism industry. …
2020 Forces, 2020 Collin College
In Hindsight: Non-Visible Patch Points, 2020 Stephen F. Austin State University
In Hindsight: Non-Visible Patch Points, Erik Ordaz Lozano
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Exhibition consisting of seven ceramic vessels. I constructed these objects on the potter’s wheel by throwing and joining sections together based on a set of loose measurements and visual guidelines I have developed using slips and underglazes for mark making and soda firing for final surface treatment. This work is the result of my reflections on the concepts of form, shape, balance, time, and connection.
Baby Loved, 2020 Collin College
Me And Shadow, 2020 Collin College
Baby Loved, 2020 Collin College
Journey & Connections, 2020 Stephen F. Austin State University
Journey & Connections, Aldo Ornelas
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Journey & Connections is a series of work comprised of ceramic sculptures that explore my personal experiences in relation to the human figure, immigration, and nature, as well as experiences influenced by my continuous travels between my country of origin and the United States.
This exhibition is composed of an Installation titled “A Line on the Wall” and a series of six sculptures that resemble monoliths, strong and expressive figures of spiritual origin that represent important figures in life, sources of wisdom and stelae that connect to the earth.
Ridged Pots: A Studio Investigation, 2020 Bridgewater State University
Ridged Pots: A Studio Investigation, R. Preston Saunders
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Capacity, 2020 Claremont Colleges
Capacity, Rachel Baydian
CGU MFA Theses
This Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition by Rachel Baydian is an installation of ceramic sculptures that function as a stand-in for the human body, touching on relationship, interconnectivity, and imperfection. Using abstracted forms that derive from the earth, these art objects are sculpted to mimic nature and its processes. The work highlights our human connection to nature as integrative and vital. Through experience and tactility, there is more of an awareness of space and heightened senses. The work taps into the awe and seduction of the mystery of nature through seemingly ordinary elements of the physical world.
An Open Bag, 2020 CUNY Hunter College
An Open Bag, Matilde Benmayor
Theses and Dissertations
What do we take with us? How much space should we leave in the bag for what we might find? This paper is a journey from under the rug and onto the pavement. Sowing spiderweb maps I try to make a new city my own.
Untitled, 2020 Morehead State University
Untitled, Unknown
Morehead State University Art Collection
An untitled, undated sculpture of the Moon upon a metal post. The artist is unknown. The photo was taken facing east.
Untitled, 2020 Morehead State University
Untitled, Unknown
Morehead State University Art Collection
An undated fountain that contains a sculpture above it. It has sculpted hands resting inside an oval-shaped metal structure.
Untitled, 2020 Morehead State University
Untitled, Unknown
Morehead State University Art Collection
An undated, untitled large bronze sculpture of the Earth.
Untitled, 2020 Morehead State University
Untitled, Unknown
Morehead State University Art Collection
A large steel structure that sits outside of the Lloyd Cassity Building.
Untitled, 2020 Morehead State University
Untitled, Christine Barker
Morehead State University Art Collection
An untitled, undated painting of Daniel Boone leading his crew to an overlook with an impressive view. This was painted by Christine Barker.
Freedom, 2020 Morehead State University
Freedom, Laran Ghiglieri
Morehead State University Art Collection
A bronze sculpture of an eagle with its wings outstretched perched upon a rock that is draped in an United States flag. This was created by renowned artist Laran Ghiglieri.
White Hall, 2020 Morehead State University
White Hall, Unknown
Morehead State University Art Collection
An undated print of a large building titled "White Hall". The artist is unknown.