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Reboot, Nick Lejeune
Reboot, Nick Lejeune
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
I am an artist that works with technologically obsolete materials in order to elevate them to have purely aesthetic, sublime qualities. Creating my art this way has led me to profile and understand hoarders; those who collect materials that are otherwise socially useless. They collect these objects to the point where the collection act becomes an obsessive psychological disorder. This thesis will prove that while I identify with those who struggle with this disorder, my own collection tendencies lend themselves to being more related to the processes of contemporary artists and their need to reconfigure the original use of objects …
Immediacy And Gesture, Aaron Anslow
Immediacy And Gesture, Aaron Anslow
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
The concepts of immediacy and gesture are described in this thesis and their relation to my ceramic work. This thesis also discusses the historic and contemporary influences that contribute to my work, as well as my personal history, travel, and technical research into different clay bodies, slips, glazes, and firings.
Controlled Substance, Ron Hollingshead
Controlled Substance, Ron Hollingshead
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
My MFA thesis and supporting exhibition will highlight sculptural work I have created that deals directly or indirectly with circumstances surrounding personal health problems. A recent L4-5 micro-discectomy and the following complications have given much inspiration for my art making. I use this personal narrative as a jumping-off point to create object-based artwork that brings up larger, more universal themes, such as body, disability, pain, and pharmaceutical use. I will explain how the creation of artwork about the process of healing brought with it its own catharsis.
(In)Significant Objects, Kurt A. Teeter
(In)Significant Objects, Kurt A. Teeter
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This thesis describes my MFA Thesis Exhibition: (In)Significant Objects, which was on display at the Paul Mesaros Gallery at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center from November 29 to December 11, 2010. The exhibition included twenty-one large-scale ceramic storage jars and this written thesis explains why I, as an artist/craftsman, still find significance in these objects. By basing my vessels on ancient Greek amphoras, I am indicating that these forms, though heavy and obsolete by contemporary American standards, still have a role as decorative objects expressing vitality, idealism, and active discovery.
Con[Text], Virginia D. Millard
Con[Text], Virginia D. Millard
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
My work explores the relationship of text and image to the creation and perception of our roles in the world, principally from a feminist point of view. I examine the influence of symbols and labels, both imposed and carefully chosen, on the identity women present to the world and ourselves. Through photography and design, I reflect on the roles I fill in my own life as an artist, wife, mother, and daughter and the symbols and words associated with such roles in the hope of revealing a larger truth about communication and relationships through words and images.