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There And You, Deanna Doty
There And You, Deanna Doty
Student Projects
A series of self-portraits through mundane objects and places that explore the concept of living in our ever changing contemporary world while creating formally interesting graphic images, keeping in mind how color and reoccurring motifs are represented throughout the images.
When Did I Stop Being Invincible?, Amy M. Fleming
When Did I Stop Being Invincible?, Amy M. Fleming
Student Projects
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Constructed Inhumanity, Karl P. Bibler
Constructed Inhumanity, Karl P. Bibler
Student Projects
This series is a long-term project documenting my own interaction with urban architecture. Distanced or completely separated from human scale, the physical connection with the setting is lost, allowing the work to represent my own frustrations and feelings of alienation. Throughout the life of this project, those feelings have changed. My frustration with the dehumanizing nature of capitalism drove me to photograph what I viewed as “corporate” architecture, intent on showing the viewer the frustration and alienation that I felt so strongly. Over its lifespan however, this series became an introspective exploration as much as it is a representation of …
Forbidden Fruit, Briana N. Anders
Forbidden Fruit, Briana N. Anders
Student Projects
This series of photographs explores the relationships between color and sexual desire through elaborate scenes involving fruit, people, and objects grouped together according to color theory. This work focuses on common color patterns, tones, and hues to give depth within each individual image. This series is a reinterpretation of the biblical story about the Garden of Eden and the Forbidden Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Many speculate that the Forbidden Fruit is a metaphor and euphemism for sex, which is a strong theme for my work. The ambiguity of the models provokes conversation about censorship and identity. This work …
Consequences, Brieana Myrick
Consequences, Brieana Myrick
Student Projects
Our need for convenience has drastically and permanently damaged the environment. These images explore how we as individuals produce so much waste, most of which is single use plastics and food waste. These photographs use satire and humor to provoke a conversation on how we constantly choose to support companies that have very wasteful products. If we choose not to support companies that are environmentally destructive, they will have to listen to their customers and make a product that is easier to recycle, more sustainable, more compostable or biodegradable. We say that we want to do better for the environment, …
Chromatic Reverie, Paul Zollinger
Chromatic Reverie, Paul Zollinger
Student Projects
The phenomenon of color perception is unique to every individual. Our view of color can be shaped by our mood, feelings, and memories. In Chromatic Reverie each frame is projected briefly giving a feeling of impermanence. As the slide carousel spins, we are guaranteed the same mass-produced colors over and over again. The experience of the saturated and intense colored images is a communal one. Yet, the colors and way you see them for their brief moments will be remembered by every individual differently. The color presented will always be consistent because they are manufactured in controlled environments. But human …
Iterations, Kinga Wojciaczyk
Iterations, Kinga Wojciaczyk
Student Projects
These works focus on the interconnectedness of the commonplace, the world, and the universe as a whole. Utilizing imagery originating in the natural world, photographic compositions are layered and blended through Photoshop to become optically dense abstractions. The visual energy creates an intensified sensory perception and viewing experience. Bringing forth ideas about the microcosm and macrocosm instills a contemplative process of looking, which plays on the human need to know and understand. A philosophy of interconnectivity unites the representational and abstract, fusing the two within sublime iterations of the tangible world. These pieces hone metaphysical entropy as a means to …
Fresh Out, Antoinette Viola
Fresh Out, Antoinette Viola
Student Projects
Fresh Out explores the infinite and indefinable world of femininity. Portraits, still lifes, and installation materials work together to investigate gender performance, power structures, and pleasure paradoxes. Within staged scenes of domestic arrangements and female bodies, a synchronicity between disturbance and enchantment is created. I define pleasure paradoxes in accordance to this synchronicity; an interest that both repulses, embarrasses, or disturbs you, while also excites and intrigues. When I think of these guilty pleasures, I immediately think of gender. I explore objectification, control, and sex positivity through my portraits of females; but there is a push and pull between silliness …
Load - Bearing, Elyse Sawka
Load - Bearing, Elyse Sawka
Student Projects
This body of work explores the understanding of literal and metaphoric attachments to intimate spaces I once had access to; my interest lies in memory, identity, and place. This investigation began with photographic documentation and then image deconstruction either digitally or physically. I employ the practices of photography, installation, and sculpture in a constant state of examination of space, form, and perspective. load - bearing occupies the space between familiar and foreign. Through the re-contextualization of images, intimate objects, and raw construction material, I edge closer to understanding the lasting impression of space and the way memory can eclipse experience.
The Creatures Come Out To Play, Megan Crocker
The Creatures Come Out To Play, Megan Crocker
Student Projects
Study on the real vs not real of imagination that captures the mind. To take something that seems so out of touch with reality and bring it to life in photographs.
Otherwise Uninteresting Things, Sheena R. Daugherty
Otherwise Uninteresting Things, Sheena R. Daugherty
Student Projects
These images were compiled throughout my daily life, capturing moments that drew my attention while I was doing otherwise uninteresting things. Because sometimes what surrounds us goes unrecognized. There is a failure to slow down and examine. A failure to acknowledge that the quiet moments have value. They have depth. They have purpose. Details from the three dimensional world are flattened onto the two dimensional surface, shifting both context and perception. This leaves an opening for interpretation and reflection, and an opportunity to place emphasis on what may alternatively be lost amongst the noise.
Freshly Settled, Kathleen Albano
Freshly Settled, Kathleen Albano
Student Projects
Our early 20's are full of fleeting moments. We roam in a strange, yet electric, in-‐between stage of aging. I became conscious of this myself, when I married at the age of 21. Our days grew shorter, as a youthful routine began to merge with a new domestic one. Drinking cheap beer with the regular crowd on the weekends, only to open our eyes and realize we’re back to work. Through photography, I attempt to disrupt this time that escapes me in an effort to hold on to this fast paced life.
Neglected Interiors, Linda F. Zalewski
Neglected Interiors, Linda F. Zalewski
Student Projects
The images in the series, Neglected Interiors, capture the remote interior spaces of abandoned industrial buildings. I focus on the aesthetic qualities of the room as there is wonder in the remnants and vacant structures. Anyone can view the exterior, however by entering the gated facility grounds, I can give glimpses into the industries left behind. I experience thrills by trespassing, uncovering decaying ruins in hazardous conditions. I travel through these spaces, reflecting on how they were once fully functioning and wonder about the building's former life.
Accommodating Complexities, Sean Zierer
Accommodating Complexities, Sean Zierer
Student Projects
Function, flow, and space are the inspiration for this visual study of contemporary hotel architecture. I have been investigating how these hotels welcome their guests through the use of architecture and design. Styles such as Post-Modern and Neo-Futuristic designs are part of what make these newer hotels so alluring. Using these forms of architecture, they delve into creative ways to make these buildings exciting spaces for interactions. These buildings possess a unique ability to flow between feelings of home, purpose, and escape, achieving business functionality while simultaneously upholding a vacation attitude. They tap into an ability to be more than …
Queer Space, Amy L. Shelton
Queer Space, Amy L. Shelton
Student Projects
Queer Space For this project, I photographed LGBTQIA+ young adults in their bedrooms and living spaces. My interest in these spaces stems from a desire to find places that feel like home. In my search, home does not necessarily need to be defined as the four walls in which a person lives. I would rather define "home" as a place where the subject feels safe, accepted, loved, and at peace. A "safe space" is categorized by being an environment in which a person or persons can feel confident they will not be exposed to discrimination, criticism, harassment, or any other …
Threshold Concepts As Metaphors For The Creative Process: Adapting The Framework For Information Literacy To Studio Art Classes, Larissa K. Garcia, Jessica Labatte
Threshold Concepts As Metaphors For The Creative Process: Adapting The Framework For Information Literacy To Studio Art Classes, Larissa K. Garcia, Jessica Labatte
Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications
With the revision of the ACRL information literacy standards into a metaliteracy framework, art librarians now have an opportunity to better adapt information literacy instruction for studio art students. By using the new information literacy threshold concepts as metaphors for the creative process, a Northern Illinois University art faculty member and an art librarian collaborated to help students in an advanced studio photography class recognize the importance of research and information literacy skills in the development of their artistic vision and to improve the quality of their work.
The Other's Other: Negotiating "Normativity" In Contemporary Photography From The United States, Corey Dzenko
The Other's Other: Negotiating "Normativity" In Contemporary Photography From The United States, Corey Dzenko
Art & Art History ETDs
Despite all of the recent attention paid to issues of identity in art history, mainstream ideals of normativity have yet to be fully analyzed and reclaimed as subject positions from which artistic examinations begin. As a symptom of larger culture, there often remains a lack of what sociologist Ruth Frankenberg refers to as cognizance' about the continuing role of normative ideals as they are assumed to be unmarked, or transcendent, positions. While all four of the case studies in this project visually challenge assumptions of normativity, the reception of the work and/or the artist's own descriptions negate some of the …
The Influence Of Media Displays And Image Quality Attributes For Hdr Image Reproductions, Kristen Oney
The Influence Of Media Displays And Image Quality Attributes For Hdr Image Reproductions, Kristen Oney
Theses
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography has been in existence at least since the time of Ansel Adams, with his experiments using analog film and darkroom techniques for the production of black and white prints in the 1940's (Ashbrook, 2010). This photographic method has the ability to provide a more accurate representation of a scene through a greater range of the light and dark areas captured in an image. In the mid-20th century HDR Photography it has continued to grow in popularity among those interested in photography wishing to optimize their resulting image beyond a more commonly used technique. Presently, the …
The Influence Of Media Displays And Image Quality Attributes For Hdr Image Reproductions, Kristen Oney
The Influence Of Media Displays And Image Quality Attributes For Hdr Image Reproductions, Kristen Oney
Theses
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography has been in existence at least since the time of Ansel Adams, with his experiments using analog film and darkroom techniques for the production of black and white prints in the 1940's (Ashbrook, 2010). This photographic method has the ability to provide a more accurate representation of a scene through a greater range of the light and dark areas captured in an image. In the mid-20th century HDR Photography it has continued to grow in popularity among those interested in photography wishing to optimize their resulting image beyond a more commonly used technique. Presently, the …
Lady Bits, Kristina Starr
Lady Bits, Kristina Starr
Theses
In this thesis, the focus is on issues of identity, feminism, notions of beauty, the gendered body, and performance. I created an alter ego Lily de L'Etoile based on the Jewish Mythology of Lilith, to act as the performer in this work. Through the use of photography, video and performance I explore the notion that one's identity is formed and affected by outside factors, such as the media, and pop culture. I look at how these outside factors affect one's self-perception and permeate our lives. Key artists discussed in dialog with this work are Joan Jonas, Cindy Sherman, Libby Rowe, …
Living Fossil, Ben Gilberg
Living Fossil, Ben Gilberg
Theses
Living Fossil is a series of still lifes and portraits exploring the language of photography with curiosity and play, formal vision and descriptive candor. It looks at the speculative of materiality and spectacle in image making. This series prescribes new functionality to familiar subjects, challenging a viewer's perceptions of scale, time, significance and artfulness. The photographs document improvised temporal combinations in the construction of narrative and visual puns. Depicting the ordinary in an unfamiliar way, this series looks for beauty in indeterminacy and moments of personal catharsis in the absurd.
Something Other Than I Had Planned, Kristy Carpenter
Something Other Than I Had Planned, Kristy Carpenter
Theses
Something Other Than I Had Planned is an extended portrait of my mother, exploring themes of representation, familial roles, the archive, and personal narrative. Curating existing images from our family archive as well as creating my own visual documentation, the series examines both the current life and past history of my mother in an attempt to understand her as an individual and our evolving relationship as mother and daughter. Rooted in research of historical representations and understandings of the mother figure, as well as photography's history as a tool for preserving and examining the past, I explore ideas around nostalgia, …
Imagining The Unknown, Angelina Kidd
Imagining The Unknown, Angelina Kidd
MFA in Photography and Integrated Media Theses
It is true that there is no scientific proof of life after life or of the human soul. However, I believe there is a soul and that it is energy manifested as light. Our lifetime is a mere pulse when measured against the evolution of earth. We are connected to the cosmos through the very calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood, which originated from stars that died billions of years ago. My belief is that the earthly body is separate from the soul and that our light energy returns to the cosmos. Energy will not cease …
It's Hardly Noticeable, John Keedy
It's Hardly Noticeable, John Keedy
Theses
It's Hardly Noticeable attempts to make the abstract visually tangible and prompts a reconsideration of normalcy. Based both in academic research of psychology and personal experience with pathology, my photographs explore the world of a semi- autobiographical character who negotiates living with an unspecified mental illness and its impact on his thoughts and behaviors. As constructed tableaux, they exploit the relationship between fact and fiction, reality and perception, and truth and performance. The photographs question the legitimacy of applying the term `normal' in a societal context by prompting a reconsideration of what, if anything, is normal, or at least what …
It's Hard To Be Down When You're Up, Katherine Driscoll
It's Hard To Be Down When You're Up, Katherine Driscoll
Theses
IT'S HARD TO BE DOWN WHEN YOU'RE UP. by Katherine March Driscoll BFA, Photography, NYSCC School of Art and Design at Alfred University, 2008 MFA, Imaging Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2013 In times of transition, the American dream must be evaluated in terms of a possible future rather than an impossible past. It's hard to be down when you're up pictures Rochester, NY as a model for the transition- al state of today's American cities using the color documentary style of 70's photographers like Stephen Shore. Photographs and installation cite the fragments of potential found within the urban landscape …
Within The Walls, Nina Ramadan
Within The Walls, Nina Ramadan
Theses
Within the Walls looks at the way in which nature is collected and represented within the domestic space. The images employ a quiet and introspective gaze, carefully examining our relationship to these environments. As the home expanded from a simple shelter to escape the elements into a farther removed, more complex and personalized space, we continuously found methods to stay connected to nature. The work explores this connection, as well as the relationship between written and visual language, by using photography and text gleaned from travel postcards.
736940, May Alkharafi
736940, May Alkharafi
Theses
736,940 is the number of females in Kuwait between the ages of 15 and 64 as of July 2012, the general age range that I address in my work. 736,940 is a visual exploration of the social status of Kuwaiti women in relation to tradition, religion, authority, and their physical and emotional negotiation of Kuwaiti society. The work explores the role of Kuwaiti traditions that create and maintain a lower status for Kuwaiti women. Through visualizing women's anonymity and representations of cultural authority I deconstruct the power struggle in a disconnected and unequal society. I employ various media to define, …
Already Gone, Manuel Fermin Hernandez Marquez
Already Gone, Manuel Fermin Hernandez Marquez
Theses
Already Gone is a project that explores the relationship of the photographic medium to the concepts of time and history, and the several temporal and historical layers contained within any photographic image. It is heavily influenced by photo-conceptualist practices that were introduced in the 1960s that often employed a de-skilled aesthetic, and questioned photography's intrinsic characteristics, possibilities, and limitations. Already Gone is inspired by the ideas of artistic agency in a time where the end of history and the beginning of post-history is proposed, and in the effects the demise of analog photography might have in the indexical nature of …
Caroline, Margaret Cogsdill
Caroline, Margaret Cogsdill
Theses
Caroline explores the notion of loss as an overarching theme by examining a mother's illness and its profound impact on her daughter. My work is inspired by a desire to understand my relationship with my mother, Caroline. Throughout my life I have struggled to accept her illness and its impact on me. Through photography, performance, and imaginative play I am able to initiate a new relationship with her and to explore intimacy, connection, nostalgia, and loss. Through this body of work, my mother and I enter into a world of our imagination where we collaborate as artist and mother. We …
The Age Of Consequences, Matthew Murray
The Age Of Consequences, Matthew Murray
Theses
Photography has played a major role in documenting social shifts and preserving memories of people and places beyond their death. My thesis exhibit examines the loss of places that are central to our society's identity, left as abandoned husks in our midst. By creating a memorial to our own era, and eulogizing it as a time when our own actions began to have serious and long-lasting effects, we envision these sites as signifiers of the decline of America as an empire and a grim harbinger of things yet to come. While photography of modern abandonments has been derided as `ruin …