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The Weight Of It All, Amythest Warrington
The Weight Of It All, Amythest Warrington
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
The impetus for this exhibition is to visualize the weight of loss and to focus attention on the need to recognize the inherent dichotomy between life’s beauty and loss. My mobile upbringing taught me that details may differ from group to group, but the core experiences of loss, empathy and belonging are a universal language that connects us. I utilize clay’s unique physical properties of malleability, recyclability and permanence once fired, to explore the dichotomy between strength and frailty associated with these universal connectors. The meticulously crafted beautiful objects draw one into serious and often taboo subjects. The work comforts …
Measured Chance, Brian R. Kluge
Measured Chance, Brian R. Kluge
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
In my practice I use clay to make enigmatic, non-representational sculptures that employ reductive geometry and archetypal forms. By pressing clay into a variety of molds, it is my intention to contrast a primal crudeness with a skilled precision in my handling of the material. I fabricate objects that range in scale from handheld to human- size. In this work, I combine references to the forms of manmade things with surfaces that allude to age and wear resulting from natural patinas that occur on stone, wood, or metal. This body of work shares qualities with the Minimalist and Earth Art …
Black, White, Brown, Aisha S. Harrison
Black, White, Brown, Aisha S. Harrison
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
BLACK, WHITE, BROWN Aisha Shani Harrison, M.F.A University of Nebraska, 2010
Adviser: Gail Kendall
I address emotions and perceptions that are complex and multifaceted. My goal is for the work to communicate these emotions in a way that makes them accessible to others. Most people have felt disconnected, longing, anticipation, relief, anger, frustration and have experienced internal conflict. While this work touches on these emotions, there is, because of who I am, a set of questions I am asking regarding racial identity.
This autobiographical work is a series of ceramic figures that are engaged with symbolic objects which together form …
Am I Here?, Carla M. Potter
Am I Here?, Carla M. Potter
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
My interest in art and figuration has its roots in a childhood where ballet classes and performing were my first love. This work is about an accumulation of experience that relates to that rich formative time in my life, so I choose a format of presenting the figure that reflects that stage of my life. I make small-scale narrative sculptures that show me at various ages with objects that are emblematic of my experiences at those times. These items, ranging from a child’s car seat to the lacy veil from First Holy Communion, additionally represent those societal institutions intended to …