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Badlands, Meghan B. Augustine
Badlands, Meghan B. Augustine
CGU MFA Theses
Badlands is a project that invites a viewer to be present and still. It
asks a viewer for their time, and requires contemplation, introspection
and awareness.
My work is a translation of the color made on a specific place. It
investigates the marks that we leave on the physical and psychological
landscapes, and what is left behind.
There is a rhythm to this project that touches upon process and
metaphor. Process permits metaphor, and ultimately the paintings
embody their own beings. Dirt, light, space and energy. Energy never
dies. It is only recycled.
This project veils and unveils time with …
Aesthetic Survival, Adrienne Devine
Aesthetic Survival, Adrienne Devine
CGU MFA Theses
I am a mixed media artist and my creative process is guided by cultural memory, the materials I use, and the pleasure I find in the activity of making. My compulsion to make things is accompanied by a propensity for scholarship, hence, my thesis exhibition incorporates Index Obscura; a growing visual and text-based corpus of research into the history and presence of African American artists in the tapestry of American art and culture. I work with a variety of materials and techniques, and consider wide-ranging themes, connected by recurring motifs, gestures, and attributes. Abstraction creates space wherein viewers can …