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Sweeping The Forest Floor Of Frequencies, Maria A. Kouznetsova
Sweeping The Forest Floor Of Frequencies, Maria A. Kouznetsova
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
sweeping the forest floor of frequencies is a Master of Fine Art thesis project comprised of the dossier and the exhibition presented at the Artlab Gallery July 27 - August 11, 2023. My writing and multidisciplinary work foreground sonic, visual, and imperceptible signals as search modes for grounding and interconnectedness. The Comprehensive Artist Statement is the first chapter of the dossier and focuses on drawing, listening, and exploring forms of language as three dominant modes of my practice that reflect my fragmented life between three countries. In its form, the writing embraces fragmentation and iterative growth through refragmentation, drawing on …
Soy Nadie ( I'M Nobody ), Jenny V. Castañon
Soy Nadie ( I'M Nobody ), Jenny V. Castañon
Theses and Dissertations
In my past paintings, I tried to figure out why my subjects had me empathizing with strangers. Looking back on my Mexican-American upbringing, I realized how society and my communal culture are influencing the way I think and process information. So, for this body of work, the physical fragmentation of the figure alludes to a psychological fragmentation. In this case, it is as if the figure cannot withstand the tension and is barely able to remain whole and recognizable. What remains of the person is trying to repair itself. The pressure in my mind is between the values of general …
A Chair In The Woods, Victoria Dolloff
A Chair In The Woods, Victoria Dolloff
Theses and Dissertations
Victoria Dolloff's MFA Thesis considers traces of play and perception in the development of her artwork, exploring the idea of reorientation through subtleties of the absurd. Her installation Untitled (Landscape) questions object as place and place as memory utilizing fragmentation as reconstruction.
Fragmentation Of Thought, Thomas Seay
Fragmentation Of Thought, Thomas Seay
Graduate Theses
This thesis statement expounds on my thesis exhibition, a series of four sculptures that explore the contemporary expanding field of sculpture through the fusion of non-traditional or unmonumental materials with portrait painting and collage techniques. The works are built on questions of form, and references historical art movements: Renaissance and Baroque, Cubism, and Post- Modernism. The first is present in the classical portraiture I include in the pieces; the second, in the fragmented style; the third, in the multiple narrative voices of viewers, in the use of non-traditional or unmonumental materials, and in the unexpected groupings of objects, both made …
Tangled Hair: Uncertain Fluid Identity, Niloufar Salimi
Tangled Hair: Uncertain Fluid Identity, Niloufar Salimi
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This dossier consists of three chapters. Chapter one is an extended artist statement within which I discuss a very particular notion of identity that acknowledges its fluidity and ever-shifting qualities. Further in this chapter, I address my studio practice processes and its overall development, as well as making a detailed comparison with Roni Horn’s drawings and also Mona Hatoum’s artwork. Chapter two is a documentation of selected works that I have made in the studio during my two-year candidacy at Western University. Each work is accompanied by a brief description. Chapter three is a case study on Shirin Neshat’s photography …
[Sabbatical Report], Michael Nichols
[Sabbatical Report], Michael Nichols
Sabbatical Reports
This sabbatical provided me with the time and focus to advance my art studio practice in the buon fresco painting technique. Through a variety of experimental and process-oriented studio activities, [ investigated ways in which the technique can be utilized in the contemporary painting discourse. Traditionally, this foml of painting was employed on a freshly plastered wall or ceiling in a process that is rigid and fixed. My experiments yielded results that advance the potential modes of creation and presentation of the buon fresco painting technique. [ am pleased with the quantity of the works completed and their initial reception …
A City Fragmented, Arturo Javier Lechuga
A City Fragmented, Arturo Javier Lechuga
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
A City Fragmented, is an explorartion of the city of El Paso and its various districts. Through this a fragmentation within the city is found. This fragmentation gives El Paso a unique character, one that threads each distric together which creates a connection. A City Fragmented, revolves around the themes of loss and want, which look to help find an identity for El Paso, the speaker and the poet.