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Greetings From..., Casey Mae Schachner
Greetings From..., Casey Mae Schachner
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Greetings from... is a reflection of my roots in the tropical vacationland of Florida, a place for which I feel both nostalgic and conflicted. Growing up in southern tourist destinations, I was confronted daily with the extreme contrasts of living in paradise. In my artwork, I am translating the cacophony of Florida through the lens of materiality. By re-configuring commodified objects of the tourism industry, the sculptural works in this show exhibit my consideration for the paradoxical relationships that exist between materials and place. Much like the avant-garde Surrealist object, or the assemblage of found materials in provocative combinations that …
Narratives Of Place: Reasons To Look Up, Dean Justice Leeper
Narratives Of Place: Reasons To Look Up, Dean Justice Leeper
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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All Hat & No Cow, Jesse Blumenthal
All Hat & No Cow, Jesse Blumenthal
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
My thesis work, All Hat & No Cowhas been an exploration of End Stage Capitalism and Art/life in the American post-industrial Intermountain West. The research has been presented in one suite with three parts; a Sonic Ecosystem, Community Collaborative Foundry, and Mobile Blacksmithing School. Each of these activities present windows into ongoing (some career long) projects that comprise a diverse practice; different tracks on the same album. The three parts in the suite include technological progressions via the materials and process as the narrative arcs of societal “progression”. Structural welding, architectural blacksmithing, andcommercial foundry work emerged out of industrial …
Narratives Of Place: Reasons To Look Up, Dean Justice Leeper, Dean J. Leeper
Narratives Of Place: Reasons To Look Up, Dean Justice Leeper, Dean J. Leeper
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Narratives of Place: Reasons to Look Up, is and exploration and reflection of Dean Leeper's personal interaction and relationship to the landscape of Missoula Montana, while as a graduate student at the University of Montana. This paper explores his thoughts, definitions, influences, reflections and descriptions of his most recent work created for his Masters of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition. Leeper presents his work and ideas as a small part of a lager ongoing dialog of how humans understand ideas of place as they relate to finding a sense of self identity.