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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Space Between, Alexander Dixon
The Space Between, Alexander Dixon
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
The Space Between investigates the intricate relationship between perception and reality. By integrating graphic design principles with the optical qualities of glass, the exhibition creates visual distortions that challenge and redefine our understanding of the world. The pervasive use of black throughout the exhibition signifies the vectorized image, a vital element of graphic design and the technological abyss prevalent within our society. The fundamental geometric shapes, coupled with minimalist sculptural forms, employ a graphic approach to highlight visual communication's influence on perception.
Graphic design has a history of shaping public perception. The basis of graphic design is the act of …
When I Grow Up, Maria Trinidad
When I Grow Up, Maria Trinidad
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Ever since I was a kid, I have had this fear that still lingers today: the fear of being an adult. It’s my ongoing fear.
I look back to my childhood. I find comfort. I was happy and stress-free. In my childhood, I was unrestrained and enjoyed my innocence. It was my “happier times”. I did not have the worries of responsibilities and burdens. That mindset changed when I realized my father had two full time jobs. I stopped acting my age and became more independent. I didn't want to trouble my parents with school or personal issues. Now I …
Cezzartt: Building Community Through The Arts, Cesar Aguiar
Cezzartt: Building Community Through The Arts, Cesar Aguiar
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
In this project, I propose Building Community through the Arts in San Bernardino California. In the recent decade, the city of San Bernardino has lost so much of its motivation and dedication to care for the art community. The local art community has always been present, however, overseen by the lack of resources and efforts in bringing the art community back to life through events, art shows, gatherings, or awareness within the city. The purpose of this project was to educate and bring awareness to the city and its people regarding the forgotten art community in the city of San …
Extended Substance, Danielle Brensinger
Extended Substance, Danielle Brensinger
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Artist Statement:
“One of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the [viewer] in uncertainty.”
-Sigmeund Freud, “The ‘Uncanny’”
I’m interested in making people uncomfortable. Through the exploration of the uncanny, I exploit the unexpected and the psychological to embrace personal reactions. Like conversations we have with ourselves in the mirror, there’s an uncomfortable nature in looking beyond surface value. Utilizing beauty as a strategy and the laws of attraction, my work intends to entice a visual response only to be met with ambivalence. I try to establish a state of uncertain worlds, partial …
Through The Kaleidoscope, Andrea Simpson
Through The Kaleidoscope, Andrea Simpson
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Andrea Simpson, a California-based artist with a BA and MA from the California State University of San Bernardino, draws inspiration from the transformative power of psychedelics. Her artistic style merges vibrant colors, rhythmic patterns, and abstract forms, showcased across diverse mediums including ceramics, glass, and painting. Simpson's dynamic and experimental approach to art invites viewers on a mesmerizing journey that merges music, psychedelia, and contemporary art, providing a unique and immersive encounter.
100 Seconds To Midnight, Melissa Medina
100 Seconds To Midnight, Melissa Medina
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
My artistic practice focuses on the concept of mortality and investigates the human condition. Through my work, I often personify the concept of death and investigate the several forms that it may take across several cultures. The skull is most often used as a symbol of mortality, and it serves as one of the key elements in my work. I am drawn to the elements portrayed in classical memento mori paintings, and as a result, I have borrowed certain objects commonly used in these works and have paired them alongside more modern elements to create a new narrative. With this …
Black Binder, Haylie Roche
Black Binder, Haylie Roche
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
I make paintings, sculptures, and installations that explore the nature of consumption and commodity. I am interested in how it has become the center of modern culture, and how we often overindulge. My paintings explore the fetishization of "the good old days" and the limbic drive to recreate past pleasures- often remembered more blissfully than they actually were. People want to follow what feels good, and are often found engaging in detrimental activities, trying to recreate the “magic” of their first time doing so. Consumption as a vehicle for escapism is also a common theme in my practice. My sculptures …
Francisco Perez, Francisco Perez
Francisco Perez, Francisco Perez
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Masters of Fine Art work by Francisco J Perez. Artist statement, samples of work, writing requirement, Thesis exhibition, dept approval signatures. Photographer as historian
Ft-Art Foundations, Dominique Tanks
Ft-Guitar Basics, Fernando Arcos
Ft-Skilled Arts, Manuel Jimenez
White Gilt, Daniel Schmidt
White Gilt, Daniel Schmidt
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
White Gilt
This exhibition is a dissection of American masculinity and institutional oppression. The systematic mistreatment of people within certain social identity groups is supported and perpetuated by society. My work is a personal investigation of this flawed system, my place therein and its ramifications.
The fragility of masculinity provokes immeasurable violence. Whiteness can be stereotyped as a toggle switch between bland culture, and self-entitled bigotry. These works are a confrontation with the dark parts of the human psyche, and the fears surrounding vulnerability, power and sexuality.
Through discomfort we can deepen empathy and cultivate progress.
Daniel Schmidt
Selfie-Portrait, John Shield, John Shield
Selfie-Portrait, John Shield, John Shield
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
The selfie has become the currency of today; boldly stating: I was here, this is how I felt, and, most importantly, I exist.
This has become our self-reflection. Exploring the self-portrait, as have countless artists of the past, Johnny Shield uses the various selfies as reference for his sculptural works - both empty vessels and sculptural busts. Made from glass these fragile objects are all doomed to break. You, the viewer, are witnessing a truly damned object: the central portrait uneasily rests on a pedestal that is actively electrolytically corroding. While on display, this pedestal will lean more and more …
Ft-Amends Focused Creative Writing, Mark Taylor
Anthropo-Scenes, Ibel M. Sinohuiz
Anthropo-Scenes, Ibel M. Sinohuiz
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
ARTIST
My work is a melding of mythology and personal experience. Growing up in the harsh desert of the Coachella Valley, I found refuge in music and art. My desire to become a drummer has leaded me to create a persona called Baby Lamb. Baby Lamb is a symbolic representation, as well as a physical manifestation of this desire and she is slowly evolving, eventually becoming my alter ego. Currently, the artwork that I create is a chapter in the life story of Baby Lamb.
BABY LAMB
Baby Lamb's art shows have included a collection of relics that have been …
Prevail: In The Moment..., Nicole Stahl
Prevail: In The Moment..., Nicole Stahl
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
This body of work is composed of sculptural mixed media objects and scenes that heavily utilize cast glass. These pieces are physical representations of my quest to seek mental balance by focusing on what brings me happiness and comfort while still honoring mortality.
Moldmaking and repetition of process innate within casting and other aspects of this work makes me focus and revisit an idea, repetitively, like a meditation or a prayer. The intense focus required helps combat my anxiety and translates anxious energy into more positive, productive, balanced way of living.
Part of this balance requires the acknowledgment of the …
"Analemma", "Murder Below", "Of Wings & Saffron", Brandon Matsalia
"Analemma", "Murder Below", "Of Wings & Saffron", Brandon Matsalia
OSR Journal of Student Research
No abstract provided.
Defacement Of Life, Ryan Hester
Basic Printmaking, Brandon Scott
The Reconciliation Of Fatness And Beauty In Art: An Activist Manifesto, Jamie Zeffery
The Reconciliation Of Fatness And Beauty In Art: An Activist Manifesto, Jamie Zeffery
Art 525/Art History 5290 Papers
No abstract provided.
Art Foundations, Cesia Ortiz
The Hero's Journey, Alan Van Fleet
The Hero's Journey, Alan Van Fleet
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
My ongoing series of assemblages are an expression my modern mythology through the juxtaposition of esoteric symbols and my collection of beloved action figures. Though myth is founded in partial truths and allegories, it has the unique capability to speak about our relationships to one another and the universe. My artwork conceives of anime, comics, and videos games as part of our contemporary mythology.
Inspired by a fusion of pop culture and spirituality, I also draw on the magical properties attributed to flowers, gemstones and other materials to create shrines, altars, and other objects. Juxtaposing these properties, found in my …
Light Sensitive, Andrew Thompson
Light Sensitive, Andrew Thompson
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
I am an excremental artist. I do not mean an artist who works with feces or is interested in manure but one whose artwork is expelled through the results of process. As a photographer, I am not as interested in indexing a location, a person or a moment as I am dissolving the structure of photography through the manipulation of photographic materials. I typically photograph landscapes that catch my attention for a myriad of reasons. The commonality between these images is anonymity of place. Hints of location are always present but never accentuated, instead their purpose is akin to a …
Human Interaction, Timothy Hicks
Human Interaction, Timothy Hicks
Art 525/Art History 5290 Papers
No abstract provided.
Beyond The Blinds: On Power And Subversion, April N. Baca
Beyond The Blinds: On Power And Subversion, April N. Baca
Art 525/Art History 5290 Papers
No abstract provided.
Photo-Realism, Ashley Lothyan
What Is Art? Ages 5-7, Alma Porras, Lilybeth Valencia
The Artist Avengers: The Power Of Art, Marina Santana, Ashley Dee Abarca
The Artist Avengers: The Power Of Art, Marina Santana, Ashley Dee Abarca
Curricula
No abstract provided.