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As The Sun Yellows The Green Of The Maple Tree, Adam Fulwiler

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

As the Sun Yellows the Green of the Maple Tree is a body of paintings investigating communication, improvisation, play, and painting’s capacity for transformation.

Reflecting on my childhood spent with my brother, Austin, who experiences sensory differences due to autism, I establish a painted space that is both forcibly disjointed and meaningfully connected, invoking the uncertainty and complexity of perception and communication. Through chromatic nuance, physicality, representational ambiguity, and visual tempo, I invite the viewer into the act of slow looking—to encounter each work as a living, breathing, individual entity.

In the studio, I invent rules and aleatoric devices, mimicking …

Over Certain Undecidedness These Heartstring Intimations, Martha Hemingway

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

over certain undecidedness these heartstring intimations is the culmination of a two-year-long abstracted cycle of textured conversation, internal eye contact, and endless playlist-making. Hemingway’s work is based in process-oriented reflections on habitual behavior, manifestation of sentiment, and sense of self. Her paintings draw inspiration from the ways in which we approach and avoid our internal and external routines – how degrees of our subconscious considerations affect how we extend ourselves to others. Individual auditory preferences of different colliding souls have carved a space for her in a language of empathetic abstraction – attempting to elaborate the curious beauty and pain …

Painting Down, Claire Stankus

MFA Statements

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A Shift In Silence, Bailey Idom

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Shift in Silence is a body of work that emerged because of a key shift in my life. Using the formal components of line, shape, and value, I create a space representing an intimate moment in time. Physically, the medium can be any material, but I process all of this as an expression of line. Each piece shares the commonality of lines and lineage, while the layering embodies the record of my relationships from the past that directly affect the present. The abstraction and unpredictability within my own relationships require openness and vulnerability. This honest dialogue sustains and informs …

James Kao Interview, Alice Haller

Asian American Art Oral History Project

Artist Bio: James Kao was born and raised in Houston, Texas. After studying philosophy and focusing on the texts of Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Chicago, he worked as a bakery buyer for a specialty foods retail chain in Southern California. In 2001, James forwent his corporate career and returned to Chicago to take classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he received an MFA from the Painting and Drawing Department. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Aurora University in Aurora, IL, and is co-founder and co-director of 4^th Ward Project Space in …

Indefinability2013c.E., Clayton T. Ehman

CGU MFA Theses

I am a multidisciplinary artist; because I am committed to art that engages a broad array of subjects and ideas. This is reflected in my works which consist of diverse mediums and processes including graphic design, digital imagery, printmaking, painting, sculpting, poetry, song composition, clothing, website design, drawing, video, lighting, installation art, abstract art, Op art, conceptual art, political art, black light art, maximalist art, and various combinations of these.

Transcendent Materiality, Lauren E. Mabry

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I make painterly, abstract, ceramic objects. My obsession with surface and materiality compels me to investigate the relationship between images and objects through the inherent qualities of ceramic material. Primarily my work communicates directly, through its formal and aesthetic qualities, but it may also be understood in relationship to abstract painting, minimal work, and process art. I exploit the intrinsic qualities of ceramic material producing works that are warm, seductive, and surprising. Ultimately, my work is a synthesis of intuitive, expressive surfaces and elemental forms.

In this body of work there are two main forms: cylinders and curved planes- as …

The Patrimony Corrupted: Artwork Concerning The Reconsideration Of The Role Of Men, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features of work from an exhibition of male artists including Scott Anderson, Joseph Dal Pra, Jed Jackson, and more. The Patrimony Corrupted exhibition was held at Wright State University Art Galleries from January 5 through 31, 1999.

Roberley Bell The Site Of Memory, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features exhibition of work by Roberley Bell. The Site of Memory was held at the University Art Galleries, Wright State University from January 2 through 28, 1996.

Women's Rites Of Passage: Telling The Story, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features work from an exhibition of female artists Kathleen Browne, Robin Taffler, Gail Rebhan, and more. The Women's Rite of Passage exhibition was held at Wright State University Art Galleries from April 4 through May 14, 1995.

Science/Technology/Abstraction: Art At The End Of The Decade, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

Science and technology are two dominant art themes that have been weaving their way through the 1980s. This show makes that point very strongly, but in doing so it does not I intend to show every work of art that has used scientific or technological subject matter, or has been hooked up to an electric outlet during this I decade. That would be both I indiscriminate and unrewarding. What this exhibition does set out to do is give enough breadth of focus to the subject to make it understandable that many artists in the past few years have been using …

Prints From Presses, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features a selection of works from an exhibition that featured Willem de Kooning, Wayne Thiebaud, Mark Lere, Chuck Close, and more. The exhibition was held at University Art Galleries, Wright State University, from September 21 through October 25, 1987.

Triad: Sculpture Projects Doyle/Gourfain/Leicester, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The project documented in this catalog were first conceived in early 1978 by Ed Levine, then chairman of the Department of Art and Art History at Wright State University, and Betty Collings, then director of the University Gallery at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Both institutions had, for five years, been sponsoring a variety of exhibitions and experimental projects that probed various aspects of contemporary art. The similarity of goals between the two institutions made this collaborative effort possible.

Each of the three artists visited Dayton and Columbus in the spring of 1979 to survey possible contexts for his …

4 Artist/ 16 Projects, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

Throughout the year of 1978 through 1979, came the collaborative project of four universities with 4 artists. The artists included in these workshop/exhibits were: Julia Heyward, John Mason, Mary Miss, and Elyn Zimmerman. This exhibit book documents the 16 projects undertaken by these selected artists. Funded partially by the National Endowment for the Arts the exhibits acted much like workshops allowing a presence of the artistic students to get involved and listen to the artists. The workshops covered a variety of subjects such as film, sculpture, photography, and so on. The colleges that took part in the exhibits were: California …

16 Projects/4 Artists 1977-1978, Fine Arts Gallery Inc., Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

During the spring and summer of 1975 Wright State University organized a cooperative workshop/exhibitions program with three other institutions and, in 1976, received the support of the National Endowment for the Arts. This publication represents the second such program in what is hoped will be a continuing series.

The program consisted of sending four prominent contemporary artists to each of four schools during the 1977-78 academic year. The artists selected to participate in this project were Laurie Anderson, Dennis Oppenheim, Michelle Stuart, and William Wegman, each of whom works in diverse media and materials, and all of whom represent a …

16 Projects / 4 Artists, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

During the spring and summer of 1975 Wright State University organized a cooperative workshop/exhibitions program with three other schools and, in 1976, received the support of the National Endowment for the Arts. The program consisted of sending four prominent contemporary artists to the four colleges and universities during the 1976-1977 academic year. The artists selected to participate in the program were Siah Armajani of Minneapolis, Larry Bell of Taos, Lloyd Hamrol of Santa Monica, and Pat Steir of New York, each of whom works in diverse media and materials, and all of whom represent a range of artistic and aesthetic …

Accumulated Vision: Extended Boundaries, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The aim of this publication is to re-create, as closely as possible the experience that the visitor to the gallery may have encountered. The primary difference between the experiences of the gallery visitor and the reader of this book lies in the nature of the clues. Since the actual exhibition, in all its physical dimensions, cannot be presented here, additional data, such as artist's notes and drawings, are included. An integration and recognition of our conceptual, perceptual and projective process capabilities is required here as in the gallery. The work catalogued here is more difficult to engage in a comprehensive …

Stephen Antonakos: Room For Wright State, Wright State University Art Gallery

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The guide is a visual record of the installation of an environmental sculpture in the Wright State University Art Gallery. Room for Wright State was designed and built specifically for the Art Gallery by Stephen Antonakos. This document is meant to lend permanence to a temporary exhibition and to allow the reader to participate in the experience of the project from inception through completion. As an aid to the reader, the interior dimensions of the truncated cube that houses the neon (viewed from the upper gallery level) are 18' 6-5/8" x 20' 1-5/8" x 13' 6" high (565 x 610.5 …