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City University of New York (CUNY)

Theses and Dissertations

2024

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Repeat After Me, Bonnie Morano Jan 2024

Repeat After Me, Bonnie Morano

Theses and Dissertations

Bonnie Morano’s devotional abstract oil paintings are an offering of conviction reconciled with joy. Balancing spiritual zeal with geometric space, she creates mirrored compositions filled with gravitas and play. The sacred and domestic join together in maximal harmony, examining alternative arrangements of transcendental experience.


Affectionate Facsimiles, Julio C. Williams Jan 2024

Affectionate Facsimiles, Julio C. Williams

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The paintings in Affectionate Facsimiles are journeys into the expansiveness of color and memory via the accumulation of gestural action. Sporadic freneticism is used to archive desire and time and their relationship to identity. Thin and translucent layers are built up in bursts of intensity as palimpsests of intentioned labor.


Place-Conscious Vs. Place-Bound, Julie Avetisyan Jan 2024

Place-Conscious Vs. Place-Bound, Julie Avetisyan

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Julie Avetisyan’s installation of sculptures, paintings and printmaking works are driven by an exploration of constructed identity that is not place-bound, but place-conscious. In this paper, she explores how her art practice generates world building under the context of the Armenian Diaspora – considering histories of indigeneity, migration, and assimilation.