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Stories From A Chair: A Life Exquisite, Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn
Stories From A Chair: A Life Exquisite, Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn
Art and Design Theses
Exquisite is defined as carefully selected or sought out. I believe myself to be a selected soul placed in a body of circumstance. My work is self-explorative and telling of those circumstances in hopes of evoking empathy. Our bodies function and exist on many different levels. What I understand as normal for most differs vastly from what is normal for me. I aim to offer my perspective on the world, establish understanding, and blur the lines of normalcy.
Janine Antoni: Finding A Room Of Her Own, Stacie M. Lindner
Janine Antoni: Finding A Room Of Her Own, Stacie M. Lindner
Art and Design Theses
Janine Antoni's object- and performance-based works draw from multiple influences including feminism and conceptualism, and in these works the artist has fashioned an investigation of the self through the examination of the mother/child dyad, creating a more than fourteen-year body of work about these relationships that explore the implications of feminine imagery. Antoni’s works are an effort to distinguish her body as a feminine subject-object, but also to identify with as well as separate herself from the mother. While she is a conceptual artist, Antoni puts great emphasis on materiality. For her, the concept defines itself within the materials, and …