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Detritus And The Icon, Brian Madonna Jan 2022

Detritus And The Icon, Brian Madonna

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Detritus and the Icon highlights the relationship between the figure and the monument, contrasting between the gravity of earth and the lightness of the Divine. My thesis exhibition of seven paintings, comprised of thirty seven panels, brings the banal into conversation with the age old endeavor of monument building.


Dog Leading A Dog, Ariel Ld Mitchell May 2021

Dog Leading A Dog, Ariel Ld Mitchell

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This thesis analyzes the artist's relationship with paint and painting, and maps it out in a semi-chronological way. It includes fragment of memories, a breakdown of her process, and other painters she relates to.


Magic, Mystery, Illusion And Magic, Alexis Semtner Jan 2008

Magic, Mystery, Illusion And Magic, Alexis Semtner

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This document vaguely describes what happened to me and my paintings during my time spent at VCU.


Ross Caudill Mfa Sculpture 2006, Ross Steven Caudill Jan 2006

Ross Caudill Mfa Sculpture 2006, Ross Steven Caudill

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This thesis overviews my experience during graduate school making tangible,object oriented sculpture. I have been working formally to compose space in a way that develops a narrative between parts. The work is also a bridge between the fields of painting and sculpture, in terms of drawing with form and both painted and local, material color. My palette has mostly consisted of bronze casting, steel fabrication, fiberglass and epoxy resin, paint, the found object, woodworking, and mold making. This work is also conceptually based in showing the hand worked qualities of the materials, the transfer of meaning through casting, and my …