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Rupture, Dionis Ortiz
Rupture, Dionis Ortiz
Theses and Dissertations
I am an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video and installation. I employ these mediums to create a coming of age story as a Dominican New Yorker, exploring masculinity, vulnerability, the supernatural, family, and religion, as well as how culture plays a role in my community and in my life.
Phantom Nation, Peter J. Hoffmeister Mr.
Phantom Nation, Peter J. Hoffmeister Mr.
Theses and Dissertations
Phantom Nation is a sculptural installation consisting of “document-objects,” sculptures created using declassified and leaked U.S. government documents as their source.
Pebbles Is A Girl That Doesn't Know Anything, Grace A. Kubilius
Pebbles Is A Girl That Doesn't Know Anything, Grace A. Kubilius
Theses and Dissertations
I am not quite sure how to be a woman. It’s complicated, contradictory and highly surveilled. I make videos, sculptures and wearable objects that attempt to rationalize my female identity. The body is a sustained fixture in my work: as an armature, as an absent actor for constructed environments, as fragment and as the literal inclusion of my image. It is through these various modes of dis/embodiment that I negotiate the complexities of gendered existence. Crumbling ceramic and paper objects, pieced fabric forms, videos, beauty products, and delicate flowers reference splintered narratives and unwieldy terrains. I consider the idea of …