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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Paintings, Stephen Smalley
Palette Series, Jake Van Wyk
Praise Dance, Marilyn Weidenaar
Aftermath, Emily Frances Miller
Aftermath, Emily Frances Miller
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
My work is an attempt to express some of the deepest emotions held within myself; truths that seem to flow straight from my unconscious to the surface through forms that are raw, powerful, ambiguous, mysterious, emotional, and pure. In my paintings, I am dealing with the aftermath of rape.
In my paintings, I combine content with complex studio processes by using the figure, limited watercolor palette, expressive mark making, and a distressed surface.
Barbara Grossman: A Survey, Wright State University Art Galleries
Barbara Grossman: A Survey, Wright State University Art Galleries
Exhibition and Program Catalogs
An exhibit held at the Wright State Art gallery featuring the artworks of Barbara Grossman. Wanting to depict the nature of everyday life, her subjects deal with people interacting with their environments. Grossman is acclaimed for her use of space, color, patterns, and expression that invoke "emotional resonance" with the viewer. The exhibit was held at Wright State University Art Gallery September 12th through October 17th. It was also shown at: Lafayette College, Washington and Lee University, and New York Studio School of Drawing and Painting.
Landescape, Dragana Crnjak
Landescape, Dragana Crnjak
Theses and Dissertations
Shape, color and line are three basic elements I use to explore the possibilities of visual language. The process in itself is important since what is left on the paper are simply records of moments from which a work is constructed. These moments are mixtures of my memory, my everyday observation, my struggles and hopes. The starting point is always in between known and unknown, and it is always a new attempt for clarity. Rather than expressing what I already understand and know, I have a need to change my working methods quite often in order to expand my own …
Narrating Friendship: The Reciprocal Relationship Between J.B. Childers And Myself, James Thomas Engelmann
Narrating Friendship: The Reciprocal Relationship Between J.B. Childers And Myself, James Thomas Engelmann
Theses and Dissertations
For the past ten months I have explored the life of a deceased artist named Joseph Barley "J.B." Childers. In the graduate catalog Gregory Volk summarizes Childers as, "an alienated Korean War Veteran, who took up painting as a refuge from his troubles, and who also doesn't exist. Childers who is naturally right-handed, painted everything left-handed because of a war wound, and so Engelmann, who is left-handed, painted with his right hand, which is quite a limitation." Of course, there's more to the story than that and the writings that follow will explain many of my reasons for pursuing this …