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Blueprints, Lauryn E. Welch May 2023

Blueprints, Lauryn E. Welch

Theses and Dissertations

“Blueprints” is an open letter on chronic illness and its shaping of the artist’s partnership and painting practice. Through the framework of a house—foyer, kitchen, library, bedroom, garden—put in relation to the body, this paper examines the vibrant matter inside, as an alliance of parts including people, objects, and spaces.


Someone Will Remember Us / I Say / Even In Another Time, Paul Anagnostopoulos May 2023

Someone Will Remember Us / I Say / Even In Another Time, Paul Anagnostopoulos

Theses and Dissertations

Paul Anagnostopoulos’s paintings and vases use mythological melodrama in a contemporary context to portray vivid images of queer life in the wake of homophobic erasure and tragic loss. “someone will remember us / I say / even in another time” traces his aggregate interests in Greco-Roman cultures and art history.


El Cuerpo Armónico (The Body Harmonic), Luis Emilio Romero Jan 2023

El Cuerpo Armónico (The Body Harmonic), Luis Emilio Romero

Theses and Dissertations

L R’s process-oriented oil paintings explore tactility within harmonious and complex structures rooted in Guatemalan and Mesoamerican weaving techniques. Employing comprehensive rituals and mindfulness through an array of delicate linearity, his works reference his ancestry through a focus on progressing color, form, and space into a liminal, light-based aura.


Emotional Landscapes, Jin Young Jeong Jan 2023

Emotional Landscapes, Jin Young Jeong

Theses and Dissertations

“Emotional Landscape” delivers a sense of gravity, openness, and breathing space through oil paintings on linen of abstracted bodily forms. The imagery in the works generates an atmosphere where one can feel rooted and anxiety-free. The paintings invite a close read of the complexities of compounded affects.