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Where Feet Are As Light As Feathers (A World Of Things), Katie Zickefoose
Where Feet Are As Light As Feathers (A World Of Things), Katie Zickefoose
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
Where feet are as light as feathers (a world of things) is a combination of 2D work including painting, drawing, and prints, in conjunction with a written monograph that supports and gives insight into the work. Through a series of short stories, both fictional and nonfictional, fleeting thoughts, as well as research in critical theory and art history, I make connections between my art, my process, and my own earthly living.
I Am What I Think You Think I Am, Richard Landvatter
I Am What I Think You Think I Am, Richard Landvatter
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
“I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.” - Charles Horton Cooley
I’m interested in how, as social creatures, we see and present ourselves to others. My recent work explores image and identity, how they form, and how we tailor them to meet social standards and expectations. I look at the inaccuracies that arise from seeing ourselves through the lens of other people, and the consequential manipulated presentation of the self to these very same people - “The Looking-Glass-Self”.
My imagery is inspired …
Toile, Dilenia Garcia
Toile, Dilenia Garcia
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Toile is a painting series that explores constructions of taste and the semiotics of manufactured fabrics. Through the use of irony, paradox and deconstructions of rhythm, shape, color and form, the paintings are a response to the formal and historical content in the fabric. The idyllic landscape, notions of identity, sexism and liminality are some of the themes considered in the series. The paintings in this exhibition attempt to correct and mediate outdated models of representation through the exploration of painting as a process that is open and malleable.
Transient Motel, Bryce Hammond
Transient Motel, Bryce Hammond
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
"Transient Motel" is an exhibition that investigates the interactions of people and physical environments in low-income areas of Daytona Beach, Florida. The purpose of the exhibition is to raise social awareness of low-income communities among the public through visual art. Interactions between motel guests were documented as first-hand sound recordings of conversations, interviews and other activities. These recordings are projected through speakers within a constructed life-sized replica of the motel rooms in which they were recorded. Found and appropriated furniture and fixtures from the actual rooms are arranged within the replica as objects of art to familiarize the public with …
Encounters, Judy Knowles Ford
Encounters, Judy Knowles Ford
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.