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Go Big Or Go Home, Concepcion M. Sanford
Go Big Or Go Home, Concepcion M. Sanford
CGU MFA Theses
My work embodies my response to the American Dream. Big houses, flashy cars and glamorous lifestyles are what many of us work for. Coming from a military family, I grew up moving often without an idealized connection to a single structure. In response to this, I use artwork to create translucent, ephemeral sculptures of these items, revealing them as tangible, hollow shells of their former selves. Clear plastic and packing tape sculptures leave a ghostlike reflection of what was. These shells of inanimate objects are personified through their creation, a process similar to what I compare to mummification or embalming. …
Potential Space, Jocelyn R. Grau
Flotsam & Jetsam, Nicolas S. Shake
Flotsam & Jetsam, Nicolas S. Shake
CGU MFA Theses
My work is pastoral and post-apocalyptic with one foot firmly planted in historical painting and the other in traditional still-life, so it is entropic and sanguine, gleeful, despondent, and matter of fact. It comes at a point in time when the fiction of Nature as a refuge is no longer viable, persuasive or convincing. But rather than rehash this fact, my work celebrates the pastoral’s everyday ordinariness, the capacity for the viewer to experience something wondrous amidst decline. I focus on the cast-off household and utilitarian items that show up in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The …
Front, Jennifer Mitchell
Front, Jennifer Mitchell
CGU MFA Theses
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Here's Looking When, Erica Ryan Stallones
Here's Looking When, Erica Ryan Stallones
CGU MFA Theses
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Nano Rubio Mfa Thesis, Armando Rubio Jr.
Nano Rubio Mfa Thesis, Armando Rubio Jr.
CGU MFA Theses
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A Matter Of Taste., Charles E. Haskins
A Matter Of Taste., Charles E. Haskins
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis paper supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition at the Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, from March 14th through March 18th, 2011. The exhibit is composed of nine oil paintings depicting an invented story about two characters who create a soup for a cooking competition. The show A Matter of Taste chronicles an allegory concerning the evaluation of creative works. Through Gaudie and Baudie's "odd" recipe this work illustrates the ways in artists and art audiences interact and determine artistic value. The work is inspired by techniques in distortion and narrative painting. The following expands on the …
Confabulation: Photographs, Memory, And Painting, Erin Cunningham
Confabulation: Photographs, Memory, And Painting, Erin Cunningham
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is in regards to paintings created by Erin Cunningham for the completion of her MFA in Visual Arts at Boise State University in the spring of 2011. She primarily discusses the tenuous connection between photography and memory. Examining ideas developed by Roland Barthes, she set out to prove that while there is a distinct difference between the factual language of photography and the fictive language of memory, that the two have a type of symbiotic relationship. Particularly in regards to familial photography, the paintings she has developed from this concept examine the construction of memoir using images that …
A Meditative Art, Lori White
A Meditative Art, Lori White
All Student Theses
My artwork symbolizes the idea of meditation through the true and organic forms. I paint a space where my mind is at ease. A place where all the chaos of the world around me stops and become beauty. In my artwork, the organic forms that I produce reflect the meditative power of natural forms. My mind sees the environment in a simple abstract appearance that mirrors a sense of peace and harmony. By painting with smooth, organic, and soft lines my artwork helps me get to a point of relaxation. Through the process of letting go of the world that …
Claudia Carballada Mfa Thesis Statement, Claudia Carballada
Claudia Carballada Mfa Thesis Statement, Claudia Carballada
CGU MFA Theses
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Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne
Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne
CGU MFA Theses
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