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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.
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Claudia Carballada Mfa Thesis Statement, Claudia Carballada
Claudia Carballada Mfa Thesis Statement, Claudia Carballada
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Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne
Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne
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