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Dotphotozine, Issue 12, 2023, Students Of The Csusb Art Department, Francis Almendarez
Dotphotozine, Issue 12, 2023, Students Of The Csusb Art Department, Francis Almendarez
Dotphotozine
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Extended Substance, Danielle Brensinger
Extended Substance, Danielle Brensinger
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Artist Statement:
“One of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the [viewer] in uncertainty.”
-Sigmeund Freud, “The ‘Uncanny’”
I’m interested in making people uncomfortable. Through the exploration of the uncanny, I exploit the unexpected and the psychological to embrace personal reactions. Like conversations we have with ourselves in the mirror, there’s an uncomfortable nature in looking beyond surface value. Utilizing beauty as a strategy and the laws of attraction, my work intends to entice a visual response only to be met with ambivalence. I try to establish a state of uncertain worlds, partial …
Espacio, Edgar Perez Peña, Edgar Perez Peña
Espacio, Edgar Perez Peña, Edgar Perez Peña
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Edgar Perez Peña (He, Him, His) is a Queer, Chicanx contemporary figurative painter, who lives and works in the Los Angeles County. A native of Los Angeles, California, his paintings, and assemblages are a strong combination of process, materials, and content that displays his fascination on how physical/psychological space (from where he resides), reflects on the Queer Brown body and its comfort/discomfort in relation to public and private space.
Peña looks at his artistic practice as an opportunity to explore the human condition from the Queer and Brown perspective as well the beginning of healing through the meditative process of …
When I Grow Up, Maria Trinidad
When I Grow Up, Maria Trinidad
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Ever since I was a kid, I have had this fear that still lingers today: the fear of being an adult. It’s my ongoing fear.
I look back to my childhood. I find comfort. I was happy and stress-free. In my childhood, I was unrestrained and enjoyed my innocence. It was my “happier times”. I did not have the worries of responsibilities and burdens. That mindset changed when I realized my father had two full time jobs. I stopped acting my age and became more independent. I didn't want to trouble my parents with school or personal issues. Now I …