Remembering Virtual Worlds: Painting And Video Games,
2017
James Madison University
Remembering Virtual Worlds: Painting And Video Games, Nathaniel M. St. Amour
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
Video games create the feeling of great achievement and place the player into a role that turns them into a great hero. These experiences feel significant because they require great time and emotional investment. The monumentality of these experiences, however, are at odds with the transience of the electrical virtual worlds. The medium of oil painting helps overcome the sense of transience because of oil painting’s durable permanent way of image making and stillness. Painting’s inherent nod to history also creates a dissonance between the newness of the video game medium and the antiquity of painting, a contrast exacerbated by …
Black Matter,
2017
Washington University in St. Louis
Black Matter, Kahlil Irving
Graduate School of Art Theses
History as we know it, is inherited. Racism, fascism, white supremacy, and Eurocentric dominance have been presented as normal and acceptable within our society for many years. This has allowed police officers to execute Black American’s and not be acquitted for their horrendous crimes. As an activist I want to challenge the status quo. As an artist I am interested in investigating how I can present ideas embody or reflect contemporary issues and concerns. Using different colors can aggressively change how an object is perceived. Historical objects hold many important.
I explore many mediums, but an anchor material that I …
Bleeding Ink: Creativity In Grief For Resilience,
2017
University of Rhode Island
Bleeding Ink: Creativity In Grief For Resilience, Gabriel E. Sayre
Senior Honors Projects
A venomous void pierces the present.
Emanating from the past, echoing to the future.
Seething sensations burrowing beneath the bone.
Seek a road, to not corrode.
Scribe or scribble, Scavenge salvation.
Settle cement of a new foundation.
Faceless fears fading,
weakening woes waning,
mending mentality.
Internally Inspired.
Transformation Transpired.
In Arcadia,
2017
Brigham Young University
Canterbury Cathedral,
2017
Brigham Young University
Looking Toward The Light,
2017
Brigham Young University
Looking Toward The Light, Abigail Remington
AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
No abstract provided.
To The Moon And Back,
2017
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
To The Moon And Back, Michael Tyler Pennekamp
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Almost fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission, the moon landing remains one of humankind’s most remarkable technological achievements. On the lunar surface, the Eagle’s flight crew left behind an American flag, mementos honoring those who lost their lives in the quest for such an achievement, and a plaque reading, “Here men from the planet Earth set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.” Despite overwhelming proof of this achievement—radio transmissions, photographs, film, rock and soil samples—a sizable minority of Americans continue to view the Apollo 11 moon landing as a hoax. To …
Off The Grid,
2017
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Off The Grid, Matthew Owen Buffington
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Off the Grid explores the messy relationship between public and private perceptions of our urban spaces, especially the tensions created when lived experience runs up against the physical and conceptual networks of cities: street grids, construction tape, and property lines. Incorporating different modes of spatial representation, from cartographic diagrams to isometric illustrations and Renaissance perspectives, this exhibition examines the role drawing plays in how we conceptualize the divisions and definitions of everyday space. The drawings engage the often overlooked detritus of city life, from layers of old graffiti to overgrown dirt piles and unmoored electrical wiring, that complicate our understanding …
Capture One,
2017
Collin College
Pears,
2017
Collin College
Navaho Tea,
2017
Collin College
That Guy,
2017
Collin College
Untitled,
2017
Collin College
What The Red Witch Requires,
2017
Collin College
The Love Game A Spoken Word,
2017
Collin College
Christine,
2017
Collin College
Man/Boy.,
2017
University of Louisville
Man/Boy., Nick Hartman
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Verisimilitude, or the appearance of being true, is a concept I turn upside down; relating it to a guise I wear as a contemporary male in a society dictated by learned social behavior and gender norms. Cultural iconography and expected gender norms are tropes I confront within my artwork. Drawings of seemingly everyday objects act as meditations or a fetishized repetition of supposed unobtainable objects and ideals that deal with masculine societal norms. Manliness, machismo, masculinity… it is all a culturally learned and expected pose placed on all men. Coming to the realization that I do not necessarily fit …
Safe Death,
2017
DePauw University
Safe Death, Adam Rathbun
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Girl With The Hoop Earring,
2017
DePauw University
Girl With The Hoop Earring, Skip Brea
A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University
No abstract provided.
Silver Lining,
2017
Brigham Young University
