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Elements, Stephen Anthony Geffre
Elements, Stephen Anthony Geffre
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
This thesis consisted of a gallery exhibition titled “Elements” featuring sculpture created by Stephen Geffre for his Master of Arts in Sculpture from University of Minnesota-Mankato, located in Mankato Minnesota. The exhibition ran from October 16, 2017 to October 31, 2017. The artwork explored sacredness---sacredness rooted in the natural, sacredness rooted within the minds of human kind, sacredness in the form of the classical elements Earth, Air, Fire and Water.
All the work was created in part with material that was going to be thrown away or sold at a fraction of its cost because of its imperfection.
Assiduous Adaptation, Shelley Therese Caldwell
Assiduous Adaptation, Shelley Therese Caldwell
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
Growing up in a rural environment, you both witness the wonders of the natural world and learn to be resourceful with what you already have. This lesson has had a profound impact on my work as an installation artist whose practice combines mixed media drawing with subjects from nature and daily life. Drawing spider plant (chlorophytum comosum) silhouettes upon legal pad pages then displaying them alongside actual plants—each accumulated to near absurdity—exemplifies the creative impulse behind the work; combining familiar items and imagery into large-scale installations transforms the space they inhabit as well as their ordinary meaning into something extraordinary. …
North Of The Heart East Of Victory, Joel Hansen
North Of The Heart East Of Victory, Joel Hansen
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
Just as music can be described as colorful and text can provide texture, art has a voice. That voice can scream, whisper or babble incoherently. It can also sing. Making art sing is the overarching goal of all my work. There are no formulas or templates, of which I am aware, on how to accomplish this but if I think of individual pieces as songs, a series as an album and exhibits as concerts art can become sonorous. Shadows and highlights act as rhythm. Color and composition behave as melodies and arrangements. If I've done my job correctly the art …