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Utility Lines, Carolyn Hartwell
Utility Lines, Carolyn Hartwell
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
The paintings included in this Thesis Exhibition explore the theme of fragility that retains quiet strength. Combining delicacy with tenacity is how I arrived at the name of the exhibition, Utility Lines. A utility line transfers energy and is vulnerable to both weather and accident; the fragile materiality is the weakness inherent to functionality. In my work, I am deciding how much responsibility for the stability of a composition can be carried by the most tenuous elements. I test how much of the emotional and compositional load of a painting can be born by muted colors, awkward shapes and unsteady …
Fourpaintingsomedrawingsandaprintbehindapillar, Sam R. Brown
Fourpaintingsomedrawingsandaprintbehindapillar, Sam R. Brown
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
My work is about the interest of communication and visual story telling through the mediums of drawing and painting. This comes from my earliest artistic education through comics. My exposure to comics has informed my decisions on composition and visual language. The reason why I chose to work with this in mind is because I see a general lack of this sort of visual storytelling in contemporary art. The process of telling stories through visual media is something that had been done for millennia. Through my work I wish to take this issue and utilize it to a contemporary viewer. …
Tangible Transformation: Change In Intangible Times, Rhonda R. Dass
Tangible Transformation: Change In Intangible Times, Rhonda R. Dass
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
Pulling the intangible cloud to the forefront, this exhibition transforms the ethereal image of the cloud into the tangible paper and canvas representations that flirt between what is and what can be. I combine techniques from drawing, painting, and papermaking, to create clouds that leave the heavens and solidify and yet spark the imagination in new directions. Presented as my thesis exhibition, my exploration of the ever-shifting cloud scape helps express my understandings in and about a transforming world of change. Two years ago, when the world turned sideways, I was in the middle of a series of paintings and …
Novaturient, Robert Tyler Willmore
Novaturient, Robert Tyler Willmore
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
John Muir famously said, "The mountains are calling and I must go." The yearning ache to visit and connect with natural wild landscapes is real. Through brush and pigment, I attempt to capture the mystery and wonder of wild landscapes that have inspired me to be a novaturient soul. The power of landscape is generally symbolic yet uniquely concrete. Exploring the balancing conflicts of nature has led me to comprehend the universe and my place in it.
By mimicking the naturalist who breaks down wild spaces into macro-focused observations, I translate my experience with landscape into relationships of line, shape, …
Mythology Of Uncertainty, Connor Johanson
Mythology Of Uncertainty, Connor Johanson
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
I think of my work as a mythology under constant revision that reevaluates our human perceptions of the natural world. The root of mythology comes to us from ancient Greek mythos. The original meaning of mythos was simply an account from memory–your mythos could be what your day was like, what happened and how you felt. We are all in the continuous process of building narratives of our individual lives, our cultures, and the world around us.
Human stories and values–mythos–underlie metaphors and analogies, meaning that no discussion of scientific ideas can be free of cultural bias. Discussion of symbiotic …
Reclaim, Harris Benjamin Deno
Reclaim, Harris Benjamin Deno
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
I make ceramic and mixed media objects that embody interaction with material. Translated from the simple utterance of the hand the material articulates the labor. As in any relationship there are miscommunications and disagreements; Desperation, struggle, and honest interaction are apparent on the surface of the labored forms. Objects are created in an immediate fashion, the intimacy of the moment folded into the material. Each interaction an embodiment of the human experience. I think of these works as entries in a journal; The gravity of a moment is captured, relieving the mind by bearing that weight.
Whenever approaching a work, …
Augmentation Of Music, Kyle Lenzen
Augmentation Of Music, Kyle Lenzen
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
My main inspiration for my work is music. I convey the idea of music in a physical and conceptual way. The way I represent music in my work is through Collage, Silhouettes, and Abstract Shapes. The main elements that I use can be found in album art, musicians and musical notation. Music has been a huge influence on my life. I want to share that influence and bring people together through my work. Music creates connections with anybody and can bridge different cultures together.
One way to document music is using the staff. The basic staff uses five lines and …
Chroma Pneuma, Shayna Tietje
Chroma Pneuma, Shayna Tietje
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
I was conducting process trials based on water. As I reacted to what was being produced, I found myself having little moments of joyful discovery. I was fascinated to observe patterns and implied textures that were generated through natural process; these patterns mimic the fractal nature of repetitive structures on a micro to macro scale that we see within our natural world. Patterns whose resemblance ranges from formations found in semi- precious stones, such as jasper or agate; to satellite imagery of branching river systems and sites of massive erosion. While the implied texture of the work was being influenced …
Painting The Persona, Reed Dean White
Painting The Persona, Reed Dean White
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
I am an oil painter who paints the human form as a subject. My technique varies between loose transparent glazes to more realistic impasto, revealing the process in which I paint. My colors are often exaggerated and unrealistic. I choose to paint people in my community because it reveals a story about the time and place I live in. I enjoy painting people because we are interesting as physical objects: color, form, the way our bodies change as we age, what we chose to wear, etc.. We come in many different sizes, colors, shapes, our postures and facial expressions articulate …
Jasmine Greenwaldt: Continuum, Jasmine Elise Greenwaldt
Jasmine Greenwaldt: Continuum, Jasmine Elise Greenwaldt
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
I create in order to explore. I welcome the unexpected, not only in my art but in my life as well. The process of creation and exploration have just as much importance as the finished product itself. I seek to express emotion in my work, whether that be through color, brush strokes or simply the movement of paint. My thesis reflects all of the exploration I have done not only throughout graduate school but during my life. It has become a written book of my journey, demonstrated through the use of paint.
Christian Iconography: A Search For Form In The Paintings Of Kaul And Others, Marlin R. Kaul
Christian Iconography: A Search For Form In The Paintings Of Kaul And Others, Marlin R. Kaul
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
In the subsequent chapters the writer will relate (1) the historical significance of Christian art and show relationships of philosophies as to content and form in religious paintings; (2) the inclusion of an analysis of his paintings in relation to Christian Iconography and a discussion of the extent to which historical content and symbolism have influenced his work; and (3) observations of his work compared with contemporary painting.