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Voyager, Ben K. Voss

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores painting as a site of meditation, time and (un)knowability.

Tenaciously Curious, Joe Mark Taylor

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

In this thesis paper, I will outline the journey I’ve taken throughout my graduate studies at the University of Montana and how it has culminated in my thesis exhibition, Tenaciously Curious. I’ll begin with an Introduction that speaks to the importance of finding ways to connect to nature, and the benefits we gain by recognizing our bodies as extensions of the organic world.

In the following section, Influences, Theory and Lineage, I’ll explore the themes that drive my research, highlight artists who have influenced my work, and discuss why this inquiry feels vital within our contemporary moment.

In the section …

Fugitives, Chi Quế Phạm

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam, Chi Q Pham is currently a junior pursuing film and studio art at DePauw University. She works across paintings, drawings, animations and videos, exploring themes of identity and displacement.

Afterglow, Chi Quế Phạm

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam, Chi Q Pham is currently a junior pursuing film and studio art at DePauw University. She works across paintings, drawings, animations and videos, exploring themes of identity and displacement.

"‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‎", Stephen Harmon

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

My work tries to perplex the viewer to acknowledge themselves in the act of seeing. In order to perplex them, I use ambiguous reference to figure and space using multiple perspectives, vantage points, gaze, marks, mediums, and, more recently, light and site specificity to establish liminal relationships and experiences. Liminality is a kind of in-betweenness, being on the threshold of places or states of being. My experiences in and studies of the Jewish Diaspora have been my path towards understanding liminality, but liminality is not unique to diaspora or to the Jewish experience and my work does not attempt to …

Crumpled, Chi Nguyen

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Double Face, Chi Nguyen

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

As The Sun Yellows The Green Of The Maple Tree, Adam Fulwiler

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

As the Sun Yellows the Green of the Maple Tree is a body of paintings investigating communication, improvisation, play, and painting’s capacity for transformation.

Reflecting on my childhood spent with my brother, Austin, who experiences sensory differences due to autism, I establish a painted space that is both forcibly disjointed and meaningfully connected, invoking the uncertainty and complexity of perception and communication. Through chromatic nuance, physicality, representational ambiguity, and visual tempo, I invite the viewer into the act of slow looking—to encounter each work as a living, breathing, individual entity.

In the studio, I invent rules and aleatoric devices, mimicking …

Interrogating The Light Bugs, Ana C. Villagomez

Theses and Dissertations

My paintings engage with ideas of time, memory and displacement. Intricately painted works appear to cover other layers of information hidden underneath through the act of rubbing, masking and erasing with unconventional tools such as scour pads, toilet brushes and rags, creating a surface that resembles a complex topographical map. But unlike a traditional cartographer, I seek to map my inner world.

Tomtom Oracle, Grant B. Wells

Theses and Dissertations

TomTom Oracle explores the conceptual and material processes throughout my body of work as an expression of a psychological tethering to a digital visual experience that removes us from the physical world.

Over Certain Undecidedness These Heartstring Intimations, Martha Hemingway

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

over certain undecidedness these heartstring intimations is the culmination of a two-year-long abstracted cycle of textured conversation, internal eye contact, and endless playlist-making. Hemingway’s work is based in process-oriented reflections on habitual behavior, manifestation of sentiment, and sense of self. Her paintings draw inspiration from the ways in which we approach and avoid our internal and external routines – how degrees of our subconscious considerations affect how we extend ourselves to others. Individual auditory preferences of different colliding souls have carved a space for her in a language of empathetic abstraction – attempting to elaborate the curious beauty and pain …

The Buried Body, Oscar Morel

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Untitled 2, Daniela Chapparo

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Painting Down, Claire Stankus

MFA Statements

No abstract provided.

A Shift In Silence, Bailey Idom

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A Shift in Silence is a body of work that emerged because of a key shift in my life. Using the formal components of line, shape, and value, I create a space representing an intimate moment in time. Physically, the medium can be any material, but I process all of this as an expression of line. Each piece shares the commonality of lines and lineage, while the layering embodies the record of my relationships from the past that directly affect the present. The abstraction and unpredictability within my own relationships require openness and vulnerability. This honest dialogue sustains and informs …

Searching Spaces, Adam Rathbun

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Safe Death, Adam Rathbun

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

It Could Have Been Great: An Examination Of Kandinsky's Bauhaus Paintings And The Great Synthesis Of The Arts, Deanna Brooks

Institute for the Humanities Theses

When Nazism descended upon the German art world in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s, artists were treated as an expendable group of "political undesirables." Among them was Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who experienced firsthand the political pressure placed on his career, as he attempted to visualize a weltanschauung or "world view," that involved the marriage of different types of art, media, and practices. For Kandinsky the "Great Synthesis of the Arts" revealed the collective historical narrative, to which all artists contributed, and he strove to actualize this lifelong goal over the course of his teaching career at …

James Kao Interview, Alice Haller

Asian American Art Oral History Project

Artist Bio: James Kao was born and raised in Houston, Texas. After studying philosophy and focusing on the texts of Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Chicago, he worked as a bakery buyer for a specialty foods retail chain in Southern California. In 2001, James forwent his corporate career and returned to Chicago to take classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he received an MFA from the Painting and Drawing Department. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Aurora University in Aurora, IL, and is co-founder and co-director of 4^th Ward Project Space in …

Encounters, Judy Knowles Ford

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Patterns, Kendra Roberts

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Bottles Study, Melissa Steach

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Untitled, Jim Zimmer

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Disintegration, Helena Guzman

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Ribbons In The Sky, Chris Pulliam

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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The Day The Chair Collapsed, Jennifer Mayhew

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Jennifer Mayhew ("The Day the Chair Collapsed," p. 23 and "Untitled," p. 21) is a senior art major from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Anxiety Depths, Tim Allen

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Tim Allen (Anxiety Depths, p.26) is a Senior from Louisville, Kentucky.

Untitled, Jeff Kent '93

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Jeff Kent '93 (Untitled, p. 31) is a PreMed major from Shelbyville, IN.

Untitled, Carrie Larson '90

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Carrie Larson '90 (Untitled, p. 4, Untitled, p. 27) is an Art major from Wayzata, MN.

J'S In Space, Ashley Earnest '91

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Ashley Earnest '91 (An Evening in Marco, p. 26, J's In Space, p. 29) is an Art major from Kansas City, MO.