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Full-Text Articles in Sculpture
Specimen X1-2020 Behind The Cover, Clayton Ehman
Specimen X1-2020 Behind The Cover, Clayton Ehman
The STEAM Journal
No abstract provided.
Stretch, Weight, Relaxed, Proud, Twisted, Jesse W. Standlea
Stretch, Weight, Relaxed, Proud, Twisted, Jesse W. Standlea
The STEAM Journal
I created “Stretch, Weight, Relaxed, Proud, Twisted for the show “Perceive Me”. For this show, 48 artists collaborated to create representations with and of the artist Kristine Schomaker. In her artwork, Kristine confronts and deals with body image as related to her struggles with an eating disorder she suffers from.
Nurture, Lauren Taylor League
Nurture, Lauren Taylor League
Graduate Theses
Nurture is a series of sculptural and performative works created to explore the emotional and psychological effects of objects as they relate to familial memory and the various processes one uses to nurture and express love. These moments incapsulate the need for comfort and connection, the need to be nourished, the need for protection, and the need to remember. The filmed interactions with each individual sculpture evoke the natural relationship of emotional release to the processes of remembering and healing.
By using sculpture as a residue of performance and creating work that serves as a memory of interaction and experience, …
Dust And Shadow, Anna Grant Dean
Dust And Shadow, Anna Grant Dean
Graduate Theses
Dust and Shadow is an investigation into systems of order and chaos that exist within the natural and manmade worlds. Human constructs (such as grids) and manmade systems (such as social media) abide in a space that is tangential to the structures and systems that choreograph the functions of the natural world. Exploring how these two very different worlds weave in and out of human existence allows me to examine my relationship to the complex facets of this twenty-first century experience.
My research into chaos and entropy serves as a catalyst for this body of work. Examining the parallels between …
De La Nature Au Processus D’Artification. Matière [Forme/Objet] Sens, Alexandre Melay
De La Nature Au Processus D’Artification. Matière [Forme/Objet] Sens, Alexandre Melay
The Goose
Les progrès technologiques modifient radicalement ce qui nous était autrefois familier. Ce sentiment troublant venu de l’ère Anthropocène met en lumière l’impact humain sur la nature. Mais la perte d’un monde naturel nous oblige à gérer notre environnement en tant qu’environnement artificiel. Face à cette mutation profonde du concept même de nature, l’art opère un processus d’artification, renouvelant la nature dans de nouvelles formes néoarchéologiques et de nouvelles esthétiques, par le « passage du non-art en art ».
Surface Levels, Keisha Brathwaite
Surface Levels, Keisha Brathwaite
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Surface Levels are depictions of unobserved and imperceptible realities of many phytoplankton exteriors. The exhibition explores various structures, textures, and repetitious forms from microscopic surfaces of objects that cannot be seen with unaided eyes. Electron microscopy is used to perceive and analyze these otherwise unseeable surfaces in depth. Magnifications provide a reference in creating three- and two-dimensional works that are minimalistic and abstract at a visible level. This abstract 3D/2D image collection is translated into material expressions using acrylic sheets, acrylic ink, and wood as the main media for construction of individual works. Collectively, they serve to make the invisible …
In The Garden, Clare Samani
In The Garden, Clare Samani
LSU Master's Theses
My work has focused largely on identity and self-expression, primarily through clothing, pattern, and color as a symbolic content. Having heavily investigated historical costume and clothing from various periods, my attention is drawn to the highly sculptural and ornamented garments of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the rococo, and the baroque. In these colorful and puffed garments, I am attracted to the similarities that I see in nature. How we adorn ourselves mimics various flowers, plants and animals in the pursuit of desire and procreation. Focusing on fabric manipulation, printmaking and sculpture, In the Garden coalesces into ambiguous sculptures that …
Recycle Bin (Trashure), Eunhyung Chung
Recycle Bin (Trashure), Eunhyung Chung
Masters Theses
I am inspired by painful and exhausting situations, fragile or impermanent things that break easily and do not last long, so most of my works are installation or performance which changes as time goes by. I think a lot about the sense of loss and there are two kinds of loss in my work. One is the loss of precious moments and emotions of the past. Since I have so many blissful memories of my childhood related to art, they are the driving force of my artwork and they form the core of my identity. The loss of direction and …
I - 0, Sanghyun Koh
I - 0, Sanghyun Koh
Masters Theses
This pack of cards is a provisional collection of encyclopedic thoughts and knowledge selectively hoarded for the artist’s comprehension of the world. These cumulative writings, packaged in a distributive form for intellectual play, cover the artist’s past workings, current studies and dormant plans, amassed in the responsible attitude of selection as well as in the irresponsible method of organization. The content of this 144-card deck is basically oriented to the oscillating status of a self seeking the ‘Grasping Totality’ as a human desire and of the ‘Improbability of Reach’ as a human limitation, whether true or false, proven or unproven, …
Watermarks : The Catalogue For Home Enthusiasts, Susana Oliveros Amaya
Watermarks : The Catalogue For Home Enthusiasts, Susana Oliveros Amaya
Masters Theses
Not just when tricks are revealed as tricks, but also when they become something else and materials still push one direction but then take a different turn. The wardrobe does not quite fit in your Ford Ka, the shelves are not exactly straight, the bed does not fit the mattress and the cabinets do not line up. The tension between ideals and use opens a space for re-appropriation, one that can reveal and turn its socioeconomic codes against themselves. Perhaps these are precisely the moments of friction when these ideological watermarks can be disrupted.
Wrung From Grave Architectures, Megan Solis
Wrung From Grave Architectures, Megan Solis
Masters Theses
Found or imagined findings... notes, diary entries, texts, prayers and poems
Disasters are avenues to gain intimacy glory is the constant
What is the skeleton made of, if not to be filled with meat to be piled and molded to bring back life.
pain and memory to be grave architectures, the stuctures that fall,
a plea for humanity: “Am I just a phantom waiting to be ripped from shady ground?”
desperate melancholy we realize that she is
I am
you are
tragic.
guilt to perform, to retraumatize is a punishment and is masochistic. to violently reenact, like haunted ghosts, to …
Snake Tube Adventure Racing… And More!, Jane Marie M. Tardo
Snake Tube Adventure Racing… And More!, Jane Marie M. Tardo
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
My work revolves around using a specialized blend of art, design, and craft to interpret political narratives through fabricated products. These objects weave contemporary commentary and consumer indulgences into sculptural cultures. Each product is designed to mimic its own marketed culture—offering an enticingly tactile, interactive experience that is equal parts confusing, concerning, and delightful. The products are accompanied by investment opportunities in the form of popular, limited released merchandized objects, such as hats and patches. Using humor and subtlety, my gamelike installations explore arenas such as agency, autonomy, intimacy, and dueling realities in a time of ecological collapse and cultural …
Tenacity, Order & Disorder, Lucy Manalo
Tenacity, Order & Disorder, Lucy Manalo
CGU MFA Theses
My work is about empowerment. The idea of using metal comes from my past experience as a welder/machinist in the Air Force. Metal is a tough medium and I believe it conveys the themes of strength and tenacity through it’s materiality.
The Object Memory Palace, Amra Causevic
The Object Memory Palace, Amra Causevic
Theses and Dissertations
I am interested in orchestrating instances of potentiality or concrete possibilities that proposes the futurity of play through means of touch, activation, assembly, and interaction within art spaces. The installation mentioned is composed of found objects and repurposed materials that address themes of place, memory, object-ness, and the archive, through gestural means of poetics and map making. It is an invitation to create new logics and find moments of empathy, connectivity, and hopes for a collective.
I Poked You Where We Were Connected, Sophia Ruppert
I Poked You Where We Were Connected, Sophia Ruppert
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work
Life leaves behind physical and mental residue. Some of these remnants are precious while others are tragic. Regardless of its origin, this residue can be made beautiful. Remnants of the objects that surround us chronicle our history as complex individuals. My sculptures investigate my own physical and mental residue to dissect and examine my personal history.
I unravel experiences that are residually prominent in my memories. Of particular importance are events and objects that have shaped my perception of self.
stories told by my grandmothers
a dysfunctional family dynamic
objects that provide visual touchstones to my childhood
These fragments are …
An Open Bag, Matilde Benmayor
An Open Bag, Matilde Benmayor
Theses and Dissertations
What do we take with us? How much space should we leave in the bag for what we might find? This paper is a journey from under the rug and onto the pavement. Sowing spiderweb maps I try to make a new city my own.
Who's Mess?, Jordan Stohl
Who's Mess?, Jordan Stohl
Theses and Dissertations
Sculpture, Video and Painting have become tools for mediating a hyperactive society fetishizing sensory overload.
Memory Bread, Nisiqi
Memory Bread, Nisiqi
Art + Design Masters Theses
Memory Bread, constituting a daily performance ritual and the post-action objects, seeks to address the generational decline of mother language use in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a post-colonized province of China. I chose to eat sliced white bread in the performance and later casted concrete sculptures as the extension of the action for both substances’ capitalistic nature. Being an invasive material that took over the traditional architectural lifestyle, the use of concrete mirrors the pervasive cultural and ethnic assimilation in China. Meanwhile, the materiality of concrete being a mixture of various substances also metaphors the mixed culture that Chinese-Mongolians …
Good Grief, Madeleine Pearl Buzbee
Good Grief, Madeleine Pearl Buzbee
Senior Projects Spring 2020
“Good Grief” is a memorial project that began with the loss of my childhood best friend, Camille Sdao (1998-2019). She was a light.
Grief is a thing that is carried, compartmentalized, expanded, forgotten, and remembered. Grief is nothing and everything at the same time. Grief explodes, lingers, leaves and returns again. Grief is blue. I know this because Louise Bourgeois, Maggie Nelson, Taryn Simon, the Pacific Ocean, my tears, the sky, my mother, and my grandmother have taught me this. Loss means wading in deep waters for a long time and you must build a boat to stay afloat.
Consumed …
In The Shadows And Folds, Julia Mueller
In The Shadows And Folds, Julia Mueller
Senior Projects Spring 2020
In the shadows and folds is the result of a mental scavenger hunt that I began this past year, to uncover myself and find what is hidden in my crevices. It was spurred by my fear of memory loss which had grown to such a size that it sat visible in the back of my mind unaddressed for some time. The reason for this fear is not large but it feels monumental. I have been existing in various states of sadness and disconnect, which have acted like a thick blanket over my mind. This blanket is simultaneously protective and damaging, …
I Think You Were In My Dream Last Night, Josie Cotton
I Think You Were In My Dream Last Night, Josie Cotton
Senior Projects Spring 2020
I Think You Were In My Dream Last Night
I have always worked by creating opportunities for mistakes and then fixing them. I’ve taken inspiration from the things I pick up every day: cups, necklaces, coat hangers, tables, chairs. I’ve taken inspiration from my dreams. They are always based in reality but twisted into a shape I’ve never seen before, and I wonder where these ideas come from. When I wake up, the people or the places I dreamt about are changed forever by a new perspective, out of my control. That is an idea I wanted to sift through …
Dredge The Foundry | For Dirt And Era, Woody Stauffer
Dredge The Foundry | For Dirt And Era, Woody Stauffer
Master's Theses
Billions of years are past us and billions of years await. Shaping earthen material into sculptural abstractions is my way to sense and convey the lethargic natural progression of the planet. Fossilization, rot, dirt, plant growth, animal existence, and rust are aesthetics I endow with new perspectives and form through mold making and casting. The dichotomy between the eons of time behind us and the endless possibility of a technological future has inspired the addition of a science fiction aesthetic. To rust these computerized constructed geometric forms demonstrates how futuristic ideals will also wither away. In many ways we are …
Accumulation, Erin Mccarty
Accumulation, Erin Mccarty
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
This written Thesis is the supporting documentation for Accumulation, a Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition at West Virginia University. This exhibition creates an environment in which a viewer can enter. This installation environment is created based on formal elements combined with fantastical elements from the imagination of the artist. The formal choices in the work provoke a positive otherworldly and whimsical response in the viewer. The environment is designed to provide relief from problems in the everyday world through patterns, forms, colors and surfaces. These elements are harvested from the natural world and recombined in a fantastical way. …