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North American Data, Joseph A. Burwell Feb 2019

North American Data, Joseph A. Burwell

Theses and Dissertations

North American Data fractures and reconfigures pre-existing narratives into new, unauthorized forms of storytelling. Core samples extracted from various narrative sources are reassigned new roles according to their proximity to each other. This paper functions as an introduction to the essential actors and their dramatic inclinations within fluctuating scenarios.


Constraint And Control, Patricia Ayres Feb 2019

Constraint And Control, Patricia Ayres

Theses and Dissertations

I have long considered themes of the body. Drawing on my knowledge as a fashion designer, I bring materials and hardware from the fashion industry into my artwork transforming and rendering them non-functional. My sculptures relate to stories of isolation, separation, and confinement. The following pages will analyze how the United States penal system controls, constrains and restricts the body through physical and psychological wounds. Furthermore, they will examine how the Catholic Church controls people’s minds and behavior through a ritualistic belief system.


Behind Closet Doors: Horror And Dislocation In The Queer Closet, Corey C. Allen Feb 2019

Behind Closet Doors: Horror And Dislocation In The Queer Closet, Corey C. Allen

Theses and Dissertations

“Behind Closet Doors: Horror and Dislocation in the Queer Closet,” is composed of a collection of sculptures, videos, and sound works that are directly associated with themes of horror and anxiety derived from the precarious space of the queer closet as detailed in this thesis of the same name.


Big Sister Enterprise: Just Be There, Wai Ying Zhao Feb 2019

Big Sister Enterprise: Just Be There, Wai Ying Zhao

Theses and Dissertations

Wai Ying Zhao, an artist and curator, instituted an American company named Big Sister Enterprise in 2018. BSE is a Delaware registered LLC that imitates briefcase companies implemented in order to foster a community of emerging artists with the intent of exhibiting and promoting their works. Zhao’s initiative stems from the awareness that many artists are struggling to continue their studio practices because of unstable income or being overworked in jobs such as art handling, gallery sitting and bartending. Through openings and events held in spaces in both New York and Shenzhen, she aims to create a community where emerging …


Generative Movements, Cabbage Juice, & Habitats Of Selfhood, Jason Michael Rondinelli Feb 2019

Generative Movements, Cabbage Juice, & Habitats Of Selfhood, Jason Michael Rondinelli

Theses and Dissertations

The content of this essay is a reflection on my practice as an artist. A summary of text includes an analysis of my attraction to certain materials such as drywall, cabbage juice and coconut oil, all materials are the extensions of my memory, intention and pleasure. From warm memories of bathhouses and the flesh of others to managing illness at home, my artwork distills a lived experience into material reality. These materials take the shape of sculptural networks that serve as biographical biomes. The architectural and organic components of the work are sourced from my own experience and the surreal …


Writing About Art, Ana Marjanovic Jan 2019

Writing About Art, Ana Marjanovic

Open Educational Resources

The course focuses on practice in the styles and forms of expository writing required in the arts. It recommends the readings that acquaint students with standards of good writing about the arts.


Dress Up, Ye'ela B. Wilschanski Jan 2019

Dress Up, Ye'ela B. Wilschanski

Theses and Dissertations

Dress Up (Performance, 40 minutes) is a dress that functions as a floor, blanket, tablecloth, book and walls. It tells a visual story about domestic care giving rituals, referencing different times and places.


My Painting, Brian Byun Jan 2019

My Painting, Brian Byun

Theses and Dissertations

When the painting is done, it begins to ask me “Who are you?” and “What am I?” This ongoing conversation has fascinated me in making these paintings over the last several months and I’m hoping the viewer will have a similar experience.


Archaeology Of Social Patterning, Chase Bray Jan 2019

Archaeology Of Social Patterning, Chase Bray

Theses and Dissertations

The episteme that created the grid as a structure for logic has been usurped. We compose meaning from an adulterated grid, or pattern. I process meaning through the abuse of acrid patterns and the grid, the reduction of imagery to silhouettes and by referencing both cultural and classical mythology.


The Social Role Of The Artist, Gabino A. Castelan Jan 2019

The Social Role Of The Artist, Gabino A. Castelan

Theses and Dissertations

Gabino A. Castelán, tells a personal story of loss that influenced his artistic practice. He embraced this narrative to create two projects “Practice of Everyday Life-205 (PoEL-205) and the formation of a temporary collective called, Cultural Workers. He presents two case studies of twenty-first century artists, whose projects have business models that allow them to function in social roles during political and social turmoil. "Conflict Kitchen" and "Rebuild Foundation" provide context about running for-profit and not-for-profit artistic practices. Castelan writes about these projects' influencing his artistic practice in general.


The Alchemical Vessel, River Soma Jan 2019

The Alchemical Vessel, River Soma

MFA Statements

My work comes from a place of deep feeling on a bodily level. Amidst the decorative play, there is a sense of the primitive and primordial, and also a certain humanity and clumsiness through struggle. Through the hermetic tradition I relate the alchemical vessel and its symbolic process of interior development to my artistic practice. Focusing in mixed media sculpture, I discovered a concentrated accumulation of symbolism specific to my practice, but also the full recognition of my practice as a ritualized psychological undertaking.


The Curse Of Feathers, Victoria Presslor Jan 2019

The Curse Of Feathers, Victoria Presslor

Allusions

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Hacking, Unlearning, Unleashing, Livia Alexander, Richard Jochum Jan 2019

Hacking, Unlearning, Unleashing, Livia Alexander, Richard Jochum

Department of Art and Design Scholarship and Creative Works

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Never Fall In Love With A Reader, Aneava Trusty Revesz Jan 2019

Never Fall In Love With A Reader, Aneava Trusty Revesz

Allusions

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Roomies, Justine Swisher Jan 2019

Roomies, Justine Swisher

Allusions

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Sinking Boat, Alyson Laplante Jan 2019

Sinking Boat, Alyson Laplante

Allusions

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Portrait Of A Depressive With Friendly Fire And Denial, Taylor R. Thurmond Jan 2019

Portrait Of A Depressive With Friendly Fire And Denial, Taylor R. Thurmond

Allusions

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Kaepheiwaternymph.Tumblr.Com, Anna Louise Wilson Jan 2019

Kaepheiwaternymph.Tumblr.Com, Anna Louise Wilson

Allusions

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[Title: Undetermined], Taylor R. Thurmond Jan 2019

[Title: Undetermined], Taylor R. Thurmond

Allusions

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Self-Portrait As Kitchen Floor, Alyson Laplante Jan 2019

Self-Portrait As Kitchen Floor, Alyson Laplante

Allusions

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Corners, Laura Gentry Jan 2019

Corners, Laura Gentry

Allusions

No abstract provided.


Flower, Laura Gentry Jan 2019

Flower, Laura Gentry

Allusions

No abstract provided.


Hylophobia: Fear Of Forests, Erin Kaczmarek Jan 2019

Hylophobia: Fear Of Forests, Erin Kaczmarek

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No abstract provided.


Canto, Sam T. Morlan Jan 2019

Canto, Sam T. Morlan

Allusions

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Suicide Is Never The Answer, Sam T. Morlan Jan 2019

Suicide Is Never The Answer, Sam T. Morlan

Allusions

No abstract provided.


Spilling, Madison Reneé Williams Jan 2019

Spilling, Madison Reneé Williams

Allusions

No abstract provided.


Waves, Regan Zerwig Jan 2019

Waves, Regan Zerwig

Allusions

No abstract provided.


Names: A Sestina, Matthew Fash Jan 2019

Names: A Sestina, Matthew Fash

Allusions

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Grindr, Matthew Fash Jan 2019

Grindr, Matthew Fash

Allusions

No abstract provided.


Origami, Matthew Fash Jan 2019

Origami, Matthew Fash

Allusions

No abstract provided.