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Full-Text Articles in Art Practice
Delicacies, Michelle Carla Handel
Delicacies, Michelle Carla Handel
CGU MFA Theses
My work initiates a conversation about corporeal strangeness by creating ambiguity or mystery where simultaneous qualities of sensuality, vulnerability, and disgust exist. I create contradictions, subverting pleasing or friendly forms with uncomfortable qualities to elicit a sort of visceral consternation. Cues pointing in different directions can remain simply experiential or they can refer to the complexity of the body and raise questions about human attitudes towards it. Abstraction is used as a visual shorthand or entry point to the body in an effort to describe commonality among humans rather than emphasizing their differences. In this way, there is more freedom …
Selecting In - Selecting Out, Melanie S. Moore Bermudez
Selecting In - Selecting Out, Melanie S. Moore Bermudez
CGU MFA Theses
The scientific process was developed as a means to understanding the world around us. It is a systematic approach to reaching the unknown, and consists of fixed and unknown variables. At the beginning of an inquiry the known variables are identified and utilized within the experiment. But working with what is known and predictable can only go so far. It is with the introduction of the unpredictable that gaps are bridged and a new lens to see is created. It is this methodology that is at the foundation of my art practice. Please see Download button in top right corner …
Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne
Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne
CGU MFA Theses
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Between, Summer Janelle
Between, Summer Janelle
CGU MFA Theses
My art evolves out of deep attentiveness to idiosyncratic aspects of mundane experience. These aspects of experience are manifested through body language, gestures, facial expressions, and the peripheral hunch. They arise from the awkward and pleasurable peculiarities of interacting with humanity on a daily basis. My work also touches upon fantasies and private thoughts that can determine behavior when individuals interact.Please see Download button in top right corner for the full statement.
Increments Of Fourteen, Rachel C. Edwards
Wunderkammer, Dai Toyofuku
Wunderkammer, Dai Toyofuku
CGU MFA Theses
I manufacture objects that confuse classification and cross boundaries. Part unicorn horn and part Narwhal tusk, these objects straddle categorical containers. My sculptures attempt to break free from inherited structures of knowledge and modes of seeing. The boxes and pedestals are akin to these imposed structures, though these traditional structures always fall just short of fulfilling their supposed function; these categorical containers slowly leak.
Bestiary, Rebecca N. Tice
Bestiary, Rebecca N. Tice
CGU MFA Theses
My work focuses on the fantastic and the peculiar. It grows out of an interest in animals, myth, and the human tendency to anthropomorphize.
Doubting Thomas, Michael K. Carter
Doubting Thomas, Michael K. Carter
CGU MFA Theses
My work is a deliberate attempt at a personal sense of wrongness. I believe that encountering this wrongness is more sincere and revealing of myself and my audience then any attempt at correctness could be. I feel there is a vulnerability and exposure in being the first to speak up, to leap before looking, to react without thinking, analyze or process experience.
Yarell Castellanos, Artist Statement, Yarell Castellanos
Yarell Castellanos, Artist Statement, Yarell Castellanos
CGU MFA Theses
My work explores the beautiful aspects of the grotesque elements in nature. My goal is to make conflicted and contradictory pieces in which abstraction and representation interact. I find that contradictions and extreme behaviors in nature to be stimulating.
Which Is Not One, Alex C. Moore
Which Is Not One, Alex C. Moore
CGU MFA Theses
Specific yet anonymous, my paintings allow the viewer to sit within what would normally be a fleeting moment of intimacy.
The Nature Of Making Sense, Allison Alford
The Nature Of Making Sense, Allison Alford
CGU MFA Theses
My interest is to breed the mystical with the mundane, producing informational systems that coalesce knowledge, ambiguity, logic and fantasy. The species that populate my imagery are totems that could function as heroines, monsters or shapes that elude and inform us. The work functions as a stage upon which, pixels, paint and mystical figures coexist. Each panel acts as a composite of multiple frames of a video: figures combine with paintings, drawings, symbols, and landscape. Though ultimately singular in image, the pictures imply multiplicity. The lineage of the work can be traced to influences such as François Dufrêne, Max Ernst’s …
The Observer Effect, Azadeh Tajpour
The Observer Effect, Azadeh Tajpour
CGU MFA Theses
My work explores the gray area and the shifting border between "us" and "other." It investigates the helplessness and the submissiveness on both sides of this spectrum and one's passivity that makes the "pain of others" inevitable. Moreover, it examines the individual and collective experiences of guilt and complicity in relation to world events. I am interested in the selective and repressed memories of individuals and nations, the reluctance to look and the ability to forget.
Gamespace, Kevin M. Scianni
Gamespace, Kevin M. Scianni
CGU MFA Theses
My work uses gameplay, the experience of interacting with a gaming system, as a strategy to generate paintings. I interact with a set of rules, challenges and goals loosely derived from the structure of early videogames as a method to compose a painting. I am interested in how game strategies can address formal aspects of painting. I am also interested in how gameplay as an indicator of game quality or the desire to continually be challenged will continually advance the paintings.
Shhh... Say Nothing, Luis Rendon
Shhh... Say Nothing, Luis Rendon
CGU MFA Theses
My art is the foundation I use to commune with myself and bridge the gap to the rest of the world. A gap created by everyday being surrounded by information, so much so that it is easy to become numb. I do not want, because of my inability to filter the relentless onslaught of information, to walk through life tuned off. All that undigested knowledge leaves me feeling distant from myself and unable to connect with others. This leaves me with the sensation of not knowing myself.
Deep End, Emily Smith
Deep End, Emily Smith
CGU MFA Theses
In my work I examine how and where nature and culture collide, merge, overlap or become one. Ultimately my goal is to draw attention to the ways we perceive and remember nature as well as ho w we experience the natural landscape in opposition to built environments. I am also interested in how our relation to these spaces changes over time and how we might envision these environments in the not-s o-distant future.
Touch, Liz Nurenberg
Touch, Liz Nurenberg
CGU MFA Theses
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The City With Rolling Hills, Andrew Ballstaedt
The City With Rolling Hills, Andrew Ballstaedt
CGU MFA Theses
I use painting as a form of ritual and meditation where I often spend lots of time painting and repeating simple marks over and over again. On occasion, I am able to make quick paintings that are successful but most of the time I am compelled to spend repetitive hours making marks in order to reach my state of personal mediation through the ritual of painting. Please see Download button in top right corner for the full statement.
Minority Report, Tan Jazz Mont
Minority Report, Tan Jazz Mont
CGU MFA Theses
I make large, colorful, messy figurative paintings that tell stories and celebrate the underdog. I use found objects, as well as wood panels and canvases. The poetry of the street plays an important role in my art; from what I paint on, to what I paint with, to my subject matter, my art conveys both liberation and pride toward my Hispanic culture. When I create, I allow the paint to be true to its physical properties. I am aggressive and free in my painting and mark-making. If my paintings begin to appear “sophisticated,” I find ways to manipulate them. I …
Searching For California's Hang Trees, Ken Gonzales-Day
Searching For California's Hang Trees, Ken Gonzales-Day
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
Also known as the Hang Tree Series, this was part of Ken Gonzales-Day's eight year project to search for, and photograph, possible, probably, and verifiable lynching sites in California. Perhaps most significantly, his project included the discovery and documentation of over 350 cases of lynching in the state of California between 1850 and 1935. Contrary to the popular image of 'cowboy justice' and Wild West vigilantism as being an exclusively white-on-white crime, Gonzales-Day was able to document, that in California, the majority (nearly two thirds) of cases of vigilantism involved the lynching of African Americans, Native Americans, Chinese, and Latinos …
Élan Vital, Sharon Mealey
Élan Vital, Sharon Mealey
CGU MFA Theses
My art explores the inner qualities of life, focusing on adaptability and resiliency. I am interested in the mysterious vital force philosophers call élan vital that animates human beings. I investigate the transitory nature of life where it intersects with élan vital. My paintings accommodate the ephemeral and the perpetual. Please see Download button in top right corner for the full statement.
Interpretations Of Medievalism In The 19th Century: Keats, Tennyson And The Pre-Raphaelites, Shannon K. Wilsey
Interpretations Of Medievalism In The 19th Century: Keats, Tennyson And The Pre-Raphaelites, Shannon K. Wilsey
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis describes how different 19th century poets and artists depicted elements of the medieval in their artwork as a means to contradict the rapid progress and metropolitan build-up of the Industrial Revolution. The poets discussed are John Keats and Alfred, Lord Tennyson; the painters include William Holman Hunt and John William Waterhouse. Examples of the poems and corresponding Pre-Raphaelite depictions include The Eve of Saint Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and The Lady of Shalott.
Humans, Elizabeth Ferguson
Humans, Elizabeth Ferguson
Pitzer Senior Theses
Artists' book utilizing cross disciplinary media.
Performing Violence: The (Un)Reality Of War - Chris Burden, Edward Kienholz, Wafaa Bilal, Jordan Gadd
Performing Violence: The (Un)Reality Of War - Chris Burden, Edward Kienholz, Wafaa Bilal, Jordan Gadd
Pomona Senior Theses
I. Introduction II. Chris Burden III. Edward Kienholz IV. Wafaa Bilal V. Conclusion Appendix A: Images Appendix B: Bibliography
It's Important For Me To Get Good Light. Or "Things Which Are Happening", Elizabeth Ferguson
It's Important For Me To Get Good Light. Or "Things Which Are Happening", Elizabeth Ferguson
Pitzer Senior Theses
Artists' book utilizing cross disciplinary media.
Representaciones De Figuras Feministas En La Muestra Despierta!, Kathryn Lane
Representaciones De Figuras Feministas En La Muestra Despierta!, Kathryn Lane
Pitzer Senior Theses
Elizabeth Waltenburg es una artista contemporánea argentina. En su muestra, despierta!, las obras en óleo sobre tela representan a mujeres, niños y animales en fondos extraños y deprimidos. Ella utilize simbolismo de animales y figuras femeninas para discutir el feminismo actual. Ella trabaja en un tiempo complicado por el feminismo, el postfeminismo, la critica de ambos, y un sistema de comunicación global. Su trabajo marca una tendencia hecho por la confusión de todos estos movimientos. Esta tesis discute su trabajo en el contexto de la historia de representaciones de mujeres, de niños y de animales para llegar a una mejor …
La Belle Rêve, Nancy Macko
La Belle Rêve, Nancy Macko
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
Artist and academic Nancy Macko discusses her sabbatical residency in Brittany, France.
Seeing Gray: Whiteness And The Erasure Of Difference, Ken Gonzales-Day
Seeing Gray: Whiteness And The Erasure Of Difference, Ken Gonzales-Day
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
The author, a studio artist, discusses the ambivalent representation of whiteness in several works of contemporary art.
Analytical Photography: Portraiture, From The Index To The Epidermis, Ken Gonzales-Day
Analytical Photography: Portraiture, From The Index To The Epidermis, Ken Gonzales-Day
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
The current abundance of scholarship concerning the technological development of photography has coexisted with a proportionate absence of recent critical analysis of photographic images. Given photography's long-standing embrace of technological advances, even predating the portable camera or roll film, this article revisits some early uses of scientific photography in order to clarify the impact of digital technology on contemporary photographic practice. The author uses scientific photography and photographic archives as the groundwork for photographic experiments into what might be called analytical photography. This essay concludes with a reconsideration of the photographic portrait.
Choloborg: The Disappearance Of The Latino Body, Ken Gonzales-Day
Choloborg: The Disappearance Of The Latino Body, Ken Gonzales-Day
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
The author discusses body politics in contemporary latino/a visual culture.
Different Looks, Ken Gonzales-Day
Different Looks, Ken Gonzales-Day
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
In this essay from an exhibition catalog, the author discusses works by various artists in the exhibition within the context of the aesthetics of difference.