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Full-Text Articles in Fine Arts
Constant Motion, Daniel Rowe
Constant Motion, Daniel Rowe
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis contains my writings and concept development, as it relates to personal history, time and animated art. This is explored through various methodologies, including short story and Zen meditative writing. As a companion to my recent thesis exhibition, this paper looks to make logical, emotional and spiritual connections between my art practice, ritualized cultural tropes and contemporary views of mortality.
My Mechanics Of Justification, Veronika Pausova
My Mechanics Of Justification, Veronika Pausova
Theses and Dissertations
This document examines the theory behind the process leading to my paintings, as well as the content of the images I use. The former will invoke romanticism, infinite possibilities, and the need for having certain parameters and flexible rules. The latter will talk about sentimentality and contemporary culture. I will explain the mechanics of justifying the choice of a particular way of painting: the push and pull between the loaded content of an image versus the language of painting itself.
Some Account Of The Art Of Photogenic Drawing, Joseph Minek
Some Account Of The Art Of Photogenic Drawing, Joseph Minek
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an overview of the processes and procedures used in the production of my artistic practice. In my work, I explore notions such as the ambiguity of the photographic image, what constitutes an image or object as photographic, and the unexplored possibilities of the medium through surface and mark making. In addition, I draw inspiration from artists Wolfgang Tillmans, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Marco Breuer as entrance points to my conceptual interests. For viewers, my work generates an internal dialogue about the limits of the photographic medium.
Forever Starts Now, Lior Modan
Forever Starts Now, Lior Modan
Theses and Dissertations
Moms as historical perspectives, abstraction and image making; Through stoves, swimwear and carpets. Then, one hope- That one-day history will become yours and mine.
Stalling Life, Leslie Rogers
Stalling Life, Leslie Rogers
Theses and Dissertations
Using a diagram, glossary, anecdotes, and first-person narrative histories, I explain how I use sculptural installation, image making, and serendipity to exploit the illogical to the point of being meaningful.
Whiff Of Black Ice, Alina Tenser
Whiff Of Black Ice, Alina Tenser
Theses and Dissertations
This document is a concentration of thoughts, peripheral and direct, that occurred around the making of my thesis exhibition at the Anderson Gallery, Whiff Of Black Ice. While these thoughts meekly occupy space on the following pages, I assure the reader that they are quite physical, even extending three-dimensionality to them. My awareness of their form and their containment within the inner space of the mind, which also extends to the body, becomes central to understanding their meaning and, finally, knowing them.
Reflections Of Self, Melissa Athey
Reflections Of Self, Melissa Athey
Theses and Dissertations
I vacillate between all extremes, beauty vs. ugly, internal vs. external, micro vs. macro. It is these disparate notions that inspire what I make. We cannot ever see ourselves objectively, but does that mean we shouldn’t try? This thesis is my attempt to dissect what I created in my 2 years at Virginia Commonwealth University, my exploration of the illness within and the psychological nature of how we go about hiding our insecurities.
Artist Alien Ghost Juggler: Performance Of “Troilus And Cressida” As Graduate Thesis, Vladislav Smolkin
Artist Alien Ghost Juggler: Performance Of “Troilus And Cressida” As Graduate Thesis, Vladislav Smolkin
Theses and Dissertations
Through an analysis of my adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida”, I will deconstruct the artist’s studio within an institution as a paradoxical heterotopic space.
Warm Compression – Damp Gestures, Melanie Mclain
Warm Compression – Damp Gestures, Melanie Mclain
Theses and Dissertations
Thoughts on vulnerability, emotions, social interaction, self-awareness, skin, touching, bodily functions, and the combination of all these ideas into a confined space filled with heat and humidity just enough to leave you feeling damp and perhaps a bit sore.
You Can Eat Off The Counter I Wiped It Down This Morning, Jessica Kain
You Can Eat Off The Counter I Wiped It Down This Morning, Jessica Kain
Theses and Dissertations
Alternative to meeting a calculus of quality roundness and curves are everywhere. Peaches, pinks, browns, ochres, greens. Klein Blue. --------- An experiment like a party; the hows and whys of picking bedfellows yields a list of possibilities— iterations of better, advantages in flesh volume. Inventory whittled down to give us stories, aspirations, allegiances. --------- Just to see it and touch it. Build in different ways, depending. Grow, cover, carve, cast—let for flexibility. Limbs in one direction sawed off, turned round, glued back on. If it looks like two more ways of how I want it there’s more work to be …
In Tub And Wig Out, Ryan Crowley
In Tub And Wig Out, Ryan Crowley
Theses and Dissertations
Using short stories, descriptions of objects and thoughts on process, I aim to establish a few ideas about the way I see and think through making in the studio.
Auto Tune, Dana Ollestad
Auto Tune, Dana Ollestad
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an overview of the source material, methodologies, artistic influences, and conceptual decisions that inform my artwork and characterize my art practice. Utilizing participation (audience, community, viewer), I engineer experiences and encounters for the general public. Whether through directed physical interaction or implicit reaction, I create open-ended situations or environments that I may influence, but not fully control. The democratic cede of authorial control, as well as the heightened risk and unpredictably in my work, instigates a more positive, non-hierarchical social model in which every viewer is an “author,” who produces content and communication signals, and has a …
Freedom Of Interpretation, Georgi Ivanov
Freedom Of Interpretation, Georgi Ivanov
Theses and Dissertations
The photographic series Ideal Cities that I started in 2011 is inspired by the conflict between my idea of the “west” and my evolving experience in the United States. What struck me was the popularity of what I see as model experience – a spatial experience controlled by the Spectacle. In the terms of the Situationist International and its most prominent figure Guy Debord, the Spectacle is the collapse of reality into the streams of images, products and activities sanctioned by centralized monopolist business or state bureaucracy. Thus, personal experience is replaced with preconceived notions, which control the way people …
White Sands, Laura Vitale
White Sands, Laura Vitale
Theses and Dissertations
I’ve constructed a narrative thread that connects experiences, events, and artworks made during my time in graduate school. This narrative, which has the perspective of time, betrays the firsthand experience of wayfaring through the projects and places I describe. The narrative loosens as it approaches the present moment. Rather than to arrive at any conclusions, my goal for creating this narrative is to understand a tension between expectations: of systematic rationality and subjective knowledge, of play and display. I understand that my work productively fails to r-r-resolve contradictions about the way things are.
Display, Baldwin Amanda
Display, Baldwin Amanda
Theses and Dissertations
I will discuss six art works that have a range of characteristics, but can all be unified through the notion of surface, both physically and conceptually. I will investigate how ideas of taste, assumption, collage, façade, figure/ground, display and value can all be seen through this lens. Much significance and symbolism is imbued in such a thin layer and I am actively aware of this as I work. The way I construct and render my subjects and the space in which they reside determines how they are viewed, perceived, considered, and judged by others.
The Dragons In Your Dreams, Jacquelyn Walther
The Dragons In Your Dreams, Jacquelyn Walther
Theses and Dissertations
What if every craving that you ever felt stayed with you forever? Suppose facades couldn’t exist, and what should only be the deepest, densest core of a desire was formed into a mass, a body. Its will matching yours in its physical presence. I make creatures that are embodiments of emotions. In this study I mainly focus on desires and inhibitions surrounding romance. I explore anatomical structures and how material make-up can directly reflect emotional character. In this exploration, the materiality of clay allows for a thorough manipulation of the composition of the creatures. In this I am also able …
Reflections On Sexuality, Sensuality, And Painting, Loie Hollowell
Reflections On Sexuality, Sensuality, And Painting, Loie Hollowell
Theses and Dissertations
The written component of my thesis will take the form of an extended artist statement in which I discuss all six paintings included in my thesis exhibition. A major theme of my work is sexuality, specifically female sexuality. This thesis will begin by looking at the three miniature paintings that spearheaded the investigation of this theme. I will examine the generalized and personal feminist symbolism that these paintings contain. The two works that followed the miniatures are depictions of sexual interactions between my husband and myself. I will explain the significance of my depictions and relate them to the work …
Reckless Hope, Jesse Potts
Reckless Hope, Jesse Potts
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is an approximation of several years spent in the studio. It represents an equitable exercise of memory and speculation.
The Three Principles (For -2012), Nikolai Noel
The Three Principles (For -2012), Nikolai Noel
Theses and Dissertations
Utilizing alchemy as an allegory for the political, social, cultural history and present of the Caribbean, I discuss critical themes, approaches, methodologies their development, application and evidence in my thinking and art practice.
But From This Moment On We Know Nothing, Jacob Vincent
But From This Moment On We Know Nothing, Jacob Vincent
Theses and Dissertations
As a student enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Craft/Material Studies' Master of Fine Arts Graduate Degree program, Jacob A. Vincent's sole obligation to the world for the time period beginning in September of 2010 and continuing through April of 2012 was to dwell on things, and to eventually produce something tangible as a result. Having charged himself with the burden of indulging in the task of re-contextualizing all of existence, and ensuring that his peers and professors knew how vitally important that is, this thesis outlines select aspects of his research methodologies and provides a glimpse into the …
Score For The Big Bang: The Universe As Voice, Ander Mikalson
Score For The Big Bang: The Universe As Voice, Ander Mikalson
Theses and Dissertations
The thesis is a multimedia document, including a documentary video and audio recordings, that catalogues and unpacks the cross-disciplinary project Score for the Big Bang. On April 13, 2012, thirty-six vocalists sang the sound of the Big Bang in a historic church in downtown Richmond. For this project I worked with an astronomer, composer, choral director and organist to translate the primordial sound into musical notation. This is the universe as voice, through humans, recreating what we have come to understand was present at its birth.
Between Nothingness And Spectacle, Mayme Donsker
Between Nothingness And Spectacle, Mayme Donsker
Theses and Dissertations
Looking closely at anonymous subjects in found photographs to jog collective memories and point at gestures, bodily traces of complexity, connectedness or just a quiet moment where nothing monumental is really happening; a pause for distance, a pause for discernment, there is no real difference between nothingness and spectacle.
Teller Machine, Reid Ramirez
Teller Machine, Reid Ramirez
Theses and Dissertations
This document examines the work in my MFA thesis exhibition. The objects in that installation address specific socio-aesthetic sites of class and power. The personal and cultural narratives examined here further explain the objects’ symbolic potential.
Dismemory: On History, The Southern Imaginary, And Abusing The Visual Record, Matthew Pendleton Shelton
Dismemory: On History, The Southern Imaginary, And Abusing The Visual Record, Matthew Pendleton Shelton
Theses and Dissertations
Using the literary device of a fictional interview between the artist and a sympathetic intellectual, I explore concepts relating to subjectivity, pedagogy, memory, “Southernness,” whiteness, the deceptive nature of images, social justice, and 20th century art as they relate to a contemporary artistic practice.
Endure, Jacob Copetillo
Endure, Jacob Copetillo
Theses and Dissertations
My thesis is an account of my research on Deconstruction as it relates to family structure and the making of the objects leading to, and consisting of, the work shown in the installation, Endure. The work is a product of my intercessory labor to make sense of the breakage within family structure. Through forced brokenness, domestic imagery, and intercessory reconstruction, I am building a memorial that expresses my concern with deconstruction and hope for reconciliation.
Bad Infinity (Or) Some Examples Of Displacement, Andrew Meerow
Bad Infinity (Or) Some Examples Of Displacement, Andrew Meerow
Theses and Dissertations
The following thesis is comprised of an edited interview between Andrew Meerow and an undisclosed questioner in which the two discuss Meerow’s visual thesis, a body of paintings titled “Some Examples of Displacement.” The interview addresses the production of art and value as Meerow's primary subject, a reflexive position that absorbs qualitative interpretation in either direction. In keeping with the intentions of the artwork, the interview is re-organized, censored, and collaged such that the discussion itself is addressed not as a procedure of truth, but as a performative gesture toward that pursuit.
Thin Time, Jonathan Benjamin
Thin Time, Jonathan Benjamin
Theses and Dissertations
THIN TIME by Jonathan Benjamin, MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012. Major Director: Corin Hewitt, Assistant Professor, Department of Sculpture + Extended Media This thesis is an honest attempt to put language to a non-lingual practice. It describes my studio process, my thoughts on materials and surface, and outlines some of the images and things out in the world that inform my work.
Light Affect, Brandon Irwin
Light Affect, Brandon Irwin
Theses and Dissertations
My faith is an important factor in my art making. I believe the ability to create is endowed by an original Creator. My work continues this initial creative legacy while confronting viewers with a storyline of beauty, truth, justice, and redemption. I am a realist oil painter devoted to portraiture and figurative work. Human form, gesture, and facial expression provide inexhaustible subject matter. I depict narratives from antiquity to the present day. Some of my paintings contain spiritual elements based on biblical writings presented in a contemporary context. I work from photos that I take of family, friends, and strangers …
Homage To Everyday People, Sang Ja Chun
Homage To Everyday People, Sang Ja Chun
Theses and Dissertations
Influenced by an ever-growing sense of alienation with my homeland, I have been determined to discover through my art practice an ability to challenge conventional notions of home, identity, communication and miscommunication. Exploring these themes, I became increasingly aware of the parallels between everyday life and art practice. By creatively connecting with a diverse amount of local people and their communities, I fulfilled desires to discover a sense of belonging and generated opportunities for others to break through traditional social boundaries and roles.
Alghe Mist, Jeffrey Kenney
Alghe Mist, Jeffrey Kenney
Theses and Dissertations
This is an overview of the source material, methodologies, artistic influences, and conceptual decisions that inform the sculptural and the photographic means of production that characterize my art practice. Research topics include model-making, the indexical relationship of the photograph and object, and a brief phenomenology of accidents, alchemy, and ambivalence in relation to specific artworks.