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Appalachian Spring, Kerry Adkins, Kimberly Barker, Jason Barker, Ron Davis, Ashley Doscher, Ann Dorsey, Laura Haywood, Susan Hawkins, Kendrick Holbrook, Tanisha Johnson, Amanda Keathley, Megan D. Lindsey, Robbie Lounsberry, Ryan Newberry, Kellie Jo Ramey, Autumn Reed, Whitney Sibcy, Deborah Slone, Josh Spencer, Judith Baca

Morehead State University Art Collection

A large mural that was created by 19 studio art and education students in 2009. Renowned Latina artist Judith Baca worked alongside the students.

Uncommon Threads, Doris Cacoilo, Karen Ciaramella, Nick Deford, Julie Floersch, Colleen Gutwein, Ryan Higgins, Einat Imber, Darren Jones, Michelle Loughlin, Travis Martin, Megan Piontkowski, Courtney Puckett, Claudia Sbrissa, Katie Truk, Katherine M. Webb

Exhibition Catalogs

Catalog for the exhibition Uncommon Threads held at the Seton Hall University Walsh Gallery, November 2 - December 11, 2009. Curated by Jeanne Brasile and Howard Hurst. Includes an essay by Jeanne Brasile and Howard Hurst. Includes color illustrations.

School Play, Ronan Mccrea

Exhibitions

School Play was the outcome of a public art commission associated with the construction of a new school building for a state primary school, catering for children from ages 4 – 12. School Play consists of two main elements: a series of thirty colour photographs and a permanent design for a school play yard consisting of a series of graphic set of circles and arcs applied in various colours onto the tarmac and also adjacent footpaths and car park. This element of the work has a dual function: primarily as utilitarian design– acting as boundaries and markings for un-prescribed play …

The Brilliant Line, Emily Peters, Evelyn Lincoln, Andrew S. Raftery

Books

Renaissance engravings are objects of exquisite beauty and incomparable intricacy that are composed entirely of lines. Artists began using this intaglio process in Europe as early as 1430. This captivating catalogue focuses on the height of the medium, from 1480 to 1650, when engravers made dramatic and rapid visual changes to engraving technique as they responded to the demands of reproducing artworks in other media. The Brilliant Line follows these visual transformations and offers new insight into the special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) engravers. The three essays discuss how engraving’s restrictive materials and the …

Inscape 2009, Morehead State University

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The 2009 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Rhythm In Relief, Lavon Williams, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2009 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Lavon Williams.

Fan Letter, Spring/Summer 2009, Illinois State University, College Of Fine Arts

FAN Letter

Newsletter of the College of Fine Arts

Baseball Hat Glove, Cain Montgomery

The Messenger

No abstract provided.

Pathos, Winter 2009, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Nataliya Pirumova

Issue 8

Jeff Koons: In His Space, Erica Frank

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

Space, a major visual element, can be examined in depth in Jeff Koons’s artwork. Koons produces art in different series and each series contains numerous pieces. The appendages of the mechanical devices, a major element of space in the early series, accentuate the sexuality present in Koons’s art, as well as the surface quality and materials used in all the series. Koons’s obsession with perfection is what generates the flawless exteriors making the surface material void of human touch and elevating the sometimes kitsch subjects of the pieces. Koons uses stainless steel, a relatively inexpensive material associated with manufactured goods …

Mfa09 (Mfa 2009), Sam Fox School Of Design & Visual Arts, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Carmon Colangelo, Patricia J. Olynyk, Stephanie Barenz, Carolyn Dawn Bendel, Jacob Cruzen, Rachel Ann Dennis, Bryan Eaton, Maya Escobar, Meredith Foster, Morgan Gehris, Gina Grafos, Stephen Hoskins, Amelia Jones, Hye Young Kim, Anne Lindberg, Goran Maric, Kelda Martensen, Erica L. Millspaugh, Carianne Noga, Joel Parker, Rebecca C. Potts, Shannon Randol, Elaine Rickles, Michael Kenneth Smith, Dan Solberg, Natalie Toney, Glenn Tramantano, Kathryn Trout, J. Taylor Wallace

Books and Monographs

Catalogue of a culminating student exhibition held at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in 2009. Content includes A new paradigm / Carmon Colangelo -- Evolving practices / Patricia Olynyk -- Stephanie Barenz -- Carolyn Dawn Bendel -- Jacob Cruzen -- Rachel Ann Dennis -- Bryan Eaton -- Maya Escobar -- Meredith Foster -- Morgan Gehris -- Gina Grafos -- Stephen Hoskins -- Amelia Jones -- Hye Young Kim -- Anne Lindberg -- Goran Maric -- Kelda Martensen -- Erica L. Millspaugh -- Carianne Noga -- Joel Parker -- Rebecca C. Potts -- Shannon Randol -- Elaine Rickles -- Michael …

Russian Icons And American Money, 1928-1938, Wendy Salmond

Art Faculty Articles and Research

The article explores the marketing tactics and consumer expectations with regards to icons released in the street markets and provincial cities of Soviet Russia and acquired by American collectors from 1928-1938. These icons, including those from Byzantium in the tenth century, were seen as cultural commodities during the Russian revolution and the subsequent socialist construction. The Soviet apparatus Antikvariat was tasked with appraising the icon collections held by the Gosmuzeifond or the State Museum Reserve for exports.

Red Roses, Bret Stern

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Cat Mouth, Nergess Taheri

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Hana, Ish Aberion

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

A Shared Silence, Jessica Alice Mowers

LSU Master's Theses

I took a journey home to Western New York and turned the camera’s lens on both my family and myself. 

 This thesis is a story about my family and me. I photographed my family to confront the tragic car accident that took my brother’s life and my mom’s sanity. I also acknowledged the present state of my family with these photographs by exploring the root of many of my fears and anxieties that stem from the tense and stressful atmosphere within my home as a result of this car accident.

Markets Rising, Philip Bastian

LSU Master's Theses

Markets Rising is a thesis that incorporates video and the Internet to communicate with viewers, engage them, and inform them of the socially relevant topic of the 2007+ economic crisis. I intend to visually interpret the crisis in an artistic and accurate manner.

My Journey: Eight Thousand Miles Of Clouds And Moon, Frances D. Hu

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis explains the thoughts behind the body of art work that the artist produced for the MFA program. These three large paintings (72"x40") will lead viewers through a seventy-year-old woman's personal journey from the East to the West. The paintings display compositions in a bio-epic representation of traditional oil on canvas. The thesis not only expresses the artist's thoughts through formal means, but also the manner by which the emotions evolved.

The Messenger, Spring 2009

The Messenger

No abstract provided.

Everyday, Jill Tucker Moore

LSU Master's Theses

In our everyday lives we are bombarded with thousands, even millions, of images. Suffering information overload, we filter out the vast majority of these impressions – the person we pass on the street or sitting in the car next to us at a stop light. We only ‘see’ those people, places and things that ‘matter’, all else becomes ‘noise’; filtered into the background of consciousness – vaguely familiar, yet simultaneously foreign, creating a ‘manageable paradigm’ or construct of the world we inhabit. I take photographic portraits every day. Not of the ‘important’ in my life, but the nondescript, often overlooked …

Recollections Of Paradise Lost, Japheth Alan Storlie

LSU Master's Theses

Recollections of Paradise Lost is both a memoir and a fictitious account. While the images in this series are based on actual people and events from my childhood, they are nonetheless implied narratives. Through the employment of universal symbols of childhood nostalgia such as tricycles, tire swings, toys, etc., these photographs are intended to implore the viewer to make connections with their own pasts. These narratives are meant to captivate and enchant and at the same time, disturb and haunt. Ultimately, the objective is for the audience to reconsider and re-experience the joys, fears, losses and traumas associated with childhood …

Building Codes: Mapping Technology And Tradition, James David West

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis examines the crossroads between printmaking and digital technology as our culture shifts towards a more digital media focused existence. As technology shifts art-making more and more away from the analog creation process towards a more digitally mediated one, printmaking’s history stands out among other traditional mediums as well suited to embrace the transition whole-heartedly. By using the analogies of the matrix, the map, and the building, this body of work creates a bridge from the historical and time-tested approaches of printmaking towards the future of the art form; a chimera of technology and tradition.

Yours, Mine, & Ours, Mallory Lynn Feltz

LSU Master's Theses

Yours, Mine, & Ours utilizes found object assemblage, textiles, art multiples, and installation to present the theme of discovering personal identity through collecting, ownership, affiliations, cultural context, and transformation. This work presents to viewers a tactile experience to be investigated, touched, and transferred to their own lives. Centered on domesticity, the familiar and ordinary becomes transformed through labor-intensive processes into unique and personal works of art. Viewer participation, in all aspects of the making process, emphasizes the universal human experience of searching for comprehension of our culture. Each artwork is a metaphor for this search and how we are constantly …

Accumulation, Jennifer Terbieten Mayer

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis is based on the accumulation of old objects found or given to me within the past year. Many are everyday general items that are considered to no longer have a purpose because they are now rusty, used and worn. This thesis is about the search to uncover my infatuation for these objects, as well as, transmit to the audience their aesthetic beauty that generates a similar appreciation.

Moppet*Sense, Tyler Rochelle Mackie

LSU Master's Theses

Moppet*Sense is a hybrid collaboration between my adult self and a fictionalized version of me as a young girl, or moppet. Through use of craft, textiles, sound, light, color and narrative the work describes a space where both woman and moppet can join to engage with one another in a playful exchange of knowledge and experience. Saturated hues, exaggerated scale and a playful approach to the handicrafts offer the viewer an overwhelming, hyper-realistic experience of girlhood and play, which they can each physically explore and navigate throughout. The work refers to the nostalgic and domestic through its employment of familiar …

The Expedition, Shawn Quincy Foreman

LSU Master's Theses

I want my audience to experience awe. I use this to express my view on the argument of reality. Can reality truly be known? I further explain the use of nontraditional and traditional painting techniques to produce my paintings and drawings. My thesis entitled “The Expedition” is an abbreviated journey through my life.

Savannah, Georgia By The Pier, Charles Cevallos

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Flamingo, Nergess Taheri

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Untitled, Grace Cox

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Figure Study, Grace Cox

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.