Mouthful Idol, Claudia Dishon

All Theses

In my work, I create an imaginative realm as a means to structure chaos. This fictional realm is a place to manifest my perceptions of the world. In alignment with my world view, the pieces exhibit multi-faceted sprays of information meant to explain a more rounded picture of reality. Mental clutter becomes visual clutter when realized in my prints. Recognizable objects, animals, foods, herbs, and written text are layered to form compositions that function abstractly at a distance. A closer inspection reveals identifiable forms within the layers of color and shape.
Haphazard imagery receives the same attention and support as …

Symbiosis., Jeri Allison

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The artist discusses her Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Symbiosis, hosted by the Natural History Museum in Gray, Tennessee, from May 1st, through August 1st 2008. The exhibit includes works produced during the artist's three years of study at East Tennessee State University.

The subject of the exhibition consists of drawings of the elephant's place in history through its relationship with humans. Topics explored include the elephant as victim, servant, god, prey, and ultimately as teacher. Discussion will also include artistic influences such as Sue Coe, Deborah Butterfield, Franz Marc, and Frank Noelker as well as theoretical influences by …

Casting A Net: Contemporary Drawing Practices And Strategies, Brian Fay

Other resources

Casting a Net: Contemporary Drawing Practices and Strategies is an overview of national and international drawing practices and considering these in relation to the work of John Beattie.

Nature Vs. Nurture, Renee' Noel Smith

LSU Master's Theses

My work utilizes the metaphor of the family garden gone wild to represent growing up in a difficult family environment. The plants struggle in an environment that turns the typical, quiet backyard garden into a chaotic jungle. This body of work illustrates a variety of printmaking techniques such as mezzotint, silkscreen, drawing, and etching. The vibration and saturation of intense colors create imaginary plants that are highly illusionistic. The troubled environment is represented by the nocturnal background.

Milestones / Miles’S Tones: A Coincidence, Brian Fay

Exhibition Catalogues

Milestones/Miles’s Tones: a Coincidence is a catalogue essay published in the 25^th. anniversary catalogue for Black Church Print Studio’s, Dublin.

Present Access., Garry D. Renfro

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The artist discusses his Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Present Access, hosted by The Carroll Reece Museum on the campus of East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, from April 2 through April 25, 2007. This exhibit contains works that span his four-year tenure in the graduate program and represent several iterations of the artist's exploration of the landscape as metaphor and discovery.

Subjects discussed explicate the development of thought and process leading to the pieces presented in this exhibition. Topics explored include the importance of form, material, media, research, personal history, experience, and memory. Also considered are the …

Finding Time: How It Is Made Visual Artists Newsletter, Brian Fay

Articles

FINDING TIME

Brian Fay outlines the processes and concepts underpinning his practice

Fiction Fix 05, Troy Puls, Vicki Winslow, Todd Kincaid, Christine Utz, Ann Marie Byrd, Mark Fields, Shane Horn, Joseph Derepentigny, Kristen Iannuzzi

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

On Island: Women Artists Of Monhegan, University Of New England Art Gallery

Exhibition Catalogues

On Island: Women Artists of Monhegan is the catalogue from the University of New England Art Gallery’s July 26 - September 23, 2007 exhibition featuring works by 36 women artists who capture the essence of Monhegan Island and its role in the history of American fine art. There is a powerful sense of place, from dramatic, swift changes in light, color and nuance, to giant cliffs, swirling tide pools, and rocks that come in all sizes and hues, as well as island life and people. Their art covers the most recent 50 years on an island that has attracted artists …

Fiction Fix 04, Melissa Milburn, Sarah Clarke-Stuart, Kristen Iannuzzi, Vanessa Wells, Nathan Holic, Joshua Kreis Mctiernan, Ron Perline, Tina Helvie, Gavin Lambert, Jamie Hughes, Tim Gilmore, April Fisher

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

Blood Work, Mack Gingles

LSU Master's Theses

The visual portion of BLOOD WORK is a record of my reconciliations with its parts: description based on the photograph, memory, and my concerns for abstraction. I am interested in the nuances of gesture as they convey meaning and evoke memory response. Though non-specific, the space surrounding the figures is emptied to accentuate their psychology. By adumbrating one reality and effacing another I attempt to transform the mundane into what I perceive as the uncanny.

A Tinker's Studio, Catherine L. Hudnall

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is meant to describe and explain a space in which one can imagine things necessary for making objects that wobble, squeak, clack, creak, crank in and out, open and close, light up, roll about and generally hurl themselves into creepy existence. It is also an endeavor to describe some objects having lately taken such a journey into being. These include (but are not limited to): a chess table for one, an examining table and tray, two workbenches, chessmen and women, creaky floorboards, stairs on wheels, a stool on wheels, and Monsters of various sizes and shapes.

Fiction Fix 03, Thelma Young, Tim Gilmore, Sarah Stuart-Clarke, Jeff Geloneck, Blake Mccorkle, David Jordan, M. J. Howe, Stephanie Ouellette, Laura Havice, Christopher Sylvester, April Fisher, Gavin Lambert

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

Push And Pull, Tessa Ann Mouton

LSU Master's Theses

“…motion means…passing through time and through space.” “Pushes and pulls seem to be the cause of motion.” - Richard Wolfson. “Push and Pull” is about exploring process. While trying to locate my form of expression and process, I rediscovered my mother’s form of expression and process – crochet. I decided in order to continue forward, I must explore the past.

True Image, Janet K. Link

LSU Master's Theses

A still-life is often the painted record of a complex arrangement of objects. My aim in making the visual portion of TRUE IMAGE is to turn this sort of still-life inside out. Rather than arranging a collection of objects and making a painted or drawn image of the set up, I made simple images of things and arranged them with actual objects into three larger tableaux. The subjects of the paintings and drawings are these: checkerboards, objects, portraits, and shadows. The subjects of the tableaux are work (LABOR), home (DOMUS), and church (ECCLESIA). Viewed as a whole the exhibition asks …

Fiction Fix 02, Sarah Howard, April E. Fisher, Danielle Dieger, Robert Orndorff, Thelma Young, Gavin Lamert, Jeff Geloneck, Tim Gilmore, Melissa Gollegly, Shannon Mcleish, Robert Panaro

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

Fiction Fix 01, Sarah Howard, Nate Eldon, Robert Orndorff, Shannon Mcleish, Darren Longley, Robert Panaro, Melissa Gollegly, M. J. Howe, Melissa Milburn, Amy Quincy

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

Drawing Of The Mind, Buddy Harper

LSU Master's Theses

The rules of drawing I have described are an outline to my method of working. It is to be used like the rules of a game. The thesis paper provides the viewer the basic parameters for looking at my work. The body of work is produced like two people playing a game of chess. I establish the rules and then I develop the work in an investigative manner.

Mixed Feelings, Hillary Mcmahan

LSU Master's Theses

My thesis exhibition, entitled "Mixed Feelings," consisted of mostly figurative paintings and drawings. In this body of work I attempted to use fragments of the figure, separately and in combination with various objects and creatures, to create visual equivalents for a range of emotional states.

Art: Andi Nufer, Andi Nufer

Inscape

No abstract provided.

About The Artists

Inscape

No abstract provided.

Words & #S, Museum Of Contemporary Art At Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The gallery guide discusses the exhibition Words and Numbers shown at Wright State University from April 7 through May 10, 1991. The exhibition focused on the combination of art and text.

Francis Cunningham: Painting And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Francis Cunningham: Painting and Drawing

March 14 to April 5, 1989

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

Realism is an attitude toward life that affirms the beauty and significance of the visible world. Realism starts outside with the surfaces of things and travels inward to their meaning. Everything in this process has to do with selection. What has the object told a particular artist about itself, about its relationship to other objects and to the surrounding space?

In life one takes in things at a glance, but the artist looks at an object for hours, weeks, months, even years. Premier coup painting …

Mark Rhodes/Ephraim Rubenstein: Sculpture, Painting, And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Mark Rhodes/Ephraim Rubenstein: Sculpture, Painting, and Drawing

November 29 to December 18, 1988

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

The art of Ephraim Rubenstein and Mark Rhodes is art about the human figure, born out of personal experience and nourished by the great tradition of the figure in western culture. Indeed, the persistence of the human form in art from prehistoric times into the 20th Century, demonstrates not only the infinite variety of interpretations and expressions possible through the body, but our consistent need for self-realization and re-creation through the figure. The particular pieces in this show convey a remarkable cumulative visual …

Janet Fish: Paintings And Drawings Since 1975, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Janet Fish: Paintings and Drawings Since 1975

September 10 to October 3, 1987

Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums

Introduction

The Marsh Gallery takes pride in opening its 1987-88 season with the first Virginia exhibition of paintings and drawings by Janet Fish, acknowledged master of the contemporary still life according to art critic Gerrit Henry.

While this exhibition is intended to emphasize her current work it is also slightly retrospective, including work dating from 1975 to 1987, so that the viewer will understand the progression as well as the increasing depth of the artist's oeuvre.

In the midst …

The Syracuse Scholar / Everson Museum Of Art Drawing National, John L. Sellers

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

No abstract provided.

Street Journals: An Exhibition Of Paintings And Drawings By Robert Birmelin, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Street Journals: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Robert Birmelin

September 5 to September 29, 1985

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

It is with great excitement and anticipation that the Marsh Gallery presents this exhibition of Robert Birmelin's work, STREET JOURNALS. We recognize his work as having a significant place in the tradition of art, and have seen the need to introduce the man and his art to the Richmond community. We eagerly await the reverberations from this event and the impact that Robert Birmelin will make on our students and colleagues.

Like Cezanne, Picasso, and Braque, Birmelin is …

John Baldessari, The New Museum, New York, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The wit, intelligence, irreverence, and breadth of knowledge manifest in John Baldessari's work have made it important to many others, artists and public alike. This is the first museum exhibition, however, to show in depth the work Baldessari has done over the past fifteen years.

When The New Museum learned that an exhibition of Baldessari's photographic works was being planned at the University Art Galleries at Wright State University, the two organizations decided to join forces. While the scope and nature of our respective exhibitions differed, we felt that by jointly sponsoring the catalog, more information about Baldessari's work could …

16 Projects / 4 Artists, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

During the spring and summer of 1975 Wright State University organized a cooperative workshop/exhibitions program with three other schools and, in 1976, received the support of the National Endowment for the Arts. The program consisted of sending four prominent contemporary artists to the four colleges and universities during the 1976-1977 academic year. The artists selected to participate in the program were Siah Armajani of Minneapolis, Larry Bell of Taos, Lloyd Hamrol of Santa Monica, and Pat Steir of New York, each of whom works in diverse media and materials, and all of whom represent a range of artistic and aesthetic …

The Art Institute Of Boston Course Catalog (1973), The Art Institute Of Boston

Art Institute of Boston (AIB) Course Catalogs

The Art Institute of Boston maintains, and always has maintained throughout the course of its long history, that the artist holds a unique position of responsibility in his society. Because the weight of his contribution is so widely felt in this age of the expanded media, the artist is expected to be not only innovator, but also arbitrator. The decisions which affect his life and his work influence a wide body of people who look to him for illumination.

Art cannot be taught as a development of certain visual talents separate from a larger awareness of life. The Art Institute …