Herron School of Art and Design

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Herron School of Art and Design's mission is to provide professional education in the visual and music arts for degree-seeking students and offer opportunities for creative exploration for the broader community.

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Browsing Herron School of Art and Design by Author "Baker, Lesley"

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    An:Other
    (2018) Alderson, Nicole; Nordgulen, Eric; Baker, Lesley; Kinsman, Patrick
    Otherness comes in many forms: it is a profound awareness of the metaphorical and physical space between, whether that space is the distance between two people, a person and the world they live in, or the perceived self and the internal self. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas wrote extensively on the notion of the Other throughout his career, and my work is a response to these ideas. For Levinas, the mask was the veil that is put on and becomes motionless and expressionless as whatever within us that makes us recognizable takes leave. Personally, I believe that this mask is not a single one but many diverse and evolving disguises we create, mold, and replace as we travel along the continuum of life. The idea of the mask is the way I choose to represent and recognize the fluidity of my own identity. The mask I display at any given moment, consciously or unconsciously, is dependent upon both situation and company. Through the metaphor of the mask, I explore the intensity of emotion brought on by a questioning of identity and a sense of Otherness. The emotion I'm most interested in during this process is contemplative melancholy. I'm attracted to the sadness and the darkness or the empty searching in people because it's an inherent fact of life and its presence in the world makes me feel alive as it gives me something to contrast the more uplifting or life affirming moments against. In my work I aim to bring to light the pervasiveness of the feelings of Otherness and malaise as deeply relatable truths of human condition.
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    Arsenal
    (2018) Carroll, Brenna; Jefferson, Corey; Baker, Lesley; Robertson, Jean
    Traumatic experience inspires the human drive for expression. Survivors carry the memory of trauma with them throughout their lives while they struggle to comprehend its impact. They maintain a fragile stability as their capacity to more forward is challenged and their perception of the world around them is altered. The force of memory compels those who have survived a traumatic event to build a defensive arsenal and to search for and to convey an understanding of their experience. My minimalist abstract ceramic sculpture examines the incidence of trauma and explores the transference of concepts and emotions associated with its effects.
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    BLDG
    (2018) Boll, Greg; Hudnall, Katie; Furqueron, Reagan; Baker, Lesley
    BLDG is a concept - a group of parameters, which create an internal logic. It is a system, in the loosest sense of the word; it is just rigid enough to be productive, but open-ended and flexible enough that a variety of artistic responses and readings are possible. Drawing on numerous disciplines, both artistic and not, it establishes a framework for producing assemblages from a minimal palette of readymade construction materials. BLDG is momentarily self-contained and self-organized. But, references to the world outside itself keep the works from feelings insular and allow new connections to be made between its source disciplines. While markedly different in form, BLDG is the synthesis of ideas about process, space, material, structure, and the object, explored in the works preceding it. Though invested in the assemblages it produces, BLDG is far more interested in, and directed toward, the ideas which these constructions advance. To probe and develop these ideas further, it embraces the ephemeral; the objects created are temporary embodiments of the ideas it promotes. Their provisional nature expresses a position of between-ness. Between noun and verb, object and idea; not necessarily thing, yet not solely action. Between temporary and permanent, no longer physically present, but as an idea easily reconstructed; momentarily static, yet forever changing. Between disciplines - specifically architecture, construction, furniture, design, drawing, sculpture - pulling them into conversation with each other in new ways. Between simplicity and complexity, minimal in material, but maximal in action. Between direction and improvisation. Between stability and collapse, embracing a precariousness that produces uncertainty and unveils the process to the viewer. Between start and end, one part of an evolving continuum reconfiguring ideas from past works to test and develop for future works.
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    Ceragami
    (2016) Patel, Mona; Jefferson, Corey; Baker, Lesley; Giddings, Anita
    Ceramics is one of the oldest mediums of creating works of art over the past centuries; however there has been a significant improvement and advancements towards creating different forms with it. I intend to capture the outcomes of the interdependent qualities of these materials. As the work is a combination of ceramics and Origami, I originated the term 'Ceragami'.
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    PERSONAL PROSTHESIS
    (2010-05) Ross, Edward; Tennant, Phil; Robinson, Cory; Baker, Lesley
    There is truth and inherent beauty in incomplete thoughts and half lived ideas. Muddling through the nature of aesthetics is enough to support multiple bodies of work. Add to that a rich historical tradition based in craft, and you will find not only a complex set of ideas and contradictions, but also a sense of pride mixed with resentment. At the heart of the matter, creativity and curiosity remain the main motivational factors for approaching each day with a desire to make and to work with ones hands.
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    Pregnant Thoughts
    (2018) VanderHorck, Ruth; Baker, Lesley
    My thesis work explores pregnancy as a lived experience with deep cultural connotations. It looks at aspects of how pregnancy feels and is experienced differently depending on circumstances and perspective. This research uses the pregnant female body to explore issues of difference. The work seeks to create a dialogue with the viewer on issues that are central to resolving inequality in society. Pregnancy, childbirth, childcare, and the necessary cultural support are the focus of the fourth wave of the women’s movement and its continuing push for equity and justice.
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    untitled: color body
    (2018) Tesmer, Casey; Baker, Lesley
    My research poses questions to the audience of how people see color on a body, what subconscious preconceptions that comes packaged with, and the ties of those preconceptions to American culture and how that might affect people's actions in society.