Browsing by Subject "Abstraction"

Now showing 1 - 4 of 4
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    An Architectural Imaginary
    (2014-05-20) Shopoff, Marna; Horvath, Robert
    My work is a vehicle to investigate the perceptual intimacy I find within public spaces. Blending contemporary with classical approaches to art and spatial relationships, I use the idea of perception as a function of human experience, place and personal memory. I explore compositional, personal and experiential connections while creating an invitation for the viewer to do the same. A paradox exists within the material realm. I identify with who I am through the spaces I inhabit and feel as if my body can extend its presence into the built environment. My artwork becomes a lens that reveals the temporality of my experiences. Using architecture and abstraction as a philosophical approach in my paintings, architecture becomes both a visual bridge between inside and out, and a passageway of self-reflection. Abstraction is a way to move through a space. My work explores how art can become a space by its interaction with the environment and how the space can become the artwork. I conceptualize ideas relating to place identity and my lived experiences within the built environment. I view the world in a particular way because of the context in which I have experienced it: the architecture, spatial politics, personal relationships, public and private intimate spaces. I am interested in the interpretation of and the interactions with the spaces that surround me: what memories or feelings do these spaces spark and what sort of energy do they project? Likewise, I am interested in the roles that art plays in culture, architecture, and the site-specificity of spatial relationships that are formed by these interactions. My work explores whether, through art, we can share our individual perceptions, whether someone can access and experience a new view of the world through my artwork and how I can create a new space via my art.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    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.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Racey Bear's Legacy: Metaphor as a Bridge to Children's Understanding and Expression of Abstract Concepts
    (2010-07-19T20:04:45Z) Worthington, Dennis Paul; Shepherd, Susan Carol; DiCamilla, Frederick J.; Eller, Jonathan R., 1952-
    Over the course of five weeks, three children were engaged in various exercises involving the observance and creation of metaphors. Before and after the exercises, the children were asked a series of questions designed to determine their understanding of and ability to express their understanding of five abstract concepts. It was found that working with metaphor enhanced their abilities to grasp the concepts, in various and surprising ways. It was also found that their abilities to express their understanding was enhanced subtly.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Redefining Photography
    (2015) Di, Sun; Goodine, Linda Adele
    A major part of my work is to study the fundamentals of photography through photography, video, installation, and sculpture. The study of a photograph is always a starting point. A photograph is an object, which carries chemicals or pixels. And the wrinkles on the paper are as important as the content information.