Browsing by Subject "Installation"

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    Adaptability
    (2018) Fox, Hannah; Hudnall, Katie
    At the core of humanity is a driving force to create and change our environments to better suit our liking. In this century, the need fo hand-making in the developed world is becoming obsolete. As privileged Americans we no longer need to make utilitarian objects using these processes to stay warm or even to survive. Everything we "need" is mass produced in factories we will never visit, by machines most of us could not even begin to operate or comprehend. The most abundant of these commodities are made from plastic. An entirely unnatural and man-made material, plastic is used an discarded at a rate unmatched by almost any other substance. My thesis work utilizes recycled material, specifically polypropylene biohazard bags, to identify the destructive realities of human waste and consumption in contemporary society. By confronting viewers with grotesque overwhelming forms of melted plastic the work is a rumination on human adaptation to technologically-driven wasteful consumerist life in the 21st century.
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    The Big Dark
    (2013-05) Hoefle, Michael; Goodine, Linda Adele
    It was just about five years ago that I started off on the journey that is now coming to an end. I was unhappily working away in the commercial photo industry as a digital technician and second shooter. Not a bad gig for a young man. I was making decent money, got to do a lot of traveling, and had the freedom of being a freelancer. But there was something big missing. This supposedly "creative" job I had was a farce. I did nothing creative; it was just the opposite. I was working in a factory pumping out the same image day after day. The majority of my time was spent retouching dust spots off of gray and white backgrounds, fixing flyaway hairs from models heads, and removing blemishes from their skin. This was a far cry from the magic that got me interested in photography when I was sixteen. After much thought, I quit the photo industry and devised a plan. I would go back to school to finish my bachelors, than apply to grad school and get my masters degree in studio art. I would make a new life in art and academia. I had decided I would become an artist/educator. And so I was off in search of creativity and knowledge; off in search of illumination.
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    drift
    (2016) Wittman, Priya; Winship, Andrew
    Through making, observing and responding to my art I maintain a constant cycle of question development and exploration of the infinite answers to these questions. The most important questions concern human existence: Where does a person begin, and where do they end? When do I occur, and when do I stop occurring? What makes existence meaningful or meaningless? The processes of making, observing, and thinking about art provide me with a flexible framework in which I can conduct investigations into these questions.
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    entwine
    (2017) Bielicki, Kevin; Hull, Greg
    Kevin Bielicki's work investigates intersections and boundaries between painting and sculpture. His work often exists on the wall, but maintains a visual and physical connection to the space occupied by the viewer. Compositionally, his ribbon-like forms use repetition as a method of expressing movement and the passage of time. The modular nature of these pieces allows them to be reinstalled in different configurations that respond to each new space they occupy. Kevin relates this method of working with something similar to gestural painting in abstract expressionism. He also sees these works as organic responses to the spaces his work inhabits. Drawing from this personal experience working with Bonsai, he imagines the qualities of each space influencing the growth and composition his sculptural forms take.
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    Fighting Powers
    (2021) Dobouni, Leena; Winship, Andrew
    Fighting Powers analyzes Leena Dobouni’s body of installation artwork as it relates to concepts of socio-political imbalance between the Middle East and Western powers. The West’s systemic degradation of the Middle East is examined through the theories of the post-colonial / imperial gaze, psychological myopia and social dominance theory. The thesis poses that historical events during the early 20th century set the stage for the current rapport that the West has with the Middle East. T. E. Lawrence, Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot are three main players in the instigation of the inequitable relations between the West and the Middle East. Investigation of these ideas and events support the presented viewpoint that socio-structural marginalization of the “other” in Western communities is irrefutable and that the idea of the “lesser” is born out of “othering." Dobouni’s unique experiences as a Muslim of mixed Iraqi-American heritage in the Western and imperial gaze has allowed her to observe distinct narratives of political tension between the two sides of her upbringing.
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    Fracked Prospects
    (2017) Harney, Tarja; Setser, Meredith
    My work is responding to social issues and their negative effects onto the environment. Bringing attention to the effects of hydraulic fracturing and other social issues I am voicing my concern and searching for a dialogue to emerge. I reveal the dangers hidden by the beauty of false truths of corporations that are the cause of environmental issues.
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    Installation as a Sensory Vessel
    (2017) Sciore-Jones, Elizabeth J.; Winship, Andrew
    The tectonic plates of earth are in constant movement, floating on magma. The earth cracks and presses, creating mountain ranges and valleys. Water rushes in filling the crevasses, changing jagged bedrock into smooth curves, turning the seabed into a dry salt covered desert. The shift of the earth can be felt and the object-hood of a mountain range cannot be denied. Our origins are buried deep in the earth, creating a relationship between the self and the flesh of existence. The sensing matter of humanity is apodictic; confirmation is received from the nervous system as it interacts with primal environments, symbols, textures, and sounds. This information is processed phenomenologically, shaping how we think, communicate, and develop. As our contemporary minds grow further away from our intuition, we must look to the roots of our origin stories and how they merge withour modern sense of the sublime. I connect our contemporary phenomenological awareness to the primal origins of Earth, and humanity by utilizing video mapping, sound, sculptural paper-making and installation. Through this connection, I create sensory experiences to increase the viewer's awareness to their physical body and its causation.
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    Longing For More Time
    (2014) Stoffer, Bridgit; Winship, Andrew
    My drawings and installations intertwine creating visual poems that allow my audience to view my inner world through shared experience and invites them to consider moments of honest vulnerability exposed in the quiet subtlety of what they witness. My narrative is always the starting point while I reflect upon and deepen an understanding of: the impact and resilience on seen and unseen realties, trying to rebuild out of brokenness, and our longing to preserve something lost. My work explores how one negative act can provoke determination and resolve. Through process and material exploration I’ve created ways that allow my art, much like an individual, to find a way to not simply endure, but navigate a path to thrive in the grim environments I create. Time is my true medium as I consider: temporality, lifespan, evolution and preservation. I use material and process to establish a passage of time so that I may reveal the way we hold on to things that are falling apart around us. I'm interested in making ephemeral objects that encapsulate a moment, holding it in place to somehow preserve something that would otherwise be lost even though they should not and cannot last. I expose this loss and our need to preserve what we can while holding on to the preciousness of the time we have that isn’t yet gone.
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    Some Words
    (2017) Lan, Yuzhi; Petranek, Stefan
    This paper is a little journey in exploring various themes through my art work. From transformation and consciousness to action and inaction; from material and immaterial to permanence and impermanence; from primary force, intuition to language, Being and nothingness. It reflects my philosophical background in Taoism and Zen, and reveals some basic concepts of my art work. Being is art, art is about Being, and the living process is the real language. Further on, the paper also relates the intuition, simple Being and meditative Being of my work to the healing function and shamanism tradition of art.