Browsing by Subject "Painting and drawing"

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    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.
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    Inter-­
    (2015) Tardie, Jacqueline; Agha, Anila
    Landscape describes the natural world, but more importantly, it provides a sense of place and belonging when it is regarded as animate, and not simply dead matter that’s purpose is to get you from one geographical location to the next. One way to get to this place of relationship is to engage the body – to move beyond the seen to the felt and to listen closely to all that is shared in that silence.
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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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    This Isn’t Even My Final Form
    (2015) Love, Jon; Potter, William
    You Are Amid Waves …but lurching towards a coast finally. These are not like where you have been, where the water swells and sinks without clear motive. You are pulled, almost gravitationally, towards a solidity you can barely remember. You know that the human body is, like, 65 percent water, and now you are terrified of reaching shore. You imagine your body as a dried-up husk; your soul has been squeezed out like toothpaste and lies there next to you. You scream three words. They are: ‘I feel fine.’ The previous is an excerpt of the narration from a large projected video piece within my thesis exhibition, This Isn’t Even My Final Form. This section of the video is paired with appropriated footage of a sunset on the Pacific Ocean with waves lapping up on shore. The narration is a poetic and metaphorical interpretation of various aspects of French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s idea of becoming and how it is expressed within humans in a contemporary world that is highly integrated with digital technologies. Deleuze plays a big part in my philosophical worldview, and thus similarly in my art practice and in this paper. Though he died before the mass integration of the Internet, his work represents for me the most lucid understanding of the effects of net culture on contemporary human life. I will discuss my usage of his concept of the rhizome, a concept which describes the basic structure of peer-to-peer networks, of the actual and virtual, and again, here, of “becoming.”