Browsing Fine arts by Title
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Make Yourself a Demon
This is a work of research and an artwork. It explores antagonisms between frameworks and contents, broadly defined. Its own framework, academic research, is materially supported by public taxes and tuition from students. ... -
Making Time, Finding Space & Building Self
In order to understand the current moment, I have been researching and dissecting our collective human history along with my personal experiences. The former gives clarity to what makes us, us. The latter provides me with ... -
Memory, Space and Light
My thesis project explores ideas of space and light. It relates to my experience of growing up in a big city. Architectural structures play a vital role in the project. I create a personal space that contains memory and ... -
MONSTRO: Artworks Inspired by the Disabled Experience
My ability (or, inability) to come to terms with the disabled experience-- forms the core of my artistic practice. I create semi-autobiographical sculptures that serve as allegory for the effects, symptoms, or experiences ... -
My Dear Friend, Time
University of Washington Abstract My Dear Friend, Time Jing Xu Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Ellen Garvens Photomedia I like thinking that my work instigates performance; it encourages viewers to perform ... -
Neo-Pre-Raphaelitism: The Final Generations
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of seven young men who wanted to rebel against the teachings and orthodoxies of the Royal Academy. It was a short-lived movement, beginning in 1848 and ending in the early 1850s, ... -
Our Own Personal Hero's Journey
Young men often view themselves under the scope of a “Hero’s Journey” due to various forms of entertainment equating a “hero” with the traditionally masculine. Using drawing, painting, and printmaking I was able to explore ... -
Painting and Drawing: Mitigating The Space Between the Internal and External
The topic of my thesis is about the “extra-relational” characteristics of rhetoric, poetry, and visual arts . Painting from my point of view is a form of natural philosophy with very deep roots extending back to the ... -
Painting as Liturgy
There are a number of ways to find meaning, value, and purpose and I consider myself equally fortunate and cursed to have found painting as a means of seeing the world. Painting is as mysterious as it is blatant, healing ... -
Pastries, Pyramids, Promenading & Percussion: a journey toward alchemistical experiences as creative spirit a.k.a.: SYNKHRA, goddess of music & pie a.k.a.: some sort of hyper-detailed space-age mythology, full of fiber-swallowing girls and sun-kissed divorcees reminding everyone of their mortality
A thesis project employing digital video and sound to expose the ongoing intensities and ruptures experienced in Coley Mixan’s voice and body as a means to dispute (and parody) HER/their culture’s dominant norms and power ... -
A Peep through a Tube at a Leopard
This thesis paper explore my personal experience in relation to my artistic practices. -
"Play Clay"
Graduate school for me was a life experiment. My intentions to become an artist never were implied until my last year as an undergraduate when I finally decided this new direction of mine has yet to even begin. My ... -
Post Tomboy
This thesis paper gives context to the ceramic sculptures which make up the exhibition Post Tomboy. Communicated through clay, a material which expresses the malleability of the body and of the self, these sculptures ... -
Queer Architecture and the Facade (how it is used as a defense mechanism and a way of self-expression)
Within this written thesis and in conjunction with a physical practice I will explore the complex nature of identity as a universal concept throughout humanity. Examining how it develops and changes through time as a fluid ... -
Rationale & Outlook (or: Return of the Repressed)
This document, accompanying the exhibition in the Henry Art museum, is a celebration of the corridor as a protected species, as a transformational entity, as a space of self-reflection and a space I hold a lot of concern ... -
Revising Devotion: the role of wooden sculptures in affecting painting and devotion in the Late Medieval period in Italy (XII-XV century)
This dissertation offers a reconsideration of medieval wooden sculptures and a new perspective for understanding their role in affecting devotion and pictorial production in late medieval and Renaissance culture. My study ... -
(searching for shadows)
This thesis outlines the art practice of artist Paul Baughman. His work investigates the role of the individual as it relates to agency, power, and change, in the context of contemporary society. His research systematically ... -
Shorthanded
How can the development of personalized language be supported through a survey of visual experience? Interacting with any system asks us to formulate a reaction to the structures of reality. My research into participatory ... -
Sky View
University of Washington Abstract Sky View Heather Nibert Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Head Chair Helen O’Toole Painting and Drawing This thesis paper aims to communicate my thought process as well as my methods ...