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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 ... -
Some Place
University of Washington Abstract Some Place Benjamin Dunn Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Helen J. O’Toole School of Art, Art History and Design This thesis examines the role of specificity, ... -
Split Ends
I sit by the window, running my fingers through my hair. Getting to the ends, I hold them up to examine them. There is a golden afternoon light coming through the window. This is the magic time of day when every strand is ... -
Spoiled Landscapes
The Industrial Revolution ushered in a new stage of human history. It brought economic prosperity and dramatic technological advances, while it pushed the Earth into a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene, in which humans ... -
Stasis Suits
This project is an exploration of fragility and safety, using artificial protective membranes as material and form. The work is concerned with situations of ‘stasis’ - defined as a time loop, a medical term for a blockage, ... -
The State of My Painting Practice
Over the past two years, my painting practice has centered on botanical subject matter, particularly in relation to art historical precedents and the contemporary world. I have researched plant biology, which has given me ... -
Stress and angst of a material body: waste and disgust in the Built Environment.
Introduction / abstract Through both imagery of a grotesque body and though symbolism of industrial materials, my work reveals a visceral connection between a damaged body and a mutilated environment. This is a result of ...