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Disappearing acts : making things + making things go away
A paper exploring ideas of sculpture as bio-remediator and a hub of communal activity
Building Resonance
Ben Gale-Schreck April 6th 2016 Abstract My art practice is greatly influenced by my familial relationships. Using sculpture and performance, the interaction between my work and its audience is essential. As a tributary connects bodies of water, I aim to connect the memories of my late father, and my own past, to the experiences ...
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 used to make my recent body of work in Seattle. My paintings and drawings are based on my studies out of the ...
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 focuses on the diffusion and use of the sculptures from the group of the Descent from the Cross through ...
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 in a multivalent emotional collaboration with it. I create immersive, site-specific installations in all ...
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 beginnings of civilization. I don’t intend to compose a survey of art history but it is important to understand ...
From the Ground Down
In this thesis I examine concepts of identity, time and space as I have investigated related influences and methodologies within my studio practice, during my time of study at the University of Washington, Seattle’s School of Art, Painting + Drawing Graduate Program. My thesis projects, exhibited at both the Henry Art Gallery ...
The Urbanization of Roman Municipia: Urban Development and Romanization in Umbrian Cities During the First Century BCE
This thesis examines the urban development of the Roman urbs during the first century BCE. The cities of southern Umbria provide a case study of a wider phenomenon occurring throughout Italy following the municipalization of the peninsula after the Social War. Using archaeology and contemporary cultural analysis, I examine ...
(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 looks for unseen potential hidden in the role of the individual, and the systems that house this ...
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 illuminated. I sift through these tiny fissures, noticing where the breakdown starts. They are the result ...