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Lately We Have Been Here Just About All The Time Even When We Are Someplace Else We Should Be Here Too
As a way of approaching the work which was exhibited at the Henry Art Gallery as part of the 2019 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition, this text outlines a film, and within that film a discussion of the ... -
Leopoldo Méndez, revolutionary art, and the Mexican print: in service of the people
(1999)This dissertation situates the Mexican printmaker, Leopoldo Mendez (1902--1969), as a leading member of the Mexican art world of the twentieth century, revealing his central role in Mexican art and politics. His significance ... -
Living Objects
During the last two years I have found new ways to develop and maintain relationships with others through my relationships with objects. Understanding the purpose of the object, the functionality, the way it exists within ... -
Living on Death
My work pertains to notions of documentary. The slaughterhouse and events that transpire within constitute the untouched, given center of my work. Within these limits I am free to interpret, recreate and compose such ... -
Lonely Mountains
This thesis examines cuteness as it relates to care, culture, and manipulation. Using both scientific studies and cultural theories, this thesis aims to understand these elements of cuteness and relate them to the artwork ... -
Look at Myself
I have questions that need answers and I had questions yet to ask. That stumped me for a while. What would I look for as an artist and what would I do with the answers discovered? In this thesis, I will address why these ... -
Love is A Time Based Medium a multimedia installation exploring economies of aural and visual portraiture
The purpose of this study was to make portraits of my loved ones from life and to record the exchange between artist and model for the archive. A series of portraits were drawn from life, mostly in an environment controlled ... -
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 ...