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Changing images of women: Taisho-period paintings by Uemura Shoen (1875-1949), Ito Shoha (1877-1968), and Kajiwara Hisako (1896-1988)
(1990)Uemura Shoen, Ito Shoha, and Kajiwara Hisako were Nihonga artists in Kyoto who specialized in bijinga, or paintings of women. This dissertation discusses the lives and art of these three women painters with a particular ... -
Christina the Astonishing
What is the nature of pain and suffering? How does the body define the human condition? How does psychological makeup affect our identity and perception? The objective of my studio practice is to use painting and drawing ... -
Comorbidity
ABSTRACT This thesis document analyses and contextualizes my solo thesis exhibition, Comorbidity, through providing photo documentation of the work, a reflection on personal experiences, social phenomena, contemporary art, ... -
Coping with life in the Absurd
This thesis outlines the art practice and ideas of Daniela Mora. Her work investigates the role of audience and art in relation to tourism, cultural practices, and authority. Through the use of video installation, theater, ... -
Crossing the Border: Identity Issues in the Scope of Representation
After photography first emerged in the early 19th century, it has developed as a technology that enhances human ability to preserve visual information and challenges the tradition of painting as the fundamental apparatus ... -
deity, humanity and materiality
This thesis is about the process of making the art work for the thesis show. It includes the original source of why I chose this subject and how I developed this idea for the work. The source of the idea is form my personal ... -
Did you park in the parking lot? Perhaps our parking lot is a bit too large, considering the number of cars using it.
In order to produce an artwork for the Master of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery the artist has chosen to consider the institution of the Henry Art Gallery itself and the institution of the University ... -
Dilemmatic moments of abundance society
This an analyzing writing about a two-piece painting series I made for my MFA thesis exhibition. The series is titled “What are they doing?” I will talk about how the paintings were developed and how both images visualize ... -
Disappearing acts : making things + making things go away
A paper exploring ideas of sculpture as bio-remediator and a hub of communal activity -
EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN
Identity is both the self-image and the social construct that guides our behavior. We see ourselves through the concepts others have of us and the groups we belong to, and perform identities under the impact of the surrounding ... -
Enantiodromia
Multiplicity and the bridging of opposing realities is a central theme in my work. This multiplicity speaks to a physical disconnection between places as well as to a mental state of disassociation. Through process I enable ... -
Evolving Definitions of Power Relations in the United States through Language as Form
Each work has specific content that is derived from absorbing writing from scholars. These writings vary in specificity but relate to larger subjects of interest. My overarching areas of study include form as content, ... -
Experience of Place
My work in painting, drawing, and sculpture has been informed by an interest in human presence and architecture in the landscape as well as my own experiences of place. I present some of my history leading up to my thesis ... -
Exploring the Intersection of Race, Adoption, and Evangelical Culture Through a Studio Practice
Media and media consumption is based on perception. Perception comes with biases that exist from upbringing, personal belief systems, and many other things. Exploring the intersections of those ideas is even more exciting. ... -
Eye and I: Assumptive Folly in the I and the Institution
Following is a discussion of bias in the visual processing system and the complex, intertwined relationship between both physiologically determined and socially/culturally determined forms of bias. Through an examination ... -
Faces of Humanity: Painting Portraits of Immigrant Workers
Through the years, immigration to the United States has significantly increased. Immigrants have been drawn to this country by attractive wages and pushed by the poverty in their home countries. Today, immigrant minority ... -
Fairy Tales of the Anthropocene: Drawing Stories for a New Age of Forest Fairy Tale
What would a contemporary fairy tale set in the forest look like? In European folktales, the forest serves as a setting for morality lessons, social commentary, magical encounters with animals, and often violent or unsettling ... -
Fat and Sassy A Performance Masked as a Thesis
This thesis has taken on many forms using both technical and conceptual structures. Firstly, out of pure refusal to produce during a global pandemic with very little guidance, access, and support from any institution ... -
Finding Value & Cutting Up Meaning
I am allowing this written thesis to act as an explanation of my concepts and personal journey through the University of Washington's Graduate Drawing and Painting MFA program and through creating my thesis work, a series ... -
First Principles and Ordinances
Garments/fabric are a central theme in my work. Their inherent intimacy and privacy conceals and signifies both the absence/loss and presence of the wearer. In the studio, I investigate in a ritualistic and meditative ...