Art Theses and Dissertations
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Item Attend(2019) Isenberg, Monroe Joseph; Keener, Cy; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Is there a space between the animate and inanimate? Where is consciousness held? Exploration of these questions guides my practice and research. Art-making drives my effort to explore the intangible, mysterious place where matter and consciousness collide. My thesis work is an attempt to translate the inexplicable mystery encountered in this unseen space between— the moments that Martin Buber describes as the “I and Thou”— into elemental forms and installations. By investigating the invisible, I endeavor to make the unnoticed—visible and excavate the overwhelming connectedness that is present in this world. This Thesis is a reflection of the philosophy I have learned and artwork I have created to contemplate our connected reality.Item More Level(2019) Hurley, Mason Van Alstyne; Sham, Foon v; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)More Level is an exhibition of sculptures in The University of Maryland Art Gallery. The three sculptural works explore ideas in form, craft, space, and time. In the following, I describe my processes, personal experiences and thought patterns as I create art. I also provide descriptions of the work in the show.Item The Crown: Paradise Reclaimed(2018) Basch, Rebecca; Keener, Cy; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The story of my life and the story of my art are intrinsically connected. Through a personally authored story, that I identified as possessing the universal framework of the monomyth (as identified by Joseph Campbell), I became interested in the universal tendencies of humankind. My work synthesizes disparate topics into a new narrative space where parallels are drawn between the personal, extrapersonal, and the universal. In the project The Crown: Paradise Reclaimed, the quest for the ultimate boon, is examined through the stories of myself and others and centers around three locations: Baltimore, Utah, and Iceland.Item Regarding the nature of things(2017) Hird, Kevin; Ruppert, John; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The works discussed and shown herein are an investigation into the properties and possibilities of materials. Prompted by a sense of playfulness and exploration, these works build upon and combine the fields of Dadaism and Minimalism in a manner that explores the conceptual properties of material. This exploration takes places through destructive processes, exposing the interior of solid matter to a thoughtful consideration of its development, underlying structure, and the effect of forces being applied to the materials, both internally and externally.Item Mal-Content(2017) Brooks, Curtis W.; Richardson, William C; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Mal-Content is a project culminating in an exhibition including several laser-cut etchings, a large vinyl application to the wall, and a small book of symbols. This document consists of visual documentation and an edited transcript of a self-interview about the genesis, intellectual basis, and critical and material realities of the project. Mal-Content explores the nature of information as it is carried, rather than what it carries, through application of successive processes of technological and manual manipulations.Item REBORN IN ULTRAMARINE(2017) Wohrer, Dominique Andree; Sham, Foon V; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Because of my personal history, I express myself through color, the language of the non-verbal. Ultramarine means beyond the sea, a reference to the foreign origin of lapis lazuli……….The thesis discusses the idea of color in sculpture, and its impact on the brain………….Item Love-cheek, Azteca(2015) Hamami, Aydin; Klank, Richard; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)The act of painting is one of a physical, visceral nature, in which the intangible is made tangible, removed from our world in such a way as you allow us an abstract viewership, and intimately tied to our own physicality. The mind of the painter is one that must be simultaneously present and absent from the world of the moment. The following is a recounting of events that have led to the understanding of studio practice that my work exemplifies today, and a dissection of the significance of the actions of the artist within the studio space as well as in relation to the art object at its end.Item Median(2015) Hackett, Rob; Craig, Patrick; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This thesis discusses the idea of median as it relates to both a physical barrier as well as a reference to the center point along a set of information. The navigation of the built environment and the memories generated by the interactions with it inform my current body of sculptural and print work.Item Mutatio(2015) Williams, Stephen; Klank, Richard; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)There is a separation between the seen and the unseen, material and immaterial, sacred and mundane. My creative work explores this divide. It begins with the found object; from there my interest focuses on the transformation that occurs when object becomes image. Through the use of photography, combining of images and shift in scale, these objects become decontextualized and dematerialized, furthering the ambiguity around prior function, material and value. The camera is both microscope and paintbrush in the way in which the resulting works expose levels of details that, when enlarged beyond life-size, begin to take on characteristics of a painted image.Item SIMULTANEITY: On Urges and Origins(2014) Evans, Lauren Frances; Collis, Shannon; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)All creative acts can be seen as intermediary attempts to bridge the gap between the known and the unknowable. In this thesis, I discuss a number of material and immaterial interfaces (e.g., the body, holes, desire, mankind, sacred sites) - all of which concern humanity and the divided nature of our existence in space, time, and matter. Prompted by urges and the allure of origins, my creative work addresses the body as a site of irresistible paradox. Inverting the boundaries between what is and what is not, it continually draws attention to the void of longing.