Art Theses and Dissertations

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    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.
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    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………….
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    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.
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    Divination Method
    (2012) Glidden, Felicia Rose; Gavin, Dawn; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This thesis involves turning over internal images and narration of the mind. The work expands the gap between the seen and unseen and engages intuition through an immersion of the senses. This nonlinear approach with no beginning and no end parallels the experience of memory and creates sensorial connectivity.
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    Potential Disasters
    (2010) Watson, Jennifer Lynn Stewart; Ruppert, John; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The common conceptual thread woven through my work is a fascination with the point at which two things meet, thereby creating a third entirely new event. This ongoing theme of two forces and their point of contact speaks of weakness and controlled failure. Whether it is with feather filled, upholstery fabric forms pinned to the wall by bowed steel armatures, or tense steel rods sprung between wall and floor, my interest lies in exploring how the slow, kinetic action of one, affects the other. I construct three-dimensional drawings with steel rods that rely upon relationships with their surroundings. The starting and ending points of the rods are ambiguous, rather, they are a series of marks that link one point to another. Developed through self-created codes and natural genetic patterning from my personal history, each rod represents a relationship. These installations and three-dimensional drawings are part of the series entitled Potential Disasters. The work has potential for slip, change or collapse. I guide, direct, and balance elements, but once the installation is established, the resulting event is out of my control.
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    Potential Disasters
    (2010) Watson, Jennifer Lynn Stewart; Ruppert, John; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The common conceptual thread woven through my work is a fascination with the point at which two things meet, thereby creating a third entirely new event. This ongoing theme of two forces and their point of contact speaks of weakness and controlled failure. Whether it is with feather filled, upholstery fabric forms pinned to the wall by bowed steel armatures, or tense steel rods sprung between wall and floor, my interest lies in exploring how the slow, kinetic action of one, affects the other. I construct three-dimensional drawings with steel rods that rely upon relationships with their surroundings. The starting and ending points of the rods are ambiguous, rather, they are a series of marks that link one point to another. Developed through self-created codes and natural genetic patterning from my personal history, each rod represents a relationship. These installations and three-dimensional drawings are part of the series entitled Potential Disasters. The work has potential for slip, change or collapse. I guide, direct, and balance elements, but once the installation is established, the resulting event is out of my control.