Art Theses and Dissertations

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    SHOULDER DEEP
    (2021) Zenisek, Heidi; Collis, Shannon; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This body of work reexamining my relationship to home-past, present, and future- involves seeing beyond the untarnished façade of memory to the unflattering reality, whose rough edges have been smoothed. With the realization that home no longer feels like home and carrying with me the guilt of abandoning my family heritage, I’ve embarked on a search for a new place to dwell. To help with this, I’m creating an obscure pseudoscience to extract information from the land. Coaxing out those indescribable, nearly incomprehensible elements of a place, tapping into what we don’t know and can’t see to guide me towards home, wherever that may be.
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    OPERATOR ADVANCES INTO BRUSH AT FULL THROTTLE
    (2020) Kunkel, Jeremy Thomas; Sham, Foon; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    I am compelled by the underlying conflicts that feed conditions into the contemporary landscape. Conflicts stemming absurdities such as abuse and neglect by fostering a false sense of disconnect into the sedentary individual. Structures of power, progression and control are hegemony framed as ideology that demands a mass and momentum; Like sedatives, dulling cognizant intuition, codified rhetoric is seductively buried into objects, digital feeds, and other means. This pulls the individual away from the reality of the world, creating a false landscape and redesigning individual habitus to align with a given narrative, or purpose, outside of the self. As these conflicts evolve in broad strokes through society into conditions, I am compelled to look beneath the surface, distilling the foundational corruption that I perceive. My work collides with and disrupts this momentary intersection, where objects and other processes, imbued with the language of society, are apprehended by individual intuition.
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    Wake Up, We're Not Asleep
    (2020) Robertson, Matthew Hunt; Richardson, William C; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Title of Thesis: WAKE UP, WE’RE NOT ASLEEP Matthew Hunt Robertson, Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, 2020 Thesis Directed By: Department Chair W.C. Richardson, Department of Art Wake Up, We’re Not Asleep is an exhibition of painted images and installations that explore the nature of memory. The following is an explanation of the inspiration and creative process that produced the work, as well as a description of the pieces themselves.
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    Mingling Echoes
    (2020) Koch, Lauren Grace; Craig, Patrick; Strom, Justin; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Mingling Echoes is an exhibition comprised of written word, alchemic reactions, found and repurposed objects, as well as sculptural forms of my own creation. All are abstractions from my subconscious, and they are blended with influential objects from my past in an intuitive manner. The following abstract gives a glimpse into my inspirations and personal experiences that have led to how I perceive memories are connected, intertwined, and ultimately, triggered. Additionally, I included two contemporary artists in whose work I find correlations with my own. The found and repurposed objects come from my personal collection that I have amassed over the past three decades from myriad places including my grand-parents’ property, gifts, flea markets, junk yards, antique/vintage shops, and roadsides.
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    Entropic Construction
    (2020) Thron, Michael Richard; Shasn, Foon; Art; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    ENTROPIC CONSTRUCTION Michael Richard Thron Master of Fine Arts 2020 Professor of Sculpture, Foon Sham, Department of Fine Art ABSTRACT “Entropic Construction,” is an exhibition of an installation at The University of Maryland College Park. In this written component to my Thesis, I address the combination of the theory of my creative practice, material research, object ontology, personal history, and inspirations for the exhibited work.