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1 |  | 100 anos Revolution Mexicana 1910-2010 / 100 years MEXICAN REVOLUTION 1910-2010 | Luz del Carmen Paredes Almeida de White | This is a final project paper based on the celebration of the centennial of the Mexican Revolution 1910-2010. 100 aiios, Revolution Mexicana 1910 - 2010 is a multimedia exhibition inspired by the celebration of the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution. The exhibition is composed of a series of magne... | | 2010 |
2 |  | Deficient | Tyler Spurgeon | The work in Deficient is composed primarily of large-scale oil paintings, yielding from two bodies of work that have merged to become something greater than the sum of their individual scopes. The combined body of work is able to more clearly encapsulate the ideas I am interested in exploring. At th... | | 2012 |
3 |  | Ephemeral Tea | Thomas Betts | As Tom Betts researches his ontology through the creative act of art a hyperrealist oil painting is produced that alludes to society's consumption of time in an age where temporal states of awareness and interaction are governed by technology. He uses the subject of a teacup, a family heirloom that ... | | 2010 |
4 |  | Feeding the Hedonic Ghost | Holly Cobb | | | 2015 |
5 |  | Growing Pains | Hannah Nielsen | As an artist, I was also raised to love and revere painting, and I carry a passion for it. However, as I have grown and read, and gained a stronger appreciation for feminist and outsider art, craft has become a second passion that informs my practice. There is a thematic conflict here that reflects ... | | 2021 |
6 |  | InAppropriate | Eric Erekson | The subject I have chosen, the naked/nude, is relatable to most people. It brings to the foreground ethical questions that stir public dialog, wanted or not. The naked and the nude figure are unavoidably connected to us by nature, and then confused by the stresses of social, cultural, economic, and ... | | 2014 |
7 |  | The Interviews | Nolan Flynn | Through the combination of inquisitive mark-making and active painting techniques, my work lives as a visual record of the excitement and emotions I feel when I'm making art. While at the moment of creation, notations reflecting on the experience of painting coexist, while speaking different visual ... | | 2019 |
8 |  | Landscapes of a Tumultuous Mind | Tess Wood | This is an overview of my time in graduate school as well as before deciding to pursue; my graduate degree. It covers experiences both academic and non-academic that fueled by; decision to create a thesis project - centered on the practice of art as a therapeutic coping; mechanism for social anxiety... | | 2022 |
9 |  | Love & Punishment | Vojko Rizvanovic | The artwork presented in my thesis exhibition is a unique and cohesive body of work tightly connected with my still-fresh memory of my recent incarceration. In this exhibition I'm including artwork that I created during my time in prison, the halfway house, and on probation. My hope is to move viewe... | | 2012 |
10 |  | Manimals | Kristina Hines | In the way that it is easy to forget the canvas that supports a painting, it is easy for me to forget that my body is an animal body. It is similarly easy to forget the contours of my environment. Rooms, cushions, furniture, dirt, plants, asphalt, rocks all recede into the background as I pursue the... | | 2023 |
11 |  | Most of the Parts and Some of the Story | William G. Curtis | My final project, Most of the Parts and Some of the Story, concerns the pervading influence of particular events from my personal life and the exploration to find a way to effectively convey both important elements of these events as well as the state of mind they induced. Without relying on highly ... | | 2018 |
12 |  | The Pressure of Perfection | Mary Sauer | The pressure of perfection can either inspire great achievements or be like a debilitating disease. My research and art deal with how perfectionistic tendencies affect the lives of young to middle aged, American women. Perfectionism can lead these individuals to interpret social trends and styles as... | | 2014 |
13 |  | Prime Property | Thomas Liebich | This Final Project Paper is concerned with my art project Prime Property. The final exhibition of the project opened on August 24, 2007 and ran through September 14, 2007 in the Alvin Gittins Gallery of the University of Utah. In this paper, I'm attempting to shed light on my rational and intentions... | | 2008 |
14 |  | Reclaiming Motherhood: I Will Not Vanish | Holly Parson Nielsen | The purpose of this thesis is to describe the evolution of my MFA show, Reclaiming Motherhood: I Will Not Vanish. One of the primary themes of my show is shapeshifting: physically, emotionally, and mentally transitioning, changing form, becoming fluid, and finding resilience. The big question 1 had ... | | 2021 |
15 |  | Salt and Mortar | Douglas McGarren Flack | My work constructs a culture that lives in the salt flats. I desire to understand; why people do what they do and I achieve this by capturing my own experiences through; every day life and translating them into a visual representation on the salt flats. I choose; to paint these people in their conte... | | 2008 |
16 |  | Teeter Totter: project paper | Mary Sinner | For as long as I can remember I've been arranging shapes and playing with space. It began with sidewalk chalk and found objects arranged on the cement to create elaborate spaces. Then cannibalizing my grandma's architectural digest magazines and inventing new layouts on cheap lined paper with mounta... | | 2014 |
17 |  | Teeter-Totter | Natalie Oliver | | | 2018 |
18 |  | Thinking Inside the Black Box: Automatic Drawings of Celestial Bodies as Memory Metaphor | Lace Padilla | Even though memories may seem like snapshots of the past stored in our minds,; modern Cognitive Neuroscience has revealed that our memories are more closely; related to fiction than autobiography. We use this fiction to create an idea of ourselves; and a conception of the world we inhabit. Yet every... | | 2015 |
19 |  | Toward Figurative Transformation | Veera Kasicharernvat | The paintings selected for my M.F.A. show evolved during the last year of my graduate study. These paintings were a result of my continual search for the life force or essence of the object through the immediacy of paint. The four monotypes and four series of paintings represented a considerable shi... | | 2002 |
20 |  | Worthiness, Shame and Freedom | Bryce Billings | This paper outlines my process, research, and journey toward personal freedom via the language of visual art, during my MFA candidacy at the University of Utah. I include the directions, discoveries, and insights from my personal story arc, leading to my MFA thesis show. I believe the culmination of... | | 2022 |