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Filters: Collection: "ir_mfafp" Year End: 2016
| Title | Creator | Description | Department | Date | ||
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Tailings | Larkin, Vincent Stuart | This paper describes the research leading up to and a description o f the MFA thesis exhibit titled "Tailings." The exhibit addresses the increasing saturation o f our environment with pollutants, toxins, and manufacturing waste through sculptural work that contains or represents the physical ... | Art/Art History | 2008-05 |
| 77 |
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Tapisseries | Prevot, Meredith Louise Maynes | Patterns appear throughout the history of visual art. It is on printed or woven cloth that these patterns are most ubiquitous, and at the same time, least noticed. Over the past few years, textile design and decorative arts patterning have become a significant interest in my artwork, especially the ... | Art/Art History | 2007-12 |
| 78 |
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Timepieces | Dow, Valarie | This work involves my exploration of the beauty of places and objects which contain a human history and illustrates my interest in the passing of time. I illustrate this with the use of reflective surface. I hope to say that our past brings a richness to our present and deserves honor. The compil... | Art/Art History | 1999-12 |
| 79 |
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Tom Betts & ephemeral realism | Betts, Thomas John | 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 ... | Art/Art History | 2010-05-05 |
| 80 |
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Toward figurative expressionism | Kasicharemvat, Veera | 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 consid... | Art/Art History | 2002-08 |
| 81 |
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The ultimate American icon is the astronaut: who is more heroic or more alone? | Rice, Andrew | My work is about the human condition and specifically about loneliness and melancholy. Who or what is the subject of that loneliness? While I believe in most art as stemming from yourself, from within and somewhat autobiographical, I am confident that I am commenting on people and humanity as a who... | Art/Art History | 2012-12 |
| 82 |
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Van Chu photographic brushstroke | Chu, Van | Photographic Brushstroke, a term that has been an oxymoron, is no longer. Being a visual artist is in many ways like being a singer, if you sound like everyone else then why even bother singing. If you go to my exhibition with a predetermination of what photography is, you will not find a single ... | Art/Art History | 2010-05 |
| 83 |
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Where things belong | Gawle, Benjamin Joseph | The following is a written account supporting the sculptures in my MFA Thesis Exhibition. Each piece consists of ceramic objects along with ceramic containers to house such objects. These containers protect, present, and preserve the objects in an organized way. The containers are also labe... | Art/Art History | 2006-06 |
| 84 |
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Wolfenbuttel Sachsenspiegel: a codicological and pictorial examination of a mnemonic morror | Joyner, Daniell Beth | The Wolfenbiittel Sachsenspiegel is a fourteenth-century German lawbook containing the territorial and feudal laws of Saxony. Its pages display two columns with the legal text on the right and the multi-colored images on the left. In this study I explore how the images supplemented the text, and ... | Art/Art History | 1998-08 |
| 85 |
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Woodfired ceramics | Christiansen, Eric | This project is a study of the woodfired ceramic process. It is a personal journey that brought me back to the potters wheel in search of forms that could best respond to the effects of the flame and ash. A desire to recreate the elements typical in extended multiple day fires led me to find meth... | Art/Art History | 1996-06 |
| 86 |
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Zan art | Yamanashi, Keiko | This world in which we live changes blindingly fast, never stopping. Photography is the only method for me to grab a moment in time and to leave it to posterity as a record of truth. There are nowadays many photographers who do not take photographs of objects as they are but who add special effec... | Art/Art History | 2004-12 |