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Apathy: Author: Dinkins, Jonathan; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: In this show, I'm commenting on the apathetic attitudes of our society that I find appalling. Our culture has become a thoughtless throw-away society with an unhealthy consumer drive. We are fixated on fast-everything along with its 'disposable' packaging. The willing and un-willing deterioration of the environment; seen through thoughtless (inhumane) killing for pleasure, unmanaged pest-control, littering, oil spills, and the desire to drill in refuge areas (ANWAR and East Front Glacier National Park); has created a consumer culture that relies on ignorance to excuse itself from environmen...; Download File | View full details

Inter-Dimension: Author: Anderson, Michael; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: My current body of work began just over three years ago based upon an obscure passage in a book by Ann Rice that described Archangels as being created before the universe was created, thus not being made of matter. I imagined the Archangels being made of pure energy. The thought of what this might look like has had a lasting influence on my work....; Download File | View full details

New Paintings: Author: Smith, Stephen Connolly; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: In the Lives, Vasari advises the artist to aim his arrows high, and above the mark which he intends to hit. In that way the aspiring artist compensates for the fact that the arrow seems always to fall short of the target. Vasari's advice was given to artists whose goal it was to represent nature and, particularly, the human body. And since Vasari felt that no artist would ever come as close to representing the body as perfectly as Michelangelo, one could do no better than to place the efforts of Michelangelo in their sights, and aim at surpassing him....; Download File | View full details

Painting the impulse: Author: Moffett, Jessica; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: My primary focus in my paintings is the male figure. These paintings have evolved in a non linear progression. I went from representational to partly abstract and back to representational infused with sequential art. During this development, I decided to paint my figures to resemble comic book characters of my own creation and paint them to represent emotional qualities of spontaneity and dualities of my psyche....; Download File | View full details

Perceptions: Author: Muldoon, Dara Anne Hartman; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: My work is about the tension between the beauty of the female body and the underlying currents of dissatisfaction with that body, a stress stemming from a behavior that is enculturated in women from an early age and over many generations. The complex and diverse issues related to the way women feel about their bodies are revealed through a woman's obsessions; ranging from the annoyance of the imperfections on the skins surface to the internal desire to alter or even harm the body....; Download File | View full details

Placebo: Author: Hunter, William Hawkins; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: I view my thesis show as an opportunity to present a body of work unified by process, ideas and context. The show consists primarily of collage, including photography, and collected objects. The exhibition shows the dual roles of the artist as autonomous creator and, as exploiter of the collective history of artistic traditions. The exhibition also affirms the idea that every detail within the space should contribute to it's meaning and impact. Evidence of the way the work is created has been selected to accompany the work. By showing stages of development the viewer is afforded the opportuni...; Download File | View full details

Machines for a Perfect World: Author: Tullar, Christopher Robin; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: Wonder, optimism, and discovery are to me the most positive and exciting aspects of exploration of any kind. These are the central themes in Machines for a Perfect World. My main goal in putting this show together is to create pieces that incite these emotions and ideals in the viewer. The visual languages I utilize to this end are those of science fiction, industry, and architecture - aesthetic influences of mine from as far back as I can recall. Science and more specifically, the fictional accounts surrounding the future of scientific discovery have a particular resonance that has always cap...; Download File | View full details

Sculptures and Prints: Author: Downing, Lori Francis; Date: 2004-12-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: Avraham Yekel was a survivor of Nazi and Soviet prison camps. He was asked what was one mistake he hoped his audience would never make. He answered: "You must never make the mistake of thinking that, because you are educated that you are also civilized." That, he said was the error made by his generation of the 1920's and 1930's: that higher education meant higher levels of humanity. World War II, in which fifty million people were annihilated, shattered that myth forever. I understand the importance of love for humanity. I try to open my eyes and be aware of what is happening ar...; Download File | View full details

Otherwise: Author: Carpenter, Julia Lauren; Date: 2006-12-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: The nine, largescale paintings of my MFA Thesis show, "Otherwise," are artifacts from a year long exorcism of grief and anger over my young sister's terrible, yet merciful death. I painted my sister's image through the filter of my own emotion exploring scale, color, and the gestural mark. In addition I painted her son, whose image links the past to the future....; Download File | View full details

Passages: Author: Kissel, David Andrew; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: This body of work is intended to inspire and remind people of the unencumbered imagination we once had as children. To remind us of the sense of fun and adventure that accompanied each new day of learning. To inspire us to realize that the dreams we dreamed as children are still tucked away inside us, and that we could believe in them again. Most of all, this work is intended to create smiles, a reminder that each day has its own simple pleasures....; Download File | View full details

GODANDER2MALS: Author: Harrison, Daniel Adam; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: As humans, we exist on the brink of solid matter (earth) and endless space (space) and are an incredibly small part of all that exists. My primary influences are the mystery of the universe that we are a part of, and the notion that outer space has no limits. A lot of my days are spent outside in extraordinary and unpredicted places observing and enjoying the simplicity of existing in a natural setting. The mental peace evoked by nature motivates my desire to create colorful lithographs depicting environments and creatures that are unknown in the natural world. These prints draw the viewer awa...; Download File | View full details

Translations: Author: Rude, Mathew Ben; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: Form, line, and surface are the catalysts for my work. I have been constructing nonrepresentational forms from clay that I see as translations. They are reflective of my conversation with the material and a record of the firing. The pieces in the installation do not reference any specific object. They are my attempt to explore volume, line, scale, and repetition in objects designed to translate the process of wood firing. They are about physicality, passion, and process. Each object becomes an individual variation of the total process. Most forms and objects created in art have some reference ...; Download File | View full details

Utilidor: Author: Hauck, Brian Aaron; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: A utilidor is a system of aboveground pipes or tubes used to carry electricity and water in regions with yearly permafrost. These networks are made up of a limited number of recurring elements that rely on one another to complete the needed task. My sculptures are complex entanglements that are constructed in a similar fashion and direct the eye as the utilidor directs electricity or water....; Download File | View full details

Technology: Pursuing the Dialectical Image: Author: van den Bosch, Craig David; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: I first typed the words utopian image into Google... started finding the term dialectic associated with them, then dialectical, then I typed in utopian image dialectical...then I found Walter Benjamin and the dialectical image. This was how I acquired the title for my show. It just seemed to fit what I was trying to coalesce in my mind. After having researched various aspects of technology and how it has affected the body and will continue to do so today and into the future, I tried to find a central theme. I tried to pinpoint the root of our exponential technological pursuit. It occurred to m...; Download File | View full details

Accumulated Response: Author: Bentz, Heather Heise; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: My paintings are abstractions of the repeated patterns, shapes and structure I see and experience every day. My inspiration comes in many forms: found objects dropped or discarded by others, plowed and planted acres of soil, fence posts along edges of fields, blasts of train whistles and the silent spaces between them. All share similarities of repetition-the positive/negative relationship of reoccurrences with a cadence of structure and order but which never can be fully captured or contained....; Download File | View full details

Some One: Author: Heaston, Paul Bradford; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: In the wake of the emergence of the photographic portrait over the last century, I aim to examine the current relationship between the painted portrait and photography; specifically, the use of the photograph as a tool that can inform and transform the investigation of identity in painting. While a great deal of my interest lies in translating the photographic image into paint, I am more interested in what the nature of my process can reveal about the people I know. I believe my intimacy with the sitter turns the process of transcribing a clinical and often unflattering photographic examinatio...; Download File | View full details

Threading Between Worlds: Author: Renner, Stephanie Rose; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: The artworks in this series are my accounts of a deaf woman's experience in a world that constantly pulls her back and forth between two very divergent sides. The images on each panel tell stories about my subjective experiences and in narrating them, I chose images that are easy to recognize and to interpret about my life as a deaf woman and the obstacles I often face in reconciling the worlds of the deaf and the hearing. The themes of unity and balance are also present, and speak to both my affinity with quilt making in both traditional and modern styles and my personal history of constantl...; Download File | View full details

Covered: Author: Taylor, Caleb Josiah; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: My investigation of painting has led to creating abstractions that refer to internal and external anatomical forms. Microscopic images initiated a dialogue that guided each paintings reference to the body. Evolving from a figurative background, my work has sequentially advanced through the construction of a personal visual language which changed from a perceptual investigation to an intuitive, visceral analysis. This progression allowed a thorough study of abstract elements and their formal potential....; Download File | View full details

Personal Narratives: Author: Turbuck, Christopher James; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: This body of work is comprised of autobiographical narratives from my everyday experiences. The conflict in the stories comes both from without and within: awkward, frustrating situations force perplexed responses from the protagonist (me) even as I struggle to maintain internal balance between combative contradictory thoughts and impulses. I adopt many conventions from comic books. They allow me to freely incorporate text and image into the same pictorial space. Additionally, the comic book form possesses associations with "low art" that are valuable to my work. Comics are enterta...; Download File | View full details

Atlantis Unbound: Author: Hiris, Lori E.; Date: 2009-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: The data derived from the study of the hereditary traits in Drosophila-Melanogaster remind the viewer of the tremendous potential in technology and genetic engineering. My Installation is witness to this ever-changing technology and how it shapes our culture, history, and politics. Dreams and nightmares coexist in this installation and my intent is merely to invite the viewer to consider the consequences. Inheritance in the age of database culture and the sovereignty of the Algorithm conspires to envision utopia - a New Atlantis: Bound and Unbound....; Download File | View full details

Ah!: Author: Nicklas, Andrew Bliss; Date: 2009-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: Ah! This show is a physical explanation of discovery - an attempt to better understand the role of contemporary hand thrown pottery and what it means to make it. A hand thrown pot can contain nourishment as well as it can provide it. Pottery can infuse artful practice and a direct relationship to the producer into everyday objects. It is the potter's responsibility to continue to push form and surface to make the best pots possible. Well crafted handmade objects support the argument for locality and autonomy, which give them greater value in a contemporary context rooted in ambiguous commodity...; Download File | View full details

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