DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/YKK6-J784
Defense Date
2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Fine Arts - Painting
First Advisor
Richard Roth
Second Advisor
Richard Roth
Abstract
The following is an exploration of ideas and themes related to my studio work, past and present, concrete and aspirational. I approach painting as an experience of pleasure and as a mode of resistance and critique. I will discuss how my work is aligned with many of the themes found in the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s. I will also identify alliances that my work has with DIY, networks, and the contemporary art scene as discussed in Lane Relyea’s "Your Everyday Art World". I describe my mode of working in the context of "workable resistance," which Jan Verwoert defines in his essay, "Exhaustion and Exuberance: Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform" (Verwoert, 19). And lastly, I detail how my recent work embodies the concept of the singular multitude as outlined in "Being Singular Plural" by Jean-Luc Nancy.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
May 2014