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Defense Date
2006
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/FTYR-R192
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Painting & Printmaking
First Advisor
Richard Roth
Abstract
With painting I find myself asking a lot of questions and finding very few answers, but I think it is a healthy and necessary process. This constant questioning parallels life outside of art for that reason. Life is full of unanswerable questions, and that is part of the reason why I make paintings. It is a strange way of accepting and dealing with the unknown. In this thesis I explain my relationship to the practice of painting. I reveal the actual processes I go through when making a painting, and investigate the content, or lack thereof, in my abstract paintings.
Rights
© The Author
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
June 2008
Comments
Part of Retrospective ETD Collection, restricted to VCU only.