It’s my party and I’ll cry is a party-like installation centered around ideas of celebration, home and feminine identity. The title, taken from the 1963 song ‘it’s my party’ is meant to be a play on words. The work of this...
Soggetto:
Installations (Art), Femininity in art, Home in art e Life in art
When my grandmother, Emily Pearl Dorsey, passed away I thought life would never be the same.I was right. After years of investigating my memories, and recalling them through my artwork Ihave come to realize the true beauty of...
Parola chiave:
Installation Art, Leigh Ann Parrish, Memory, Teatime e Virtual
The social function of recording devices provides the subject of my thesis, and takes form in an installation titled Leisure Time for Everyone. The art work consists of four projected videos and one non-projected work shown on...
Soggetto:
Installations (Art), Video installations (Art), Amateur films -- Social aspects e Photography -- Social aspects
My studio practice investigates “Blackness” -- a term that provides both a positive and negative identity. “Blackness” is a reflection not only of the black community, but also of the entire world. My studio research includes...
Soggetto:
Arts -- Political aspects, Blacks in art e Silhouettes
My practice is grounded in problem solving, and inventing new opportunities for people to engage with the arts in public spaces. I make art to contribute to the growth of empathetic, optimistic and resilient communities. I...
Parola chiave:
Community Development, Community Engagement, Contemporary Art, Creative Problem Solving, Public Practice Art e Social Practice Art
Soggetto:
Public art, Community development, Social justice in art, Wit and humor in art e Drama
My installations begin with the curiosity of how we experience sound through material and form. Through intellectual play in the studio, experimentation with materials, and the deconstruction of objects, I find a deeper...
Parola chiave:
Fine Art, Installation, Interactive, Materiality, Sculpture e Sound Art
Soggetto:
Art, Installations (Art), Interactive art, Sculpture e Sound art
The thesis exhibition explores the use of memory and its effect on my evolution of a painting. Using the look of simplistic imagery executed on an intuitive level, I have created a body of work based on memories and daydreams...
The Absurd, in terms of existentialist philosophy, is born out of the conflictbetween the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the inabilityto find any (Absurdism). Through my work, I examine the...
Parola chiave:
Camus, phantom community, Ranciere, sculpture, time-based art e visual art
In my sculptural paintings, which I refer to as Hybrids, the covering/uncovering relationship between the beautiful and the repulsive elements is a metaphor for art’s attempt to reveal Truth, which Heidegger describes in terms...
Parola chiave:
Abstract, Art, Contemporary, Painting, Sculpture e Video
My thesis will be a piece of historical fiction based on the life of the fortune teller, Mayhayley Lancaster. Ms. Lancaster lived in west Georgia in the early 20th century and was visited from people all over the region. Known...
Parola chiave:
East Alabama, Fortune Teller, Mayhayley Lancaster, Oracle, Rural South e West Georgia
Soggetto:
Fiction, Historical fiction, Lancaster, Mayhayley, 1875-1955, Fortune-tellers e Oral history
