SelfSame
Abstract
Accompanying a solo gallery exhibition of painting and drawing, SelfSame explores the impact and influence of doubles, twins, and doppelgangers in visual art. Doubles, such as twins and doppelgangers, have an uncanny presence tied to loneliness, melancholy, and death. The presence of doubles in art not only questions the instability of identity and individuality, but calls into play personal reflection, and concepts of mortality. I draw on personal memories growing up as an identical twin to contextualize memory, narrative, and mythology as they are referenced within the artwork.
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)Department
Art and Art HistoryProgram
Studio ArtSupervisor
Nowlin, TimCommittee
Borsa, Joan; Fowler, GrahamCopyright Date
October 2014Subject
doubles
female grotesque
twins
visual art and the body