Line of Sight
Date
2024-09-26
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0009-0000-1391-8564
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Thesis
Degree Level
Masters
Abstract
This thesis exhibition explores depicting imaginary architectural spaces, assemblages and forms, while navigating the fine line in balancing analytical planning and thinking, with intuitive art making and subtle gestural evidence. This journey to find equilibrium in these two opposing ways of working is a reflection of not only who I am as an artist, but also how I operate as a person. Within the making of maquettes, sculptural acrylic paintings and ink drawings, the work focuses on light and shadow to reinforce 2D illusions of 3D architectural structure. This has allowed me to work in a way that serves my personal need for organization and clarity, as well as my desire to push up against and challenge the aforementioned.
The work stems from the art and design movements of Bauhaus and Anarchitecture, within a contemporary framework that I have developed through experimentation and lived experience. The goal by portraying abstracted and atmospheric architectural constructions that are made up of recognizable shapes and forms is that the viewer can create personalized connection points to their reality, while my techniques to exaggerate perspective, create illogical structure, allow for imperfection and abstract scale will pull the viewer into the realm of imaginary. This duality is not meant to frustrate or cause tension, but instead insist on the possibility that both can exist at the same time, in the same object. This exhibition builds upon the history of structural art and architecture, while clearly communicating the symbiotic relationship between imaginary and reality, through organized structural depictions treated in an improvised, reactive manner.
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Art, Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Bauhaus, Anarchitecture, Structure, Research, Ukrainian, Builder, Construction, Light, shadow
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Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Department
Art and Art History
Program
Studio Art