Thesis
Remembered spaces: An investigation of personal surroundings through the language of paint
Washington State University
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
05/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000004259
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/124709
Abstract
My paintings provide new perspectives to everyday spaces. In this body of work, I explore the following contrasting spatial themes, Distance & Closeness; Interior & Exterior; Cityscape & Landscape; Spiritual & Physical; and Presence & Absence. Included with the large-scale paintings are wooden cut-outs which extend beyond the canvas and serve as a visual and emotional extension of the painterly language. Through this series, my work strives to make the audience aware of their own bodies as a container of experiences which interacts with and are influenced by the complexity of spaces around them. This is pursued through the act of visually inverting flipping, turning, shifting, and rearranging personal surroundings. Within the structure of my painting practice I have created a lattice to interweave narrative, color theory, and personal reflection. These paintings contain images that are more than everyday spaces; these are emotionally and personally charged places that I have selected to paint. They are remembered spaces from my past that I have questioned, altered, revisited, and tried to see in a new way. What lies at the root of each of these images is how we simultaneously alter ourselves to our environment and how these spaces are altered by our presence.
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Details
- Title
- Remembered spaces
- Creators
- Stephanie Broussard
- Contributors
- Michael James Holloman (Advisor) - Washington State University, Fine Arts, Department of
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Fine Arts, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99900896416401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis