Browsing SUNY New Paltz Masters in Fine Art (MFA) Thesis Collection by Issue Date
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Mise-en-scène : MFA Thesis - Painting and Drawing
(2014-02-27)My work is an amalgam of personal experience, imagined narratives and a subconscious response to the infinite, available currents of information and imagery present in our world today. It celebrates color, humor and the absurd. -
AlterPieces: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2014-05)Focusing on the intertwining themes of fantasy, identity, and value, this thesis uses jewelry to explore the role of the alter ego. Participants were invited to share stories and descriptions of alternate identities arising ... -
The Tribe: Talismans, Amulets, and Objects of Remembrance: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2014-05)Motif-laden and anecdotal, my current works are a series of artifacts from The Tribe. The Tribe was born out of the West Desert and contemporary hunting culture, its shaman the rabbit and its oracle the magpie. Tapping ... -
Points of Departure: MFA Thesis - Painting & Drawing
(2014-05)I utilize both Architectonic structures and spacial relationships as metaphors for emotions I experienced coming from Iran to America and transitioning between two very different cultures. My working process combines both ... -
Souvenir: Capturing the Essence and Experience of Place: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2014-05)I am an artist, jeweler, and mapmaker of sorts. I craft three-dimensional, representations of particular locations using signs and symbols of my own design. I develop these abstract symbols from the information I gather ... -
Captain's proLOGue : MFA Thesis - Painting and Drawing
(2014-05)By developing a greater awareness of the subtle changes outside and inside of myself, can I come to better understand my interdependence with all humans, flora and fauna? Developing a practice that incorporates these ... -
Self / Conscious : MFA Thesis - Painting and Drawing
(2014-05)My art work explores the intimate contact of physical interaction, especially with one's self. Beyond the sexual nature of touch, the focus is on discovery, acknowledgment, embodiment and eventually ownership. This series ... -
Asiaticoside : MFA Thesis - Painting and Drawing
(2014-05)I am wandering around the things that intrigue me, the beginning of maturation, the remains of life—such as ashes and bones, the objects that link our lives with our deaths. I walk on, like a column of ants. I feel something ... -
RECUERDOS: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2014-05)My work revolves around the concept of memory, with a concentration in familial and collective memory. The objects I create have been affected by memory. The understanding of material choices, forms and construction have ... -
Forgiven: MFA Thesis - Painting
(2014-05)My work reflects an effort to channel memories and experiences onto the canvas. I paint about pain and internalized struggle where language is often inadequate to describe these effects. I am interested in creating ... -
In//Access//Able: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2014-05)I manipulate rods of steel and bronze in a way that is in conflict with the materials’ own properties. Through my work, through effort, I show the relation between a body in action and the material’s ability to be ... -
Climate of sight : MFA Thesis - Metal
(2014-05)Climate of sight is an archive that performs the question "what does rust want?" Transformed from a prompt generated by a proclivity toward the material itself, the aesthetic investigation began permeating other materials, ... -
Fragmentary Oceans : MFA Thesis - Ceramics
(2014-05)I am interested in how the inscription of our observations and gestures within the landscape defines our connection with the environment. My inspiration comes from nature as it represents a reflection of our interventions. ... -
Noesis, the Inner Nature of Body Expression : MFA Thesis - Ceramics
(2014-05)As we progress through time, language is generated and adapted through the ever-changing structures of society and technology. Like all languages, non-verbal communication has adapted and changed through time and culture. ... -
Stamp of Nature : MFA Thesis - Ceramics
(2014-05-28)The intent of this body of work began as a way to explore processes of making and to incorporate them with equal reverence and sensitivity to material into the making of functionally situated ceramic objects that play on ... -
Obscura: MFA Thesis - Sculpture
(2014-12)From the architectural element to Microsoft, windows are analogous to notions of the portal, the frame, and the screens of film, television, the computer and mobile phone. They represent a passage to other worlds, new ways ... -
Construction Documents for the Better Part of 1992, as Remembered: MFA Thesis - Ceramics
(2015-05)Human brains are predisposed to remember spatial information more easily than other forms, such as names, dates, instructions, or timelines. This phenomenon is the genesis of my sculptural process: if spaces are easier ... -
Rise of the Cyborg: MFA Thesis - Sculpture
(2015-05)The historical social injustice of disability identity creates traumatic experiences from institutionalized biomedical infrastructure. Art on this subject has been long overdue to empower the disabled minority group and ... -
Connect: MFA Thesis - Metal
(2015-05)"This work explores feelings of intimacy and vulnerability through devicelike objects that explore varying degrees of intense physical contact. With the act of contact comes the risk of collision, and with collision ... -
Eminent Terrain: MFA Thesis - Printmaking
(2015-05)It can be simple to take for granted how much land there is around us. There are fewer places now that are unseen and unpossessed, but, on the other hand, we also easily overlook the places we have already been. These ...